Mexico to grant residency to 588 stranded Cubans
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico said on Friday it would grant residency permits to 588 Cubans who were stranded in the north of the country after the United States ended its “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy, which had given legal status to almost every Cuban…
Macau billionaire’s aide pleads guilty in U.N. bribe case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The assistant to a billionaire real estate developer from Macau accused of engaging in a scheme to pay bribes to a former United Nations General Assembly president pleaded guilty to a single tax charge on Friday.
Mali, France rule out talks with jihadists after attacks
BAMAKO (Reuters) – France and Mali on Friday ruled out any talks with jihadist groups responsible for repeated attacks on Malian and foreign forces, rejecting calls to bring them to the negotiating table.
Paraguay president’s re-election bid unsettles his corporate allies
ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguayan business groups are urging the country’s Congress to abandon a proposal that would allow President Horacio Cartes to seek re-election, fearing popular outrage could jeopardize his administration’s progress in attracting …
Exclusive: Mexico opens up its heroin fight to U.S., U.N. observers
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – For the first time in at least a decade, Mexico’s army is allowing the United States and the United Nations to observe opium poppy eradication, a step toward deeper cooperation to fight heroin traffickers, three sources in Mexico said.
Islamic State kills dozens of civilians trying to flee Mosul: witnesses
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have killed dozens of civilians attempting to flee Mosul in recent days, hanging several dead bodies from electricity poles as Iraqi forces fight to retake the city, witnesses said.
Despite tough talk, Turkey caught between U.S. and Russia in Syria
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish calls for tough action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after U.S. missile strikes on one of his airbases may overestimate Washington’s appetite for deeper involvement in Syria’s war and threaten Ankara’s fragile ra…
About 20 wedding guests dead as boat sinks in southwestern Myanmar
YANGON (Reuters) – Some 20 people died and about a dozen were missing on Friday after a wooden boat carrying about 60 wedding guests hit a cargo ship and sank in southwestern Myanmar, local officials said, in the third big marine accident in the countr…
At U.S.-China summit, Trump presses Xi on trade, North Korea; progress cited
PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) – President Donald Trump pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping to do more to curb North Korea’s nuclear program and help reduce the gaping U.S. trade deficit with Beijing in talks on Friday, even as he toned down the strident …
Venezuela opposition leader Capriles says barred from political office
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader and two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said on Friday he has been banned from holding political office for 15 years, amid what critics say is a crackdown on dissent by the leftist governme…
