Nicaraguan police take major anti-government stronghold
Hundreds of police and supporters of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stormed a major stronghold of anti-government protesters on Tuesday, tearing down cobblestone barricades in a symbolic blow against efforts to oust the Sandinista leader.
U.S. charges second Honduran congressman in drug trafficking conspiracy
Prosecutors from the United States on Tuesday charged Honduran Congressman Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States as a member of the Cachiros drug trafficking organization.
Thai cave boys’ first public appearance; locals, media wait for televised address
The 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach rescued from a flooded cave will make their first public appearance on Wednesday when they hold a nationally-televised news conference in Chiang Rai.
U.S. academic and critic of Beijing censorship will leave China after losing job
An American professor and vocal critic of Beijing’s censorship said he had lost his job at the prestigious Peking University and is leaving China.
Building collapse in Delhi suburb kills at least 2, more feared dead
A six-storey building collapsed into an adjacent construction site in Greater Noida near New Delhi killing at least two people, police said on Wednesday, as rescuers searched for more people feared trapped in the rubble.
Trump, seeking to calm political storm over Putin summit, says he misspoke
U.S. President Donald Trump tried on Tuesday to calm a storm over his failure to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, saying he misspoke in a joint news conference in Helsinki.
Nicaraguan police surround, attack anti-government stronghold
Nicaraguan security forces on Tuesday moved to clear barricades in a suburb of Masaya, a stronghold of protests against President Daniel Ortega, with rights groups reporting gunfire as police and armed civilians surrounded the area.
Syrian rebels, Iran reach deal to evacuate villages: sources
Syrian rebels and Iranian-backed negotiators have reached a deal to evacuate thousands of people from two rebel-besieged Shi’ite villages in northwestern Syria in return for the release of hundreds of detainees in state prisons, opposition sources said…
Second Honduran congressman charged in U.S. with drug traffic conspiracy
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday announced criminal charges against Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios, a Honduran congressman, accusing him of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States as a member of the Cachiros drug trafficking organization.
Lula’s party weighs Brazil northeast vote in search for stand-in: sources
Steadfast support for jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s poor northeast may give a former governor from the region an edge in the search for the leftist icon’s substitute, three Workers Party officials told Reuters this week….
