Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
‘Polishing the gun’: China, U.S. tensions raise Taiwan conflict fears
By Ben Blanchard and Yew Lun Tian TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Numerous Chinese and U.S. military exercises, Taiwan missiles tracking Chinese fighters and plummeting China-U.S. ties make for a heady coc...
Aug 26, 2020
Navalny ally says only Putin could have authorised suspected poisoning
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior ally of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday he believed only President Vladimir Putin could have authorised the suspected poisoning of the outspo...
Aug 26, 2020
Police arrest 64 in Louisville anti-racism protests
(Reuters) - Police arrested more than 60 people on Tuesday in a protest march in Louisville, Kentucky, organized for Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in March by police officers who burst into her...
Aug 26, 2020
Shots fired on third night of Wisconsin unrest over police shooting of Black man
(Reuters) - Three people were shot, one of them fatally, as gunfire broke out on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on the third straight night of unrest sparked by the police shooting of a Black man,...
Aug 26, 2020
Police declare gathering outside Portland’s City Hall a ‘riot’, order crowd to disperse
(Reuters) - Police in the U.S. city of Portland late on Tuesday declared a gathering of hundreds of protesters outside City Hall as a riot, ordering the crowd to disperse or face arrest. "To those on ...
Aug 26, 2020
Laura swirls toward U.S. Gulf Coast as category 2 hurricane
(Reuters) - Laura has strengthened into a category 2 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, rapidly intensifying as it barrels towards the coasts of Louisiana and Texas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (...
Aug 26, 2020
Banks in bonus balancing act as economies shrink but markets boom
By Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - Major international banks may still pay out big bonuses to high flyers this year even as the pandemic saps the global economy, as fears of losing talent to rivals d...
Aug 26, 2020
Republican convention touts Trump trade deals, despite mixed results
By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - Speakers at the Republican convention on Tuesday night touted President Donald Trump's "tough-on-trade" approach as a key argument for his re-election in November, alth...
Aug 25, 2020
Hong Kong police arrests two pro-democracy lawmakers in relation to 2019 protests
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Police have arrested two Hong Kong opposition lawmakers in relation to anti-government protests in July last year, one of whom was suspected of rioting, the Democratic Party said...
Aug 25, 2020
Father of youngest NZ mosque victim tells shooter there is no forgiveness
By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The father of slain three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, the youngest victim in the New Zealand mosque shootings, told the white supremacist who gunned down his son t...
Aug 25, 2020
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