Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Czech citizen detained in China faces espionage investigation
BEIJING/PRAGUE, July 16 (Reuters) - A Czech citizen detained in China since the end of June is being investigated on suspicion of offences endangering national security, China's Foreign Ministry said ...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026
EU's top court upholds Spain's amnesty law for Catalan separatists
By Joan Faus BARCELONA, July 16 (Reuters) - A disputed Spanish law granting an amnesty to those involved in Catalonia's separatist drive does not violate European Union rules, the bloc's top court sai...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026
Trump hails release of US citizen held in Iran as 'goodwill' gesture
July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has called the release of a U.S. citizen held in Iran a "gesture of goodwill", even as conflict raged for a fifth night across the Middle East. Trump sa...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026
Syria foils attempt to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah from Iraq, state news agency says
DUBAI, July 16 (Reuters) - Syrian authorities said on Thursday they had foiled an attempt to smuggle advanced weapons and missiles across the border from Iraq, with state news agency SANA citing an In...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026
Fire at orphanage in Algiers kills 11, injures 19
ALGIERS, July 16 (Reuters) - Eleven people, including children, were killed and 19 injured in a fire at an orphanage close to the Algerian capital Algiers early on Thursday, authorities said. Locals a...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026
Zelenskiy's dismissal of Ukraine's defence chief sparks political crisis
By Yuliia Dysa, Max Hunder and Dan Peleschuk KYIV, July 16 (Reuters) - Rare protests erupted in Ukraine on Thursday over the dismissal of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov as a dispute between the ref...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026
Iran warns Strait of Hormuz is a 'red line' and will resist until the end
By Jana Choukeir and Nayera Abdallah DUBAI, July 16 (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz was an inviolable "red line", warning that if U.S. President Donald Trump carried out hi...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026
UK's Burnham takes small-town regeneration to the national stage as PM
By Elizabeth Piper and Andy Bruce MANCHESTER/LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) - For Britain's next prime minister, Andy Burnham, a sprawling car park in the centre of a former cotton-manufacturing town in no...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026
Rights groups urge Thailand not to deport Chinese journalist to China
BEIJING, July 16 (Reuters) - Two human rights groups have urged Thailand not to deport a Chinese journalist who investigated corruption in China, warning he would risk political persecution and tortur...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026
Russian regions report deaths, injuries after another night of Ukrainian drone attacks
MOSCOW, July 16 (Reuters) - Authorities in at least three Russian regions reported deaths and injuries inflicted by Ukrainian drone and rocket strikes overnight, as Kyiv's campaign against Russian ene...
Thomson Reuters Jul 16, 2026

