Pompeo to visit Mexico, president-elect Lopez Obrador says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Mexico soon to meet with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Mexican president-elect said on Tuesday, adding that his transition team would work in lockstep with current negotiators on…
Bruised but still standing: Merkel survives coalition migrant dispute
BERLIN (Reuters) – Angela Merkel’s face-saving deal with her conservative allies in Bavaria shows how indispensable the chancellor is to her party – even if she is weakened.
Ex-Brazil tycoon Batista handed 30-year sentence for corruption
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Eike Batista, the former mining and oil magnate who was once Brazil’s richest man, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for bribing Rio de Janeiro state’s disgraced ex-governor, according to a court document published…
Mass rape, cannibalism, dismemberment: U.N. team finds atrocities in Congo war
GENEVA (Reuters) – Rebels and government troops in Congo have committed atrocities including mass rape, cannibalism and the dismemberment of civilians, according to testimony published on Tuesday by a team of U.N. human rights experts who said the worl…
Former Brazilian tycoon Batista gets 30-year corruption sentence
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Eike Batista, the mining and oil magnate who was once Brazil’s richest man, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for bribing Rio de Janeiro state’s disgraced former governor, according to a court document published on…
Russia, U.S. discuss preparations for Putin-Trump summit in Helsinki
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed preparations on Tuesday for the summit in Helsinki between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Syrian rebels begin new talks with Russia over peace deal: spokesman
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…
War forces Yemen high school students to flee to capital to take exams
SANAA (Reuters) – Fighting in a port city in Yemen has forced around 2,000 high school students to flee to the capital to sit exams, braving a six-hour journey along a mountain road scarred by land mines and aerial bombardment.
French hostage’s son searches for mother in West African desert
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Sebastian Petronin sat slumped over a laptop watching a video of his mother, in a headscarf and looking frail and tearful, the latest proof the 72-year-old is alive nearly two years after she was kidnapped by jihadists and held in th…
Syria rebels begin new talks with Russia over peace deal: rebel spokesman
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian rebel negotiators began a new round of talks with Russian officers on Tuesday over a peace deal in southern Syria that would hand over their weapons and allow Russian military police to enter rebel-held towns, a rebel spokesman…
