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

JAKARTA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The Indonesian agency responsible for the country's free meals programme has temporarily closed nearly 2,000 kitchens for failing to register for hygiene checks, its chief ...

KATHMANDU, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Rescuers in Nepal are focusing on three hydropower project tunnels where they believe dozens of workers could be trapped, authorities said on Tuesday, two weeks after a d...

MANILA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Boxing great Manny Pacquiao spent decades throwing punches in the boxing ring. From Tuesday, the Filipino sports icon will direct his fight at a more enduring opponent: pove...

By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila DAKAR, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo plans to tighten control over geological data that guides billions of dollars in mining exploration, potentially ext...

By Uditha Jayasinghe YALA, Sri Lanka, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Mugger crocodiles bask along the edge of the shrinking reservoir, waiting like everything else in Sri Lanka's drought-hit Yala National Park fo...

By Xinghui Kok and Jun Yuan Yong SINGAPORE, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Ministerial salaries in Singapore, already among the world's highest, will go up from October 15, boosting the prime minister's annual pa...

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - India is witnessing an unprecedented food safety crackdown, with regulators forcing many local eateries and branded restaurants to suspend operations, whi...

Sept 8 (Reuters) - Operations at some energy facilities in Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, were halted on Tuesday following attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis that wounded 73 people, ...

By Promit Mukherjee OTTAWA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Canada's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods took effect just after midnight on Tuesday as Prime Minister Mark Carney increased economic pressure on his co...

Sept 8 (Reuters) - Russia pummelled Kyiv with drones and missiles early on Tuesday, resuming its air attacks after a brief halt for the visit of U.S. peace negotiators, killing two people and triggeri...