Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Hong Kong journalist appears in court amid fears over press freedom
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong journalist appeared in court on Tuesday on a charge of making a false statement to obtain data for a documentary on the police's handling of a mob atta...
Nov 10, 2020
Ethiopia PM not rebuffing calls for calm as clashes intensify, says spokeswoman
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is not rebuffing international calls for calm, his office's spokeswoman said on Tuesday, amid an escalating conflict in the Tigray region that m...
Nov 10, 2020
Blocking Taiwan at WHO will increase hostility to China, premier says
TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's efforts to block Taiwan's participation at the World Health Organization (WHO) during the coronavirus pandemic will only increase the world's hostility towards the country, ...
Nov 10, 2020
Souvankham Thammavongsa wins Canada’s top literary Scotiabank Giller Prize
TORONTO (Reuters) - Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's top award for literature, for her short story collection "How To Pronounce Knife," the prize's sponsor announc...
Nov 09, 2020
El Salvador president faces probe over search for wartime massacre files
By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A court in El Salvador has asked the prosecutor's office to investigate whether President Nayib Bukele and his defense minister blocked a judicial inspectio...
Nov 09, 2020
Afghan woman shot, blinded, for getting a job
By Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) - The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw were the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job at a police station in Afghanistan's cent...
Nov 09, 2020
Russia deploys troops to Nagorno-Karabakh after ceasefire deal announced
By Nvard Hovhannisyan and Nailia Bagirova YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Russian peacekeeping troops deployed to the war-ravaged enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in the early hours of Tuesday as part of a ceasef...
Nov 09, 2020
Australian media face trial over Cardinal Pell’s child sex abuse case reporting
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A trial began on Monday alleging dozens of journalists, editors and media companies breached an Australia-wide court suppression order in reporting on ex-Vatican t...
Nov 09, 2020
Mexican reporter about to broadcast discovery of human remains is shot dead
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican reporter who wrote about violent crime in the central state of Guanajuato died of gunshot wounds on Monday, local authorities confirmed, in the second murder of a jou...
Nov 09, 2020
China wildlife crime prosecutions up sharply after COVID-19 outbreak
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China prosecuted more than 15,000 people for wildlife-related crimes in the first nine months of the year, up 66% from 2019, state prosecutors said, as authorities moved to enforc...
Nov 09, 2020
