Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Iran's IRGC to carry out live-fire exercises in Strait of Hormuz, Press TV reports
Jan 29 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guard naval forces will carry out live-fire exercises in the Strait of Hormuz on February 1 and February 2, Press TV reported on Thursday. The strait is the wor...
Jan 29, 2026
Historic Alexandria tramway prepares to shut ahead of contested overhaul
(Removes extraneous word in paragraph 14) By Mariam Rizk and Mohamed Ezz ALEXANDRIA, Egypt Jan 29 (Reuters) - As the blue-and-white tram carriages rattle into a large square in the heart of Alexandria...
Jan 29, 2026
India's Colgate-Palmolive posts marginal profit rise as tax-cut tailwind offsets one-time charge
(Corrects to add dropped word 'India's' in headline) Jan 29 (Reuters) - Colgate-Palmolive (India) reported a marginal rise in third-quarter profit on Thursday, benefitting from demand for its oral hyg...
Jan 29, 2026
EU to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organisation, Kallas says
BRUSSELS, Jan 29 (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers have agreed to add Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the bloc's list of terrorist organisations, European Foreign Policy ...
Jan 29, 2026
Swiss prosecutors widen fatal fire probe to local authorities, documents show
By Emma Farge GENEVA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Swiss prosecutors have summoned a current and a former local official for questioning next month in a probe into a New Year bar fire that killed 40 people, and...
Jan 29, 2026
Kremlin says Russia has invited Ukraine's Zelenskiy to come to Moscow for peace talks
By Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia had reiterated its invitation for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to come to Moscow for ...
Jan 29, 2026
Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest, sources say
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Plainclothes Iranian security forces have rounded up thousands of people in a campaign of mass arrests and intimidation to deter further protests after crush...
Jan 29, 2026
Germany aims to confiscate property seized in Lebanon ex-central bank chief probe
BERLIN, Jan 29 (Reuters) - German prosecutors have applied to a court to confiscate some 35 million euros ($42 million) worth of property they had seized in a money laundering investigation into the f...
Jan 29, 2026
Spain's government defends rail investment record after deadly crashes
MADRID, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Spain's transport minister said on Thursday his government had ramped up spending in the railway network after years of underinvestment as he faced a grilling from senators ...
Jan 29, 2026
EU sanctions Iran's interior minister and prosecutor general
BRUSSELS, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The European Union has sanctioned Iran's Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and Prosecutor General Mohammad Movahedi Azad, as well as Iman Afshari, a presiding judge, the C...
Jan 29, 2026
