Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
WHO’s Ryan: Need consistent messaging, mustn’t turn COVID-19 into “political football”
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's top emergency expert, asked on Thursday about contradictory remarks by President Donald Trump and U.S. health officials, said that it was important f...
Sep 17, 2020
Exclusive: Suspected arms dealers moved millions in Somali money transfers, report says
By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali money transfer companies moved more than $3.7 million in cash between suspected weapons traffickers in recent years, including to a Yemeni under U.S. sa...
Sep 17, 2020
Algerian referendum looms as test for president and opposition
By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - A vote on a new constitution in Algeria in November marks a turning point for a country that has been rocked by huge protests and political upheaval and which is n...
Sep 17, 2020
A Nobel for Thunberg? In the age of climate change and virus, it is possible
By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - This year's Nobel Peace Prize could go to green campaigner Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement to highlight the link between environmental damage and ...
Sep 17, 2020
China lodges complaint with US over senior official visiting Taiwan
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it had lodged a formal complaint with the United States about the upcoming visit of U.S. Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach t...
Sep 17, 2020
Navalny team says he was poisoned by water bottle in hotel room, not at airport
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a bottle of water in his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, not at the airport as previously thought, his team said alongside a ...
Sep 17, 2020
Biden warns UK on Brexit: No trade deal unless you respect Northern Irish peace deal
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has warned the United Kingdom that it must honour the Northern Irish peace deal as it extracts itself from the European Union or the...
Sep 17, 2020
Disney’s ‘Mulan’ gets cold reception in boycott-leading Hong Kong
By Yanni Chow and Carol Mang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's live-action remake of "Mulan" opened on Thursday to a lacklustre reception in Hong Kong, where pro-democracy activists have been lea...
Sep 17, 2020
Greece police moves migrants into Lesbos tent camp after fire
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police began moving hundreds of migrants stranded on the island of Lesbos into a new temporary tent camp on Thursday, more than a week after a fire razed Greece's biggest migr...
Sep 17, 2020
Uganda says 219 prisoners escape, some with guns and ammunition
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Prisoners in a Ugandan jail overpowered their guards and 219 of them escaped with at least 15 guns, but two were killed after security forces launched an opera...
Sep 17, 2020
