Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Education Secretary wants U.S. schools open, offers no safety plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Education Secretary Betsy DeVos kept up the administration's push to reopen U.S. schools in the fall on Sunday, but failed to embrace any blueprint - including federal health gu...
Jul 12, 2020
Foreign doctors’ hopes for fast-track pandemic licenses in Canada fading
By Moira Warburton TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's effort to fast-track careers of foreign-trained doctors to meet growing patient numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in only about two doze...
Jul 12, 2020
Lebanese Christian cleric seen to criticize Hezbollah, allies over crisis
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's top Christian cleric stepped up criticism of the Iran-backed Shi'ite group Hezbollah and its allies without naming them on Sunday, saying Lebanese rejected being isolated ...
Jul 12, 2020
Turkey revokes experience requirement for central bank deputy governor
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has revoked a requirement that central bank deputy governors have 10 years prior experience and dropped a rule that banks set aside 20% of annual profit, the official gazet...
Jul 12, 2020
500,000 Hong Kongers cast ‘protest’ vote against new security laws
By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens queued to cast ballots over the weekend in what the Chinese-ruled city's opposition camp says is a sy...
Jul 12, 2020
Pope ‘very pained’ by decision to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum into mosque
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday he was hurt by Turkey's decision to make Istanbul's Hagia Sophia museum a mosque, the latest religious leader to condemn the move. "My thoughts go ...
Jul 12, 2020
Touchless: How the world’s busiest airport envisions post-COVID travel
By Tracy Rucinski CHICAGO (Reuters) - With COVID-19 ravaging the aviation industry, airlines and airports worldwide are reining in costs and halting new spending, except in one area: reassuring pandem...
Jul 12, 2020
Trump’s push to reopen schools part of bid to boost suburban standing
By James Oliphant and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's demand for U.S. schools to fully reopen this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic is central to an emerging re-elect...
Jul 12, 2020
India star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan coronavirus-positive, joining father in law, husband
By Nupur Anand MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter tested positive for the new coronavirus on Sunday, a day after her father-in-law and top Indian actor Amitab...
Jul 12, 2020
Hamburg sex workers demand Germany’s brothels reopen
By Fabian Bimmer HAMBURG (Reuters) - Prostitutes demonstrated in Hamburg's red light district late on Saturday evening demanding that Germany's brothels be allowed to reopen after months of closure to...
Jul 12, 2020
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