Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Egypt begins voting to elect new parliament
CAIRO (Reuters) - Polls opened in Egypt on Saturday for parliamentary elections that will stretch over several weeks and are set to be dominated by supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. A firs...
Oct 24, 2020
IOC chief Bach says Olympic Games cannot be ‘marketplace of demonstrations’
(Reuters) - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said the Olympic Games are not about politics and must guard against becoming a "marketplace of demonstrations". Against the bac...
Oct 24, 2020
New clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh after Washington talks
By Nailia Bagirova and Vladimir Soldatkin BAKU/MOSCOW (Reuters) - New clashes broke out between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh a day after talks in Washington to try to en...
Oct 24, 2020
Iran says U.S.-brokered Sudan-Israel deal secured by ‘ransom’
(Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.-brokered Sudan-Israel deal to normalise ties as "phoney" and accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington removing it f...
Oct 24, 2020
Seven bodies found in fertilizer shipment from Serbia to Paraguay
By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) - The badly decomposed bodies of seven people who may have been stowaways were found on Friday inside a shipment of fertilizer that left Serbia three months ago,...
Oct 23, 2020
U.S. sanctions Russian institute linked to dangerous malware
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington imposed sanctions on Friday on a Russian research institute tied to the development of a dangerous computer program capable of causing catastrophic ...
Oct 23, 2020
France becomes seventh country with more than 1 million COVID-19 cases
By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) - The number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections jumped over one million on Friday, making France the seventh country to reach that milestone. Over the past 24...
Oct 23, 2020
Israel hails ‘new era’ with Sudan but Palestinians lament ‘new stab in the back’
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel hailed a new era in its relations with the Arab world on Friday after the announcement of plans to normalize ties with Sudan, an agreement the Palestinians described as a ...
Oct 23, 2020
Biden win would bring relief but few fixes, says Merkel ally
By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) - A sigh of relief would go around the world if Democratic challenger Joe Biden wins the U.S. presidency but Berlin would still face many of the same policy problems ...
Oct 23, 2020
Fire put out after blast at petrochemical plant in southwest Iran
DUBAI (Reuters) - A blaze caused by a blast at a large petrochemical plant near Iran's southwestern Gulf coast was put out within hours on Friday, the Bandar Imam Petrochemical Company said. The compa...
Oct 23, 2020
