Mexico’s president-elect shuns guards, asks ‘people’ for protection
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador left the country’s national palace on Tuesday in the front passenger seat of a white Volkswagen Jetta, swarmed by hundreds of jubilant supporters including one waving a live ro…
Former Malaysian premier Najib arrives at court to face charges
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities brought former Prime Minister Najib Razak to court on Wednesday, where he is expected to face multiple charges over alleged graft at a former unit of scandal-tainted state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad…
Former Malaysian premier Najib set to be charged in court
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was set to be charged in court on Wednesday as part of investigations into how billions of dollars went missing from a state fund he founded.
The cover-up: Malaysian officials reveal just how much 1MDB probe was obstructed
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The government of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak spent years systematically obstructing probes into the alleged looting of state fund 1MDB, while also ruthlessly muzzling critics, according to current and former go…
Cuban environmentalist ‘prisoner of conscience’ says free on parole
HAVANA (Reuters) – The Cuban environmentalist activist Ariel Ruiz Urquiola who was on a hunger strike to protest his sentencing to a year in jail for contempt of authorities said on Tuesday that he had been freed on parole after an unusually broad c…
Trump will tell NATO nations U.S. cannot be the world’s piggy bank
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will tell fellow NATO countries at next week’s summit that the United States cannot be “the world’s piggy bank,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Tuesday.
Poland faces turmoil over contested overhaul of Supreme Court
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland faced the specter of institutional turmoil and an escalation of tensions with the European Union on Wednesday, with the head of the Supreme Court refusing to comply with reforms that force her to retire.
Pompeo to visit Mexican president-elect; discuss immigration, trade
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Mexico on July 13 to meet President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and discuss immigration, trade, security and development, the U.S. and Mexican governments said on Tuesday.
Son of Islamic State leader killed in Syria’s Homs: IS news channel
CAIRO (Reuters) – A son of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in the city of Homs in Syria, the group’s news channel reported on Tuesday.
Rebels discuss with Russia a deal to end fighting in southern Syria
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian rebel negotiators began a new round of talks with Russian officers on Tuesday over a peace deal in southern Syria under which they would hand over weapons and allow Russian military police to enter rebel-held towns, a rebel spo…
