Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
China reports 338 new COVID cases for July 12 vs 424 a day
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 338 new COVID-19 infections on July 12, of which 98 were symptomatic and 240 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday. That is compared w...
Jul 12, 2022
Explainer: How Sri Lanka spiralled into crisis
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Alasdair Pal (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's economic crisis looks to have finally toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, likely headed to ...
Jul 12, 2022
Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Civil war victor brought down by protests
By Alasdair Pal (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who oversaw a ruthless crushing of Tamil Tiger guerrillas to end a long-running civil war and went on to become president, had been due to s...
Jul 12, 2022
Rajapaksa dynasty draws to humiliating close in Sri Lanka
By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Rajapaksa dynasty dominated Sri Lankan politics until April when street protests against fuel and food shortages began to slip out of c...
Jul 12, 2022
Timeline: How Sri Lankan protests unfolded
(Reuters) - A deep financial crisis has left Sri Lanka struggling to pay for imports of food, medicine and fuel and brought thousands of protesters on to the streets. On Wednesday, a government source...
Jul 12, 2022
Mexico to purchase U.S. milk and fertilizer, U.S. and Mexican presidents say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexico plans to purchase up to 20,000 tons of milk powder and up to one million tons of ammonium sulfate fertilizer from the United States, the presidents of Mexico and the Unit...
Jul 12, 2022
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees country – AP
(Reuters) - The president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled the country early on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported, citing an unnamed immigration official. Rajapaksa, his wife and two body...
Jul 12, 2022
Over 1,000 children in English town were sexually exploited, inquiry finds
LONDON (Reuters) - More than a thousand children in Telford, England were sexually exploited since 1989 because of the police and local government's failure to investigate the offenders, an independen...
Jul 12, 2022
Ukraine ministry: ships passing through Danube Bystre rivermouth
(Reuters) - Ukraine's infrastructure ministry said in a statement Tuesday that 16 ships had passed through the Danube's newly-reopened Bystre rivermouth in the last four days and that the opening up o...
Jul 12, 2022
Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes Easter Island region -EMSC
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Easter Island region in the Pacific Ocean near Chile on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a d...
Jul 12, 2022
