Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Venezuela to seat socialist-held congress as Maduro consolidates power
By Mayela Armas and Luc Cohen CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's ruling socialist party on Tuesday will install a congress controlled by allies of President Nicolas Maduro, a change in control that many ...
Jan 05, 2021
South Korea says reviewing planned diplomat visit to Tehran after Iran seizes tanker
By Sangmi Cha and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign ministry is reviewing whether a senior diplomat would be visiting Tehran on Sunday as planned, an official said, after Iranian forc...
Jan 04, 2021
Three Australian cities told to get COVID tests and isolate
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's most populous state New South Wales on Tuesday called on residents in three cities to be tested for COVID-19 and isolate, as concerns grew that a Sydney...
Jan 04, 2021
Assange ‘free to return home’ once legal challenges over, Australia PM says
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Julian Assange is "free to return home" to Australia once legal challenges against him are dealt with, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday, after a UK court denied a reque...
Jan 04, 2021
Japan PM tells party meeting emergency declaration will be decided on Thursday -media
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday told a ruling party meeting a state of emergency declaration for Tokyo and the surrounding area would be decided on Thursday, local ...
Jan 04, 2021
Saudi foreign minister holds talks with Kuwaiti counterpart – SPA
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan AL-saud discussed, by phone with his Kuwaiti counterpart Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, relations between the two countries and common re...
Jan 04, 2021
U.S. judge blocks Trump sanctions targeting human rights lawyers, war crimes tribunal
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from sanctioning human rights lawyers for supporting the work of the world's war crimes tribunal, the I...
Jan 04, 2021
Al Qaeda branch claims responsibility for killing two french soldiers in Mali
DAKAR (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's branch in North Africa has claimed responsibility for killing two French soldiers who died when their armoured vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in eastern...
Jan 04, 2021
Mexican president offers Assange asylum after U.S. extradition bid thwarted
By Daina Beth Solomon and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday offered political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a move that could an...
Jan 04, 2021
Niger mourns, probes weekend massacre in two villages
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger has declared three days of national mourning following the massacre of 100 civilians in two villages in the western region of the country where Islamist militants have carried...
Jan 04, 2021
