Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Mexico City cinema, theater and bars emerge from lockdown gloom
By Josue Gonzalez and Alberto Fajardo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - After months without museums, cinemas and bars, Mexico City residents began exploring them again this week, even as authorities continue b...
Aug 14, 2020
Britain’s Princess Anne turns 70 with low key celebration
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Princess Anne will mark her 70th birthday on Saturday with a low-key celebration, as befits the traditionally hardest-working member of the royal family, after COVID-19 fo...
Aug 14, 2020
Mystery of the dimming of massive star Betelgeuse explained
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have determined the cause of the dramatic dimming observed last year and earlier this year of one of the brightest stars in the night sky, a colossus ...
Aug 14, 2020
Hezbollah ‘not concerned’ with verdict of U.N.-backed tribunal
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah's leader said on Friday the group was not concerned with the verdict of a U.N.-backed tribunal over the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik al-Hariri due on August 18. Sayye...
Aug 14, 2020
Sweat, smoke and flames: fighting fires in the Amazon
By Leonardo Benassatto and Ueslei Marcelino APUI, Brazil (Reuters) - For a moment, the Brazilian firefighters were taken aback by the sudden rage of the climbing flames: the speed at which they grew a...
Aug 14, 2020
Explosions heard at Sudanese army arms factory: witnesses
CAIRO (Reuters) - A number of explosions were heard and smoke was seen rising from a Sudanese army artillery factory south of the capital Khartoum, eyewitnesses told Reuters. There were no immediate r...
Aug 14, 2020
Latin American should not support Venezuela’s December assembly vote: Duque
BOGOTA (Reuters) - A regional bloc comprised mostly of Latin American nations cannot support upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela because President Nicolas Maduro is manipulating the process to...
Aug 14, 2020
Bus torched in Ivory Coast as election tensions run high
By Ange Aboa and Loucoumane Coulibaly BONOUA/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Protesters in Ivory Coast set fire to a bus in Abidjan on Friday after deadly protests earlier in the week against the president's deci...
Aug 14, 2020
U.N. chief urges Yemen’s Houthis to grant access to decaying oil tanker
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Yemen's Houthi group to allow an assessment team to travel to a decaying oil tanker that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels ...
Aug 14, 2020
Rockets land near Baghdad airport after week of anti-U.S. attacks
GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) - Three rockets landed in the vicinity of Baghdad airport near a military base in the complex that houses U.S. forces, the Iraqi military said, after one of the busiest w...
Aug 14, 2020
