Mexico extradites drug lord ‘El Chapo’ to U.S. on eve of Trump inauguration
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mexico extradited its most notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to New York on Thursday, likely ending a decades-long criminal career that included two jail breaks, the day before Donald Trump assumes…
China asks foreign diplomats for closer cooperation in anti-graft war
BEIJING (Reuters) – China asked foreign diplomats in Beijing to help “weave a cooperative network against corruption,” state media reported on Friday, as Beijing seeks greater international cooperation in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s four-year war on…
Hopes fade of finding survivors buried under avalanche in Italy
PENNE, Italy (Reuters) – Hopes of finding survivors dwindled on Thursday more than 24 hours after an avalanche struck a luxury mountain hotel in Italy burying up to 30 people under tonnes of snow and debris.
West African military halt Gambia operation, issue Jammeh deadline
BANJUL/DAKAR (Reuters) – West African armies halted an operation in Gambia aimed at installing the country’s new president, Adama Barrow, on Thursday so regional leaders could make one last attempt to convince longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh to step aside….
Mexico’s El Chapo: From most wanted kingpin to extradited jailbird
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s most notorious kingpin who escaped two maximum-security jails, shipped countless tonnes of drugs around the world and became one of the world´s most-wanted fugitives, was extradited to the United States on Thursday.
Brazil Supreme Court judge handling graft probe killed in plane crash
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki, who was overseeing a graft investigation into scores of powerful politicians, was killed in a plane crash on Thursday, raising questions about who will take over the country’s bigges…
Hamon shown winning France’s left-wing primaries debate: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Former Education Minister Benoit Hamon was seen as the winner of the final French left-wing primary television debate among candidates for the Left’s nomination in the 2017 presidential election, a poll published immediately afterward…
U.S. strikes in Libya kill more than 80 Islamic State fighters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 80 Islamic State militants, some of whom were believed to be plotting attacks in Europe, died in U.S. air strikes on camps outside the group’s former North African stronghold of Sirte in Libya, the United States said on…
Syria’s Assad hopes for ‘reconciliation’ deals from Astana talks
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he believed peace talks in Kazakhstan would lead to local “reconciliation” deals with rebels, a sign of his confidence in a process launched by his Russian allies after the opposition’s defeat in…
North Korea may be readying missile test, timing unclear: U.S. officials
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has seen indications that North Korea may be preparing for a new missile test-launch in the coming days or weeks, U.S. officials said on Thursday, in what could be an early test of President-elect Donald T…
