Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Court suspends move to delay Catalan election until May
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalonia's top court on Tuesday suspended the regional government's decision to delay a parliamentary election from next month until May due to the coronavirus, a potential setb...
Jan 19, 2021
Israeli pensioners party after COVID-19 booster shots
NETANYA, Israel (Reuters) - The rapid roll-out of coronavirus vaccines amongst older people in Israel has lifted the spirits of an age group that has endured confinement and isolation during the crisi...
Jan 19, 2021
Spain declares disaster-zone status for Madrid, other storm-hit regions
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's government on Tuesday classified Madrid and other regions struck by Storm Filomena last week as disaster zones, a move which will trigger emergency subsidies and other suppo...
Jan 19, 2021
Iraq delays general election to Oct. 10 – state media
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's cabinet decided on Tuesday to postpone the general election to Oct. 10 from June, the state news agency INA said. The elections been brought forward to June 6, roughly a yea...
Jan 19, 2021
Head of Ukraine Constitutional Court notified he considered a suspect in witness tampering case
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian investigators formally notified the head of Ukraine's constitutional court that he is a suspect in a witness tampering case, the state investigation bureau said on Tuesday. ...
Jan 19, 2021
UK says Biden confirmation shows U.S. democracy rejects violence
LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Tuesday the confirmation of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States showed democracy there could not be challenged by a v...
Jan 19, 2021
Iraq tightens security along flashpoint Syria frontier, military says
By John Davison AL-QAIM, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq is tightening security along its 600 km (400 mile) border with Syria to curb the movement of Islamic State militants, drug smuggling and other illegal ac...
Jan 19, 2021
Violence create food crisis in northern Mozambique: WFP
GENEVA (Reuters) - Militant attacks that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province have created a humanitarian crisis, the U.N. Wor...
Jan 19, 2021
COVID-19 forces delay of no-confidence vote in Slovenia government
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Slovenia's leftist opposition decided on Tuesday to drop temporarily a no-confidence motion against the centre-right government as some deputies would not be able to participate in ...
Jan 19, 2021
Love thy neighbour and get a COVID jab, says Archbishop of Canterbury
LONDON (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, received a COVID-19 vaccine and urged people across the world to accept the jab, saying that getting vaccinated was part of the Christian...
Jan 19, 2021
