Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) World News (Master Feed)
Australia's property tax overhaul unpopular with voters, polls show
SYDNEY, May 18 (Reuters) - Australia's centre-left government is facing voter blowback after breaking election promises to roll out the biggest changes to investment taxes in decades in its latest bud...
May 17, 2026
Earthquake hits southwest China; thousands evacuate, buildings collapse
BEIJING, May 18 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.2 earthquake in China's southwest region of Guangxi early on Monday killed two and forced more than 7,000 in the city of Liuzhou to evacuate as search and res...
May 17, 2026
Philippines to convene court for VP impeachment amid political turmoil
By Karen Lema MANILA, May 18 (Reuters) - The Philippine Senate was due to convene as an impeachment court on Monday that could decide the future of Vice President Sara Duterte, with a heated battle be...
May 17, 2026
Russian attacks kill one, injure more than 30 in Ukraine overnight, officials say
May 18 (Reuters) - Russia launched drones, airstrikes and shelling at Ukraine overnight, targeting cities such as Odesa in the south and Dnipro in the southeast, killing one person and injuring more t...
May 17, 2026
Venezuelan mother dies 10 days after state confirms missing son died in custody
May 17 (Reuters) - Carmen Navas, the 82-year-old mother who spent nearly a year searching for her detained son in Venezuela, has died just 10 days after the government confirmed he had died in state c...
May 17, 2026
G7 finance chiefs seek to tackle imbalances in wake of bond selloff
By Leigh Thomas, David Lawder and Makiko Yamazaki PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - G7 finance ministers met in Paris on Monday, looking to find common ground on tackling economic tensions and global imbalanc...
May 17, 2026
Hantavirus-hit liner reaches Rotterdam, crew being quarantined and ship disinfected
By Charlotte Van Campenhout ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, May 18 (Reuters) - A luxury liner at the centre of an outbreak of hantavirus docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday, where authorities were...
May 17, 2026
Russia destroyed over 3,000 Ukrainian drones last week, RIA says
May 18 (Reuters) - Russia has intercepted and destroyed at least 3,124 Ukrainian drones over the past week, the RIA state news agency said, citing data from the Defence Ministry. RIA, after compiling ...
May 17, 2026
North Korea's Kim calls to make border with South Korea an 'impregnable fortress'
SEOUL, May 18 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said plans to strengthen frontline units on the border with South Korea, as well as other major units, were key to "more thoroughly deterring ...
May 17, 2026
Military jets' crew members safely ejected after Idaho air show collision, Navy says
By Matt Tracy WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - Four crew members involved in a mid-air collision of military jets at an air show ejected safely on Sunday outside Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, t...
May 17, 2026
