Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Duma gives first approval to laws moving Russia towards war economy
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers on Tuesday gave the first stamp of approval to two bills that would authorise the government to oblige businesses to supply the military with goods and their emplo...
Jul 05, 2022
Ancient Spanish village loses school, fears for its future as population dwindles
By Susana Vera and Emma Pinedo PITARQUE, Spain (Reuters) - The tiny village of Pitarque at the foot of a mountain in Aragon in eastern Spain has survived for more than 1,300 years, but if depopulation...
Jul 05, 2022
South Korean man jailed over proceeds from child porn site – report
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court on Tuesday sentenced a man convicted of running one of the world's largest child pornography websites to a further two years in prison for concealing proceeds fr...
Jul 05, 2022
130 human trafficker suspects arrested in EU-wide crackdown
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police agency Europol on Tuesday said around 130 suspects of involvement with human trafficking have been arrested in a joint effort by 22 European countries that took place in t...
Jul 05, 2022
Abortion worries heightened for unauthorized immigrants in the U.S
By Sofia Ahmed (Reuters) - Last week calls from Texas began flooding into a national abortion assistance hotline with Spanish-language operators: One woman called afraid to fly to New Mexico because o...
Jul 05, 2022
Back from Europe, Biden turns to diplomatically delicate Saudi Arabia trip
By Steve Holland and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden turns his attention this month to a sensitive trip to the Middle East that will test his ability to reset relations...
Jul 05, 2022
Russian-held part of south Ukraine aims to sell grain to Middle East – TASS
(Reuters) - Russian-installed authorities in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, partly under Russian control, said on Tuesday that an agreement had been reached to sell grain abroad, mai...
Jul 05, 2022
China probes 1990s case of baby taken from parents that sparked outrage online
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has suspended two health officials in the southern region of Guangxi as authorities investigate the case of a baby boy taken from his parents by local government officials ...
Jul 05, 2022
Russian Duma speaker: Ukraine pushing Moscow to expand its military goals – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Tuesday that Ukraine was doing "everything" to ensure that Moscow's troops would not stop their "special military operation"...
Jul 05, 2022
China’s Shanghai to carry out some COVID testing, residents say
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Authorities in at least six districts in Shanghai notified residents that they would be carrying out mass PCR testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday, just over a month after the city's l...
Jul 05, 2022
