Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Canada floats idea of North American ban on new gasoline-powered cars
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada wants deeper environmental ties with the United States and one result could be a North American ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and ...
Dec 17, 2020
Second COVID-19 wave hits West & Central Africa as weather cools
By Paul Lorgerie and Edward McAllister BAMAKO/DAKAR (Reuters) - A second wave of coronavirus infections is hitting West and Central Africa, and experts are warning it could be worse than the first as ...
Dec 17, 2020
Panama-flagged cargo ship capsizes off Vietnam, 15 sailors missing
HANOI (Reuters) - At least 15 sailors were missing on Thursday after a Panama-flagged cargo ship capsized in rough seas off Vietnam, Vietnamese state media said. The incident happened off the central ...
Dec 17, 2020
From bows to handshakes, how Macron let social distancing slip
By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Once an early adopter of the coronavirus-proof 'namaste' greeting, French President Emmanuel Macron was showing signs of letting his guard down almost a year into the ...
Dec 17, 2020
French court sentences Thalys train attacker to life in jail
PARIS (Reuters) - An Islamist militant who opened fire aboard a high-speed train travelling through northern Europe but was overpowered by three Americans before he killed anyone was sentenced to life...
Dec 17, 2020
Rome homeless send sunflowers to pope on 84th birthday
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Rome's homeless sent sunflowers to Pope Francis for his 84th birthday on Thursday and the pontiff marked the day by sending four ventilators to hospitals in Venezuela, the Vat...
Dec 17, 2020
Pope sends envoy to Lukashenko after exiling of Belarusian archbishop
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A special envoy from Pope Francis met on Thursday with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the Vatican said, following tensions between the governmen...
Dec 17, 2020
India’s Supreme Court declines calls to ban farmers’ protest
By Suchitra, Mohanty and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Friday declined calls to ban a weeks-long farmers' protest and asked the government and unions to help form a co...
Dec 17, 2020
Video purportedly released by Boko Haram claims to show kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - A video circulating on social media on Thursday purportedly showed Islamist militant group Boko Haram with some of the hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped last week in northwest Nig...
Dec 17, 2020
Rights group says Peru police committed ‘multiple abuses’ against protesters
LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian national police committed "multiple abuses" against mostly peaceful demonstrators in November as they protested "the very questionable removal" of then-President Martin Vizca...
Dec 17, 2020
