Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Taiwan says is having ‘good interactions’ with Biden team
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has been having "good interactions" with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's team, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, as it seeks to cement ties with the incoming administrat...
Nov 24, 2020
Taiwan to protect sovereignty with new submarines amid China tensions
By Ann Wang KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday vowed to defend the democratic island's sovereignty with the construction of a new fleet of domestically-developed su...
Nov 24, 2020
China’s Manila mission says ‘dangerous’ U.S. creating chaos in Asia
MANILA (Reuters) - China's embassy in the Philippines has denounced the United States for "creating chaos" in Asia, after a visiting White House envoy backed countries in disputes with China and accus...
Nov 23, 2020
Rights commission alarmed as Venezuelan minors deported from Trinidad and Tobago
CARACAS (Reuters) - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Monday expressed concern for dozens of Venezuelan migrants, including 16 minors, who were deported from neighboring Trinida...
Nov 23, 2020
China’s top diplomat visits Japan amid regional tensions
By Ju-min Park and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to visit Tokyo on Tuesday marking the first such high-level trip since Japan picked a new leader in Septem...
Nov 23, 2020
South Korean delivery workers say coronavirus boom means relentless toil
By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's delivery workers have fallen into what they call a "legal blind spot" and say it's a deadly place to be as the novel coronavirus drives an unprecedented ...
Nov 23, 2020
Irresponsible ‘tough talk’ with China is useless, says Canada foreign minister
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will keep pressing China to improve its human rights record but has no interest in irresponsible tough talk, Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne s...
Nov 23, 2020
Japan’s ramen bars struggle to stay open as COVID hammers small firms
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Sixty-year-old Yashiro Haga is folding his Tokyo noodle ramen shop after 15 years in December, unable to overcome the prospect of a lasting customer slump due to t...
Nov 23, 2020
Carrefour Brasil shares plunge as Brazilians protest killing of Black man at store
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Supermarket chain Carrefour Brasil's share price plummeted 6% in afternoon trading on Monday after the death of a Black man beaten by security guards last week at one ...
Nov 23, 2020
Analysis: Biden’s pick for U.N. envoy will find waning American influence
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden's pick to be his ambassador to the United Nations in New York will have to tackle Washington's waning leadership at the world body in...
Nov 23, 2020
