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

By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Taiwan is determined to strengthen its defences and plans record defence spending next year, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday, describing his governmen...

Aug 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing left for Russia on Monday for his first official visit to the country since he assumed the presidency in April, according to sta...

MOGADISHU, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Somali federal troops drove opposition forces out of one of the country's biggest cities, Baidoa, on Monday, following heavy clashes that left many people dead, residents...

By Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday, a day after holding a r...

Aug 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has told the Pentagon to "substantially reduce" joint military exercises with South Korea that began on Monday, citing the cost and Seoul's refusal to ta...

By Anton Zverev LONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Binance last year handed Russian authorities details of cryptocurrency donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns that were used as evidence to bring terro...

BEIJING, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Top Chinese officials led by President Xi Jinping gathered in the Great Hall of the People on Monday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of late leader Jiang ...

HANOI, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Vietnam's aviation authority said warnings of a tail strike on the runway and low tyre pressure were triggered shortly after a Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787 took off from Munic...

(Corrects lede to 'military-backed government', not 'military government') Aug 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military-backed government has verified that nearly 309,000 displaced people in camps in Banglad...

Aug 17 (Reuters) - At least six people died and several were injured in an incident police suspect was triggered by a falling electricity pole that alarmed a crowd of worshippers at a temple in India'...