Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Four Jehovah's Witnesses have been convicted of extremist activity and jailed in Russia in the past week on the basis of covert video recordings by spies who infiltrated their praye...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday following reports of more than 50 civilians being killed in drone strikes in Sudan i...

By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A former aide to Georgia's most powerful man, who had been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for embezzling cryptocurrency from his former boss...

NAIROBI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - British authorities on Wednesday issued removal orders against four Chagossians who landed this week on a remote atoll in the Chagos Archipelago in a move they hoped would ...

By Jenna Greene, Fred Greaves and Rich McKay TRUCKEE, California, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Eight backcountry skiers died when their tour group was overtaken by a football field-sized avalanche in a remote s...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Four South African men who got trapped in Ukraine's Donbas region after being lured into fighting alongside Russian forces there returned home on Wednesday, public bro...

DUBAI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A fire broke out in Iran's Parand near the capital city Tehran, state media reported on Wednesday, publishing videos of smoke rising over the area which is close to several m...

By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Kosovo's former President Hashim Thaci told judges at his war crimes trial in The Hague on Wednesday that justice cannot be served by "prosecuting the inno...

By Ange Kasongo and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila KINSHASA/DAKAR, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo added the rebel-held Rubaya coltan mine, one of the world's richest tantalum deposits,...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Iranians have returned to the streets this week to mourn those killed by security forces during last month's anti-government demonstrations, sparking some ne...