Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
China reports 103 new COVID-19 cases vs 118 a day earlier
BEIJING (Reuters) - Mainland China reported 103 new COVID-19 cases on Jan. 19, down from 118 a day earlier, the national health authority said on Wednesday. The National Health Commission, in a statem...
Jan 19, 2021
Beijing to investigate all persons who entered city from Dec. 10: state media
BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in the Chinese capital Beijing said they will track down and investigate everyone who entered the city from abroad from Dec. 10 as part of efforts to prevent a fresh CO...
Jan 19, 2021
Deep in remote Amazon, indigenous villagers receive coronavirus vaccine
By Adriano Machado and Leonardo Benassatto TABATINGA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian military flew medical personnel and 1,000 doses of a Chinese vaccine deep into the Amazon rainforest on Tuesday to st...
Jan 19, 2021
UK’s Boris Johnson aiming for close ties with Biden
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister said he looked forward to working closely with Joe Biden after his inauguration on Wednesday as U.S. president, highlighting the shared interests of the two c...
Jan 19, 2021
Mexico’s attorney general escalates fight with U.S. over former minister
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz said on Tuesday he was considering elevating to international courts a dispute with the United States over Mexico dropping an investiga...
Jan 19, 2021
Guatemala turns more migrants back to Honduras, thinning U.S.-bound caravan
By Luis Echeverria EL FLORIDO, Guatemala (Reuters) - Guatemala on Tuesday pressed on with transporting migrants back to the border with Honduras, further thinning out a U.S.-bound caravan that was hal...
Jan 19, 2021
Germany extends lockdown to Feb. 14: government document
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers agreed on Tuesday to extend a lockdown for most shops and schools until Feb. 14 as part of a package of steps to try to rein in th...
Jan 19, 2021
Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny makes allegations of Putin wealth ahead of protests
By Andrew Osborn and Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic who was jailed at the weekend, on Tuesday released a video in which he...
Jan 19, 2021
Backers of IP waiver for COVID-19 drugs make fresh push at WTO
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - South Africa and India argued in favour of a waiver of intellectual property rights on COVID-19 drugs and vaccines at a closed-door meeting of the World Trade Organiza...
Jan 19, 2021
U.S. blacklists oil traders, tankers for undermining Venezuela sanctions
By Brian Ellsworth and Marianna Parraga CARACAS/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday sanctioned a network of oil trading firms, individuals and vessels that have helped Venezuelan stat...
Jan 19, 2021
