Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Special Report: U.S. rearms to nullify China’s missile supremacy
By David Lague HONG KONG (Reuters) - As Washington and Beijing trade barbs over the coronavirus pandemic, a longer-term struggle between the two Pacific powers is at a turning point, as the United Sta...
May 06, 2020
UK has drawn up 3-stage plan for easing coronavirus lockdown: The Times
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom has drawn up a three-stage plan to ease the coronavirus lockdown that was first imposed at the end of March, The Times newspaper said. The government must review ...
May 06, 2020
Illinois county to probe earlier deaths from heart attacks, pneumonia for COVID-19
(Reuters) - Health officials in the U.S. state of Illinois' Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago, will probe deaths involving heart attacks and pneumonia for indications of COVID-19 as far ...
May 06, 2020
Judge reinstates New York presidential primary canceled by state
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has reinstated a presidential primary canceled last week by New York state, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, over concerns that voting would have b...
May 06, 2020
U.S. marines rotation to Australia to go ahead under strict COVID-19 measures
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - A delayed rotation of U.S. Marines to a defence base in Australia's northern city of Darwin will go ahead based on strict adherence to COVID-19 measures, Australia...
May 06, 2020
Facility near Pyongyang airport linked to North Korea’s missile programme, U.S. think-tank says
By Sangmi Cha and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - A new facility near Pyongyang International Airport is almost certainly linked to North Korea's expanding ballistic missile programme, according to a rep...
May 05, 2020
Pandemic pushes some Iraqis, broken by conflict, into poverty
By John Davison BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When shops and homes shutter at curfew, some Iraqis in this Baghdad district say it reminds them of past traumas that destroyed lives and livelihoods: sectarian dea...
May 05, 2020
South Korea spy agency says no signs North Korea’s Kim received heart surgery: Yonhap
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - There are no signs North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received heart surgery when he disappeared from state media for three weeks, but he reduced public activity due to ...
May 05, 2020
Five-year-old stopped on U.S. highway wanted to buy Lamborghini, police say
(Reuters) - A trooper stopping a car with a suspected "impaired driver" on a U.S. highway on Monday was bemused to find a 5-year-old in the driver's seat, the Utah Highway Patrol tweeted. After seeing...
May 05, 2020
Georgia grand jury to consider charges in shooting of unarmed black man
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) - A Georgia county prosecutor said on Tuesday he would ask a grand jury to decide if charges should be filed against a white former law enforcement officer and his son in the...
May 05, 2020
