Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
WHO, marking year since COVID-19 began, urges fair vaccine distribution to all
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization, marking a year since the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by China, urged countries on Wednesday to...
Dec 30, 2020
Slow French start to COVID-19 vaccinations draws critics
PARIS (Reuters) - France's slow start to its COVID-19 vaccination campaign compared to its European neighbours came under fire from some doctors and scientists on Wednesday, although the government ha...
Dec 30, 2020
Putin targets U.S. social media, secret agent leaks and protests with new laws
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin signed an array of laws on Wednesday handing Russia new powers to restrict U.S. social media giants, label individuals "foreign agents", and to crack down o...
Dec 30, 2020
Uganda opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine says he, campaign team arrested
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, and his campaign team were arrested in the country's central region o...
Dec 30, 2020
“Where shall we go?”, families ask after Croatia quake
By Antonio Bronic MAJSKE POLJANE, Croatia (Reuters) - Rescue workers sifted through the rubble on Wednesday to make sure there were no more people trapped after an earthquake in central Croatia that k...
Dec 30, 2020
Analysis-Cuba’s looming monetary reform sparks confusion, inflation fears
By Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - A major monetary reform that will hike prices and state wages in Cuba starting on Friday is sparking widespread uncertainty as the Communist-run isl...
Dec 30, 2020
Ethiopian migrant who became symbol of integration in Italy killed on her goat farm
ROME (Reuters) - An Ethiopian migrant who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, has been killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said on Wednesda...
Dec 30, 2020
Landslide hits residential area in Norway, 10 hurt, 26 unaccounted for
By Nora Buli OSLO (Reuters) - Ten people were hurt, one of them critically, and 26 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the ea...
Dec 30, 2020
Once Netanyahu’s greatest rival, Israel’s Gantz is down, if not out
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Benny Gantz, the former general who came close to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long dominance of Israeli politics, is finding his star is fading fa...
Dec 30, 2020
‘Boris the betrayer’ has swindled us over Brexit, England’s fishermen say
By Guy Faulconbridge NEWLYN, England (Reuters) - For England's fishermen, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit trade deal is a betrayal because it allows some European Union boats continued access to...
Dec 30, 2020
