Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Chile says preparing to start Pfizer COVID-19 immunization campaign
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile is getting ready to start an immunization campaign with Pfizer Inc's vaccine against the coronavirus, if it wins approval, Health Minister Enrique Paris said on Saturday. Ne...
Dec 12, 2020
Police arrest three people after 21 migrants found in Spanish sweat shop
MADRID (Reuters) - Twenty one migrants have been found hidden in a sweat shop in Spain where they were forced to work long hours in unhygienic conditions for two euros ($2.40) per hour, police said on...
Dec 12, 2020
Qatar says stopped Bahraini cruiser in its waters, second incident in a month
CAIRO (Reuters) - Qatar's interior ministry said on Saturday its coastguard stopped a Bahraini cruiser catching fish in Qatari territorial waters and arrested three people. All three people on the boa...
Dec 12, 2020
Declare states of ‘climate emergency’, U.N. chief tells world leaders
By Matthew Green LONDON (Reuters) - World leaders should declare states of "climate emergency" in their countries to spur action to avoid catastrophic global warming, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Gu...
Dec 12, 2020
Bolivia approves first same-sex union following legal battle
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia's civil registry authorized for the first time a same sex civil union following a two-year legal battle, a decision activists in the Andean nation hope will pave the way for...
Dec 12, 2020
Armed bandits raid Nigerian school, police hunt for missing students
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Bandits armed with assault rifles attacked a secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state late on Friday, police said, and two local people told Reuters hund...
Dec 12, 2020
Hardline Indonesian cleric arrested over alleged lockdown breaches – lawyer
By Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab was arrested in Jakarta on Saturday on suspicion of having breached coronavirus restrictions by holding events tha...
Dec 12, 2020
Japan surpasses 3,000 daily new coronavirus cases for first time – NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan saw more than 3,000 new infections of the novel coronavirus for the first time in one day on Saturday, public broadcaster NHK reported, as the number of cases continues to rise...
Dec 12, 2020
Vietnam jails Hanoi CDC chief for overstating COVID-19 gear cost
HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese court on Saturday sentenced the head of the Hanoi Center for Disease Control and Prevention to 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of wrongdoing linked to the pr...
Dec 12, 2020
Britain’s navy to protect fishing waters in case of no-deal Brexit
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready on Jan. 1 to help protect Britain's fishing waters in the event the Brexit transition period ends without a deal on future ties...
Dec 12, 2020
