Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Bakeries smashed in Israel bombardment key to Gaza hunger crisis
GAZA (Reuters) - The rubble and twisted metal of Kamel Ajour's smashed-up Gaza bakery underscores one reason starving people in the north of the bombarded enclave are reduced to eating raw cactus leav...
Feb 28, 2024
Armenia to boycott meetings of Russia-led alliance after membership freeze -TASS cites PM
TBILISI (Reuters) - Armenia said on Wednesday it would not attend meetings of a Russian-led military alliance and that it had no permanent representation at the bloc under a "de facto freeze" of its m...
Feb 28, 2024
US trade chief rules out WTO dispute deal this week but says mood is positive
By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Wednesday ruled out an agreement on World Trade Organization dispute settlement appeals reform this week but said...
Feb 28, 2024
Israeli plan to expand settlements helped trigger U.S. shift in language
By Humeyra Pamuk and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel's plan to add thousands more homes to settlements in the occupied West Bank announced last week was the final push the Biden administra...
Feb 28, 2024
Activists criticise civil society 'restrictions' at WTO meeting in UAE
By Emma Farge, Rachna Uppal and Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Civil society organisations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in the United Arab Emirates this week have criticized...
Feb 28, 2024
Ghana's parliament passes anti-LGBT law
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that clamps down further on the rights of LGBT people. A coalition of Christian, Muslim, and Ghanaian traditional leaders have sponsored...
Feb 28, 2024
Cuba reschedules five-fold fuel price hike for March 1
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba`s government said it plans to reschedule an unpopular five-fold increase in gasoline prices for March 1, a month later than initially planned after officials said its systems h...
Feb 28, 2024
U.S. consular officials visit Paul Whelan in Russia prison -embassy
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States embassy in Russia said on Wednesday that U.S. consular officials visited Paul Whelan, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who is imprisoned in Russia for espionage, in pri...
Feb 28, 2024
Russian court sentences man to 10 years in treason case
(Reuters) - A military court in Moscow has sentenced a 33-year-old man to 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of treason and other crimes, a Russian lawyers' association said on Wednesday. Vya...
Feb 28, 2024
Jail sentence on Memorial's Orlov is 'politically motivated', Nobel body says
OSLO (Reuters) - The committee awarding the Nobel Peace Prize said on Wednesday it was "appalled" by the jail sentence imposed on Russian human rights activist Oleg Orlov, one of the leaders of Memori...
Feb 28, 2024
