Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
West tells Russia to free Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Moscow pushes back
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Western nations told Russia to immediately free detained Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Monday, a day after he was detained at a Moscow airport after flying home for the first tim...
Jan 18, 2021
Singapore to resume hosting Shangri-La Dialogue summit in June
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will resume hosting the Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit this year after it was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organisers and the city-state's...
Jan 18, 2021
China to sanction U.S. officials for ‘nasty’ behaviour over Taiwan
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry said on Monday it had decided to impose sanctions on U.S. officials who have engaged in "nasty" behaviour over Taiwan, which China claims as its own territ...
Jan 18, 2021
UK is vaccinating 140 people per minute on average, minister says
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom is vaccinating 140 people per minute against COVID-19 on average, Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Monday. "It is going well, we're vaccinating o...
Jan 18, 2021
‘We’re starving’: U.S.-bound migrant caravan hunkers down after Guatemala crackdown
By Luis Echeverria VADO HONDO, Guatemala (Reuters) - Hundreds of Honduran migrants huddled overnight on a highway in eastern Guatemala after domestic security forces used sticks and tear gas to halt t...
Jan 18, 2021
New coronavirus variant hits posh Swiss resort of St Moritz
ZURICH (Reuters) - Health authorities quarantined two hotels and closed ski schools in the posh Swiss resort of St Moritz on Monday to try to curb an outbreak of the highly infections new coronavirus ...
Jan 18, 2021
Saudis vowed to stop executing minors; some death sentences remain, rights groups say
By Raya Jalabi DUBAI (Reuters) - Five people who committed crimes in Saudi Arabia as minors have yet to have their death sentences revoked, according to two rights groups, nine months after the kingdo...
Jan 18, 2021
Japan PM Suga: Will exhaust all means to protect pandemic-hit medical system
By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday his government will take all possible measures to protect the country's medical system, as hospitals creak u...
Jan 18, 2021
Samsung’s Lee receives two-and-a-half year jail term from Seoul court
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Seoul High Court sentenced Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee to a two-and-a-half year jail term, the court said on Monday. Lee, 52, was convicted of bribing ...
Jan 18, 2021
South Korea’s Moon urges Biden admin to follow up on Kim, Trump summit
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden should hold talks with North Korea to build on progress that President Donald Tr...
Jan 17, 2021
