Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Northern Japan wildfires prompt mass evacuations as flames spread
TOKYO, April 24 (Reuters) - Two forest fires continued to spread toward residential areas in a northern Japanese town on Friday, prompting authorities to expand evacuation orders to more than 3,000 pe...
Apr 24, 2026
China holds live-fire drills in waters near Philippines' Luzon Island
(Corrects number of troops in second paragraph) BEIJING, April 24 (Reuters) - China's military said on Friday it recently conducted military drills including live-fire exercises in the waters east of ...
Apr 24, 2026
Pentagon email floats suspending Spain from NATO, other steps over Iran rift, source says
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support U.S. operations in the war with I...
Apr 24, 2026
US imposes sanctions on Cambodian senator and 28 others for alleged crypto-romance scams
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday imposed sanctions on Kok An, a wealthy Cambodian senator and ally of Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen, and 28 indivi...
Apr 24, 2026
Putin returns 'Iron Felix' Dzerzhinsky to Russia's spy school
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's Federal Security Service's spy academy to carry the name of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the...
Apr 24, 2026
Forty years after nuclear disaster, Ukraine's Chornobyl plant is haunted by war
By Dan Peleschuk and Sergiy Karazy CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Ukraine, April 24 (Reuters) - Denys Khomenko betrays no emotion recalling the night last year when a Russian strike drone tore into th...
Apr 24, 2026
No US-Iran peace talks in sight, but Islamabad maintains security lockdown
By Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD, April 24 (Reuters) - For nearly a week, Pakistan's capital has been waiting for peace talks between the U.S. and Iran to take place there, and although there is no sign the ...
Apr 24, 2026
War, drought, aid shortfall to fuel hunger in 2026, global report says
By Crispian Balmer ROME, April 24 (Reuters) - Conflict, drought and shrinking aid will keep global hunger at critical levels in 2026, with food insecurity expected to worsen in some of the world's mos...
Apr 24, 2026
Indonesia reaffirms it has no plan to impose tolls in Malacca Strait
By Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA, April 24 (Reuters) - Indonesia has no plan to impose tolls on ships passing through the Malacca Strait, its finance minister said on Friday, after his comments about mone...
Apr 24, 2026
France, Germany continue to work on fighter jet project, Macron says
NICOSIA, April 24 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday tasked their defence ministries with continuing to work on the contentious Franco-German F...
Apr 24, 2026
