Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Yemen swears in new governors for Hadhramout, Socotra
ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen's internationally recognised government swore in new governors for Hadhramout and Socotra, state media said on Monday, in a move political sources said was aimed at bolstering u...
Aug 01, 2022
Bulgaria pres calls Oct 2 snap election, appoints caretaker govt
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Monday set Oct. 2 as the date for the country's fourth parliamentary election in less than two years, after the collapse in June of reformist Prime...
Aug 01, 2022
Vatican says pope to go to Kazakhstan; expected to meet Russian Orthodox patriarch
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Monday that Pope Francis will travel to Kazakhstan in September for a meeting of religious leaders, a gathering where the pope has said previously he hoped...
Aug 01, 2022
Sri Lanka top court extends travel ban on Mahinda and Basil Rajapaksa until Aug 4 -Ada Derana
(Fixes spelling of Derana in headline) (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has extended a travel ban imposed on former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother, ex-minister Basil Rajapaksa, until...
Aug 01, 2022
U.S. mediator signals optimism on Lebanese-Israeli maritime border deal
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S. official mediating a maritime border dispute between Lebanon and Israel said on Monday he remained optimistic about making progress towards a deal and looked forward to ret...
Aug 01, 2022
Indigenous Australian Senator tweaks oath to label Queen a coloniser
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Indigenous Australian parliamentarian was instructed to retake her oath of office on Monday after she changed it to label Britain's queen a coloniser. Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe...
Aug 01, 2022
U.S. and Japan pursue commercial diplomacy to counter China, envoy to Tokyo says
By David Dolan and Yukiko Toyoda TOKYO (Reuters) - Chips, batteries and energy are key collaboration areas between the United States and Japan as the allies seek to secure supply chains and counter Ch...
Aug 01, 2022
Lebanon’s ordeal: from civil strife to economic collapse
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon marks the second anniversary on Thursday of the Beirut port explosion that killed 215 people and is widely seen as a symbol of corruption and bad governance by the sectarian...
Aug 01, 2022
Marcos rules out Philippines rejoining ICC ahead of plan to resume probe
MANILA (Reuters) - President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Monday ruled out the Philippines rejoining the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose prosecutor plans to resume an investigation into the previo...
Aug 01, 2022
A year after Olympic defection, Belarusian sprinter dreams of 2024 Paris Games
(Reuters) - One year ago, sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya's life was upended when she refused to board a plane back to her native Belarus after being kicked out of the Tokyo Olympics by her team. Wha...
Aug 01, 2022
