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

By Joyce Lee SEOUL, Jan 7 (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Wednesday that much progress had been made in restoring trust with Beijing, and that he had asked Chinese President X...

DUBAI, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Iran executed a man accused of spying for Israel, the Iranian judiciary's media outlet Mizan reported on Wednesday, naming the defendant as Ali Ardestani. Entangled in a decad...

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI, Jan 7 (Reuters) - China's war game exercises around Taiwan last week were part of a campaign to counter growing international support for the island and an attempt to divert atten...

BEIJING, Jan 7 (Reuters) - China's top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Wednesday, with a focus on the strategically important east, as the world's No.2 economy seeks to reinforce ...

Jan 7 (Reuters) - The leader of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council (STC), Aidarous al-Zubaidi, failed to board a plane set to take him to Riyadh, and fled instead to an unknown destination, the Sau...

MANILA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippines' southern islands on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, and there were no immediate reports of damage or...

By Satoshi Sugiyama and Rocky Swift TOKYO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Japan's top government spokesperson said on Wednesday that China's ban on exports of dual-use items to the country was "absolutely unaccept...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has put 25 more countries on a list of nations whose citizens could be required to post bonds of up to $15,000 t...

BEIJING, Jan 7 (Reuters) - China will take punitive actions against three Taiwanese for their involvement in separatist activities related to "Taiwan independence", its Taiwan Affairs Office said on W...

By Nate Raymond and Steve Gorman BOSTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday released transcripts of video recordings in which they say the gunman who carried out last month's fatal mass ...