Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
China, India’s COVID-19 vaccinations to stretch to late 2022 – study
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - COVID-19 vaccination programmes in China and India will stretch until late 2022 due to the sheer size of their population, and more than 85 poor countries will not have widesprea...
Jan 26, 2021
Japan PM apologises after lawmakers’ night club outings
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologised on Wednesday after lawmakers from his ruling coalition visited night clubs despite his government's call for people to avoid unneces...
Jan 26, 2021
Vietnam’s Communist Party chief nominated for re-election: state media
HANOI (Reuters) - Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's ruling Communist Party chief and the architect of the country's anti-corruption campaign, has been nominated to serve a rare third term, a Party official ...
Jan 26, 2021
Global COVID-19 cases surpass 100 million as nations tackle vaccine shortages
By Shaina Ahluwalia and Roshan Abraham (Reuters) - Global coronavirus cases surpassed 100 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as countries around the world struggle with new virus vari...
Jan 26, 2021
Peru orders total lockdown across 10 states as second wave bites
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - President Francisco Sagasti of Peru on Tuesday night announced a total lockdown of the capital and nine other regions following a significant increase in COVID cases, ...
Jan 26, 2021
Mexican president felt unwell before commercial flight, took COVID-19 test later: spokesman
By Frank Jack Daniel MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador first felt the onset of COVID-19 on Sunday and was tested after returning to the capital on a commercial flig...
Jan 26, 2021
South Korea reports big jump in COVID-19 cases on outbreaks in Christian schools
By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities were scrambling on Wednesday to contain coronavirus outbreaks centred around Christian schools as the country reported a jump in infections, da...
Jan 26, 2021
Mexico president has ongoing, minor symptoms of COVID-19, says deputy health minister
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell says Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was still experiencing minor symptoms of COVID-19. Lopez Obrador had a head...
Jan 26, 2021
Australia set for 10th day of no local COVID-19 cases
By Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia is on track for a 10th day of no new local COVID-19 cases on Wednesday with its most populous state of New South Wales (NSW) hoping to ease coronavirus res...
Jan 26, 2021
On eve of Auschwitz anniversary, survivor saddened by U.S. Capitol attack
By Jonathan Oatis and Rollo Ross (Reuters) - As the 76th anniversary on Wednesday of the liberation of Auschwitz draws closer, Bill Harvey, who survived the concentration camp, said he was shocked by ...
Jan 26, 2021
