Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Mosques and schools to reopen in Iran’s low-risk areas
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran plans to reopen mosques and schools in areas that have been consistently free of the coronavirus as President Hassan Rouhani's government starts to ease restrictions that were a...
May 03, 2020
UK royal Kate calls midwives and parents to highlight mental health issues
LONDON (Reuters) - British royal Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has video-called a number of new parents, midwives and other maternity service professionals to promote her message of mental health aw...
May 03, 2020
Israel’s Supreme Court discusses Netanyahu’s fate as prime minister
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court began a two-day hearing on Sunday to determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been indicted for corruption, will be allowed to form a n...
May 03, 2020
With fighter jets and army bands, India’s military thank health workers
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's air force flew aircraft low over more than a dozen cities on Sunday, part of a nationwide campaign by the armed forces to thank healthcare workers and other essential ser...
May 03, 2020
Singapore looks to ramp up factory activities as virus curbs ease
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will progressively ramp up its manufacturing activities, its minister of trade and industry said on Sunday, with the city-state looking to restart its economy as corona...
May 03, 2020
North and South Korea exchange gunfire across border at guard post
SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea exchanged gunfire around the South's guard post early on Sunday, raising tension a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended an almost three-week absence ...
May 02, 2020
Roche gets FDA emergency use approval for COVID-19 antibody test
(Reuters) - Roche Holding AG received emergency use approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an antibody test to help determine if people have ever been infected with the coronavirus, t...
May 02, 2020
False bomb threat temporarily closes Anchorage airport to arrivals
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The Anchorage airport, Alaska's largest, temporarily shut Saturday to inbound traffic because of a bomb threat against a China Airlines cargo flight bound...
May 02, 2020
Trump hails Kim reappearance, but North Korea denuclearization prospects bleak
By David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday welcomed the reemergence of North Korea's Kim Jong Un after weeks of speculation about his health...
May 02, 2020
U.S. aviation sector cuts more jobs amid travel meltdown
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ongoing U.S. travel crisis is causing thousands of job cuts as the aviation sector waits for passengers to return to the skies but braces for years of lo...
May 02, 2020
