Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
EU asylum database malfunctions on migration pact launch day
BRUSSELS, June 12 (Reuters) - The European Union's central asylum database, Eurodac, suffered a technical malfunction on Friday, the day the bloc's landmark migration and asylum pact went into force, ...
Thomson Reuters 15h ago
US deports Iranian pro-democracy activist to Central African Republic, lawyer says
By Robbie Corey-Boulet DAKAR, June 12 (Reuters) - The United States has deported an Iranian pro-democracy activist to Central African Republic, her lawyer said on Friday, describing it as a "super dan...
Thomson Reuters 16h ago
Ukraine hikes military pay and seeks more foreign fighters, Zelenskiy says
By Olena Harmash KYIV, June 12 (Reuters) - Ukraine will hike military wages and seek to recruit more fighters abroad, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday, as the army faces a manpower shortag...
Thomson Reuters 16h ago
Defence resignation exposes spending bind for Starmer - and any challengers
By Alistair Smout and Andrew MacAskill LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) - Keir Starmer has a new defence minister, but the same problem: no spare money, competing political and financial demands and a party ...
Thomson Reuters 16h ago
Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to overturn crypto fraud conviction
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried on Friday lost his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence over the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange he...
Thomson Reuters 17h ago
Explainer-What is the Swiss population cap proposal and what would it mean for Europe?
ZURICH, June 12 (Reuters) - Switzerland will decide on Sunday on a proposal to cap the population at 10 million in a referendum some have likened to Britain's Brexit vote that could have far-reaching ...
Thomson Reuters 17h ago
UK PM Starmer says he has not lost authority, will fight to stay in job
LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday rejected the idea that he had lost authority in his role, and said he would fight to keep his job, adding that anyone who want...
Thomson Reuters 17h ago
Spain opens new probe into ex-PM Zapatero over jewellery found in office
MADRID, June 12 (Reuters) - A Spanish High Court judge investigating former Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero for suspected corruption has opened a separate probe over jewellery found during...
Thomson Reuters 17h ago
UN labour organisation sets first global gig work standards
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, June 12 (Reuters) - The International Labour Organization agreed on Friday to adopt the first binding employment standards for gig workers in sectors such as ride-hailing...
Thomson Reuters 18h ago
Sicily By Car founder under police protection after arson attacks
ROME, June 12 (Reuters) - The founder and chairman of Italian car rental company Sicily by Car, Tommaso Dragotto, said in an interview on Friday he had been given a police escort after a string of att...
Thomson Reuters 18h ago

