Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
EU leaders to hold almost weekly video-conferences on COVID-19 pandemic
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders have agreed to hold video conferences almost on a weekly basis to coordinate national measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, as the continent battles a spi...
Oct 16, 2020
Yemen’s warring parties swap prisoners for second day
SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Planes carrying prisoners to be exchanged by Yemen's warring parties took off on Friday on the second day of an operation to return about 1,000 men home and help build momentum ...
Oct 16, 2020
Iran says one of two cyber attack targets was country’s ports: news agency
(Reuters) - One of the targets of large cyber attacks on two Iranian government institutions this week was the electronic infrastructure of the country's ports, an Iranian news agency reported on Frid...
Oct 16, 2020
Nagorno-Karabakh says death toll among its military rises to 633 since start of conflict
YEREVAN (Reuters) - The defence ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh region said on Friday it had recorded another 29 casualties among its military, pushing the military death toll to 633 since fighting w...
Oct 16, 2020
White House election race reaches streets of Tel Aviv
By Rami Ayyub TEL AVIV (Reuters) - "You have to thank Trump" posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week, as Republican ads brought the race for the White House ont...
Oct 16, 2020
Thai PM vows to stay on as protesters defy his ban
By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Friday he was not quitting after tens of thousands of anti-government protesters defie...
Oct 16, 2020
Brexit drama: British PM Johnson to answer EU’s demand to give ground
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Friday give Britain's response to the European Union's demand that he either gives more concessions to secure a trade deal ...
Oct 16, 2020
Thai police to charge two for violence against queen
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Friday that two men would be charged with attempted violence against the queen, which carries a possible death sentence, after an incident in which her motorcad...
Oct 16, 2020
Britain moves closer to COVID-19 vaccine trials that infect volunteers
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - "Human challenge" trials of potential COVID-19 vaccines, where volunteers are deliberately infected with the disease, could become a reality after a British biotech ...
Oct 16, 2020
China’s Qingdao city says coronavirus cluster traced to two dock workers
BEIJING (Reuters) - The cause of an outbreak of the novel coronavirus at a hospital in the Chinese coastal city of Qingdao was traced to two infected dock workers, authorities said on Friday. The work...
Oct 16, 2020
