Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
‘Or gas them’: Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over migrant comment
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's hard right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party fired an official on Monday who had been caught on a hidden camera discussing gassing refugees. In footage, recorded secretl...
Sep 28, 2020
Explainer: Who’s fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, and why does it matter?
By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) - Fierce fighting has broken out between Azerbaijan and its ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a new and dangerous eruption of a decades-old conflict. WHERE AND W...
Sep 28, 2020
Togo president names Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe as prime minister
LOME (Reuters) - Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has appointed Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe as prime minister, the first woman to hold the position in the West African nation. Her appointment follows the ...
Sep 28, 2020
Key Pakistan opposition figure’s arrest political, party says
By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's anti-graft agency arrested the parliamentary leader of the opposition on corruption charges on Monday after a court rejected a plea for bail...
Sep 28, 2020
Mussels need eating: some Marseille restaurants defy COVID shutdown
MARSEILLE (Reuters) - On the quayside of Marseille's Old Port in France, several restaurants on Monday defied a government order to shutdown for two weeks to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus,...
Sep 28, 2020
Mexican president offers witness protection in missing students probe
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government is seeking to grant protection to suspects who collaborate in a probe into the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican college students, President Andres Manuel Lo...
Sep 28, 2020
UK government brings in new legal restrictions for northeast England
LONDON (Reuters) - British health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday the government was introducing legal restrictions on households mixing in northeastern England to try to reduce a growing number ...
Sep 28, 2020
UK health minister moves to defuse row with lawmakers over coronavirus measures
LONDON (Reuters) - British health minister Matt Hancock moved to defuse a row with some lawmakers over the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, saying he was looking at ways to better invo...
Sep 28, 2020
Kenya’s president extends national curfew, shortens hours
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta extended the nationwide curfew put in place to curb the spread of the new coronavirus but said it would end two hours later at 11pm. Kenyatta, who ...
Sep 28, 2020
French boy thrown from London’s Tate Gallery can now stand again
LONDON (Reuters) - The French boy who was thrown from the roof of London's Tate Gallery more than a year ago can now stand unaided though he had yet to regain his balance, his parents said in a statem...
Sep 28, 2020
