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

By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) -Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's request to be released from jail pending an appeal will be heard in a Paris court on Monday, weeks after he started a fi...

By Laurie Chen and Antoni Slodkowski BEIJING (Reuters) -FBI Director Kash Patel visited China last week to discuss fentanyl and law enforcement issues, two people familiar with his trip told Reuters, ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia's second president and strongman Suharto was named a national hero by the government led by his former son-in-law, President Prabowo Subianto, in a controversial move cond...

(Corrects to remove extraneous word "is" from headline) By Ananda Teresia and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia is set to award the title of national hero on Monday to late President Suhar...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's special prosecutor on Monday indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol on additional charges of abusing power and aiding an enemy state related to his short-lived impositi...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) -A boat carrying members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya community that sank in waters near the Thailand-Malaysia border was carrying around 70 people, while the status o...

QUITO (Reuters) -A day of violent rioting at a prison in southwest Ecuador on Sunday caused the deaths of at least 31 inmates, the country's prisons agency said. Twenty-seven prisoners in port town Ma...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's coast guard launched a search on Monday after reports that nine crew members were missing when a Chinese fishing vessel capsized off the country's west coast, an officia...

By Adrian Portugal and Eloisa Lopez ISABELA, Philippines (Reuters) -Typhoon Fung-wong ravaged the northern Philippines overnight, killing at least two people and cutting off some towns as residents em...

By Ruma Paul KURIGRAM, Bangladesh (Reuters) -On an overcast morning, Nurun Nabi loads bamboo poles and tin sheets onto a wooden boat. His home, built just a year ago on a fragile island in the Brahmap...