Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Thousands protest in Sudan in call for faster reform
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets of the capital Khartoum and its twin city Omdurman on Saturday, demanding an acceleration of reforms on the second anniversary...
Dec 19, 2020
Armenians march to mourn war victims as PM faces calls to resign
YEREVAN (Reuters) - Thousands of Armenians marched through the capital Yerevan on Saturday to commemorate the soldiers killed in a six-week conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in which Azerbaija...
Dec 19, 2020
UK ministers discuss COVID-19 concern amid rise in cases
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was holding a conference call with his senior ministers on Saturday to discuss concern over a new strain of the COVID-19 virus which is rising a...
Dec 19, 2020
See each other by video call this Christmas, Merkel tells Germans
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans on Saturday to avoid visiting family members over Christmas and to use video calls instead for greetings, the way service members stationed ab...
Dec 19, 2020
Santa goes virtual in pandemic hit Spain
MADRID (Reuters) - An enterprising Santa Claus has given himself the mission of saving Christmas in Spain by sending video messages to children who are unable to meet the man himself this year because...
Dec 19, 2020
French President Macron’s condition is ‘stable’, presidency says
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron's condition is stable and the results of a medical examination reassuring, the French presidency said on Saturday in an update on his bout of coronav...
Dec 19, 2020
China says tailed U.S. warship in Taiwan Strait
SHANGHAI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's military tailed a U.S. warship as it passed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Saturday, the Chinese military said, denouncing such missions as sending "flirtat...
Dec 19, 2020
Portugal’s Costa to self-isolate over Christmas after lunch with Macron
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa will self-isolate for 14 days, spending Christmas at his official residence, after meeting earlier this week with French President Emmanuel M...
Dec 19, 2020
U.S. to halt work at two consulates in Russia after COVID-19 drawdown
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States is halting work at two consulates in Russia, the State Department said, citing safety and security issues at the facilities where operations had been curtailed ove...
Dec 19, 2020
Fire in hospital kills eight people in southeast Turkey: governor
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A fire in a private hospital's COVID-19 intensive care unit killed eight people, the governor's office in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep said on Saturday. The fire...
Dec 19, 2020
