Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
U.N. panel says South Sudan blocking its missions to violence-hit areas
By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - Implementation of South Sudan's 2018 peace accord has stalled and authorities have blocked humanitarian access to areas where conflict has restarted, the U.N. panel of e...
Dec 03, 2020
Iran ready for further prisoner swaps; seeks U.S. nuclear move – foreign minister
ROME (Reuters) - Iran is ready to engage in further prisoner swaps after last week exchanging a jailed British-Australian academic with three Iranians detained abroad, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamma...
Dec 03, 2020
How COVID upended life as we knew it in a matter of weeks
By Alexandra Hudson (Reuters) - On Jan. 1, 2020, as the world welcomed a new decade, Chinese authorities in Wuhan shut down a seafood market in the central city of 11 million, suspecting that an outbr...
Dec 03, 2020
Promise of COVID vaccines is ‘phenomenal’, WHO says
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The promise of COVID-19 vaccines is "phenomenal" and "potentially game-changing", Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization's regional director for Europe, told...
Dec 03, 2020
WHO looks at possible ‘e-vaccination certificates’ for travel
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization does not recommend countries issuing "immunity passports" for those who have recovered from COVID-19, but is investigating the prospects of using e-vac...
Dec 03, 2020
English COVID tracers no longer contacting children separately, boosting figures
LONDON (Reuters) - England's COVID-19 test and trace system has stopped trying to contact under-18s separately to ask them to self-isolate if a parent says they will tell their child, helping to boost...
Dec 03, 2020
Moldova’s incoming president stages protests in tussle over control of intelligence service
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of Moldova's incoming president Maia Sandu protested on Thursday against a move by parliament to strip her of control of the intelligenc...
Dec 03, 2020
Swedish prosecutor to close investigation, clearing woman of suspicion of imprisoning son
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The investigation into a 70-year-old Swedish woman detained this week on suspicion of imprisoning her adult son for nearly three decades will be closed, Stockholm prosecutors sai...
Dec 03, 2020
Turkish soldier killed in clash in northwest Syria: ministry
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish soldier was killed in northwest Syria on Thursday in a clash with Kurdish militia fighters in the Afrin region, Turkey's Defence Ministry said, adding that six militants...
Dec 03, 2020
Greece extends nationwide lockdown by a week, to Dec. 14
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece extended by a week a nationwide lockdown it imposed in November to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, the country's government spokesman said on Thursday. The lockdown, th...
Dec 03, 2020
