Cuba names counter-intelligence chief as Interior Minister
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba on Monday named Vice Admiral Julio Cesar Gandarilla to the powerful post of Interior Minister, replacing Fernandez Godin, who died on Friday at the age of 78.
Japan says always gathering information on North Korea’s nuclear missiles
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is always gathering and analysing information on North Korea’s nuclear missile situation with great interest, its top government spokesman said on Tuesday.
Norway seeks to overturn ruling it violated killer Breivik’s rights
SKIEN, Norway (Reuters) – Norway will appeal on Tuesday against a court ruling that it violated the human rights of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik by keeping him too isolated in jail after he massacred 77 people in 2011.
Taiwan courts Central America after U.S. visit angers China
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen praised Honduras for its loyalty on Monday at the start of a trip to four Central American nations aimed at strengthening ties, days after she met U.S. lawmakers in Texas on a visit that angered …
More women lawmakers needed in UK as numbers ‘shockingly low’: report
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of women parliamentarians in Britain is “shockingly low” and the government should set targets to achieve equal representation by 2030, British lawmakers said in a report on Tuesday.
Iraq special forces advance in east Mosul, close to linking with army
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi special forces made further advances against Islamic State in Mosul on Monday, pushing militants from another eastern district and edging closer to army units nearby, officers in the city said.
U.S. sanctions Russia’s top investigator, four others for rights abuses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Monday blacklisted Alexander Bastrykin, Russia’s top investigator and a close aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and four other Russian officials for human rights abuses.
Gambia minister defects amid political impasse
DAKAR (Reuters) – Gambia’s communication minister, Sheriff Bojang, said on Monday he had left his post in the first high-profile Cabinet defection since President Yahya Jammeh refused to accept losing a December election.
Venezuela Congress says Maduro ‘abandoned post’; Congress called ‘disobedient’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-led Congress on Monday approved a resolution declaring that President Nicolas Maduro had “abandoned his post,” a symbolic move unlikely to break a year-long stalemate between the executive and the legislature….
Italy reopening embassy in Libya two years after closure
ROME (Reuters) – Italy is sending its ambassador back to Libya, its foreign ministry said on Monday, making it the first Western diplomatic mission to reopen in the divided country.
