Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Ginza shoppers clean hands, phones with high-tech wash stations
By Chris Gallagher and Hideto Sakai TOKYO (Reuters) - Shoppers washed their hands and sterilised their smartphones in the streets of Tokyo's posh Ginza district on Saturday using handwashing stations ...
Dec 19, 2020
China to vaccinate ‘key groups’ over winter, spring: official
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will focus first on vaccinating high-risk groups over the winter and spring before widening the inoculation to the general public, a senior health official said on Saturday. ...
Dec 18, 2020
India passes grim milestone of 10 million coronavirus infections
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's coronavirus tally breached the 10 million mark on Saturday, the world's second highest, even though the number of new daily cases has fallen sharply since a mid-September...
Dec 18, 2020
Smuggled orangutans start new life after repatriation to Indonesia
By Yudi Saputra JAMBI (Reuters) - A pair of critically endangered orangutans, rescued from smugglers on the Thai-Malaysian border in 2017, have arrived in Indonesia to undergo rehabilitation so they c...
Dec 18, 2020
Hong Kong manhunt underway for escaped COVID-19 patient
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong authorities are searching for a COVID-19 positive patient who escaped one of the city's largest hospitals while undergoing treatment, according to health officials. The...
Dec 18, 2020
Landslide at Vale mine near 2019 disaster site kills one in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A landslide at a mine owned by Brazil's Vale SA near the site of the 2019 Brumadinho dam disaster buried and killed a worker on Friday, the company told Reuters in a stateme...
Dec 18, 2020
Venezuela’s ruling Socialists to shut all-powerful legislative assembly
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly, a pro-government legislature created in 2017 that was widely criticized for undermining democracy, will cease operations at the end of 20...
Dec 18, 2020
Chilean president handed $3,500 fine for mask-less selfie with stranger on beach
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera was slapped with a $3,500 fine on Friday after posing for a selfie on the beach with a bystander without wearing a mask as required during the c...
Dec 18, 2020
UK government makes push to persuade U.S. to lift travel restrictions -sources
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The British government is making a concerted effort to persuade the Trump administration to lift or soften travel restrictions that bar most people in the Un...
Dec 18, 2020
UK’s Johnson summons ministers over new COVID-19 variant -The Telegraph
LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called senior ministers to an unscheduled meeting on Friday evening to discuss how to contain a new, more virulent variant of the coronavirus...
Dec 18, 2020
