Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Palace photos show Thai king, royal consort visiting prisons, sweeping floors
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's palace has released photographs of King Maha Vajiralongkorn visiting prisons with his royal consort, Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, as the royal family steps up public appear...
Jan 11, 2021
In Senegal, lack of cold storage limits COVID vaccine options
By Christophe Van Der Perre DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal does not have the capacity to store COVID-19 vaccines at ultra-low temperatures and would prefer to receive vials that can be kept for longer unde...
Jan 11, 2021
‘Please help us’: Migrants, exposed to freezing Bosnia winter, await chance to reach EU
By Fedja Grulovic BIHAC, Bosnia (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants are taking shelter in abandoned buildings in and around the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihac, wrapping up as best they can against th...
Jan 11, 2021
Students in Rome stage sit-in to demand schools be re-opened
ROME (Reuters) - Dozens of students staged a sit-in protest outside their school in central Rome on Monday, urging the government to re-open the education sector across the country after most of its 2...
Jan 11, 2021
Putin hosts first post-war talks between leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia
By Tom Balmforth and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday brought together the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for the first time since a war last year ov...
Jan 11, 2021
Oman issues new laws on succession, parliament
DUBAI (Reuters) - Oman's Sultan on Monday issued a new basic law for the country to organize power succession and the naming of a crown prince, and a new law for the parliament, state media said. Sult...
Jan 11, 2021
Russian man gets 10-year jail term in Sweden for hammer attack on Chechen blogger
By 0- STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A hammer-wielding Russian man who tried to beat to death a well-known blogger and critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in Sweden last year was sentenced on Monday to 10 ...
Jan 11, 2021
Steinmetz trial on corruption charges opens in Geneva
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz went on trial in a Geneva court on Monday on corruption and forgery charges linked to mining concessions in the West African ...
Jan 11, 2021
Not ‘up to the job’, Labour leader renews criticism of UK PM
LONDON (Reuters) - British Labour leader Keir Starmer criticised Boris Johnson on Monday for repeatedly failing to take quick decisions to fight the novel coronavirus and called on the prime minister ...
Jan 11, 2021
Gorbachev expects Biden to extend last Cold War arms deal, but says more needed
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, said he expects U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to extend the last major nuclear arms control treaty between Moscow and Wa...
Jan 11, 2021
