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

MANILA (Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister criticised the Chinese coastguard's activities in the South China Sea, including its use of lasers and water cannon, during a visit on Thursday to the Phi...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been allowed to remain in hospital for medical treatment, the corrections department said on Thursday, citing the nee...

By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) - South Africa and Israel face each other at the top U.N. court on Thursday where judges will hear a South African case accusing Israe...

(Reuters) - Taiwan holds presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday, which will be watched closely by neighbour China as it views the island as a Chinese province. Taiwan's government reject...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fujitsu is under growing pressure over its role in a scandal in which hundreds of Post Office workers in Britain were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting because o...

(Reuters) - Sergei Udaltsov, a prominent Russian left-wing political activist, was arrested and charged with "justifying terrorism" on Thursday, state news agency TASS quoted Udaltsov's lawyer as sayi...

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, whose party is considered a front-runner to win general elections in February, will kick off his campaign next week...

By Vitalii Hnidyi and Thomas Peter NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Rows of white concrete barricades and coils of razor wire stretch across an open field for more than a kilometre. Trenches with ru...

By Ange Kasongo and Benoit Nyemba KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Congo River has risen to its highest level in more than 60 years, causing flooding throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Cong...

By Mohammed Salem, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Anthony Deutsch GAZA/THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Israel prepared to defend itself on Thursday at the top U.N. court against accusations of genocide in Gaza, as Prime...