Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Brazil invites election observers on record scale as Bolsonaro stirs doubts
By Anthony Boadle and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil is preparing to receive a record number of international observers for its October election, according to electoral authorities and part...
May 27, 2022
Exclusive-Evergrande discussing staggered payments, debt-to-equity swaps for $19 billion offshore bonds-sources
By Xie Yu, Julie Zhu and Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Evergrande Group is considering repaying offshore public bondholders owed around $19 billion with cash instalments and equity in two of i...
May 27, 2022
No work and nowhere to live: a rural migrant’s ordeal in locked-down Shanghai
By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) - When Shanghai began its draconian COVID-19 lockdown two months ago, the French restaurant where Sun Wu waited tables closed and the 22-year-old, like countle...
May 27, 2022
Grains vs Biodiversity: Germany’s new, greener govt stages balancing act
By Riham Alkousaa and Lena Toepler SPREEWALD, Germany (Reuters) - Alarmed by the prospect of global food shortages due to the conflict in Ukraine, the EU wants to get as much land in Europe as possibl...
May 27, 2022
Shanghai economy improves fitfully as end of COVID lockdown nears
By David Stanway and Roxanne Liu SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Shanghai took further gradual steps on Friday toward lifting its COVID-19 lockdown while Beijing was investigating cases where its strict ...
May 27, 2022
Officials from U.S., Japan, South Korea to meet, discuss North Korea
TOKYO (Reuters) - Officials from the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Seoul on June 3 for talks on North Korea, which is believed to be preparing a new nuclear test and this week laun...
May 27, 2022
Japan to restart idled nuclear power plants, no plans to replace, says PM
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will take firm steps to restart idled nuclear power plants to make maximum use of nuclear power to stabilise energy prices and supply, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Frid...
May 27, 2022
Hong Kong seeks to revive global banking status with major summit
By Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's central bank plans to hold a major conference in November it hopes will draw global banking bosses, sources said, as the financial hub seeks to welco...
May 26, 2022
‘Protect the truth’: A Marcos return in Philippines triggers fear for history
By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Books about the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his brutal era of martial law are flying off the shelves, spurred by "panic buying" after his son and nam...
May 26, 2022
Australia warns against Pacific security pact as China says interference will fail
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's foreign minister Penny Wong warned on a visit to Fiji on Friday that there were regional consequences to the Solomon Islands' security pact with China, after her Chinese...
May 26, 2022
