Key Mexican official in missing students probe resigns
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A senior Mexican official who played a central role in the troubled investigation into the 2014 abduction and apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers has stepped down from a top government crime-fighting agency.
Brazil’s Lula charged as ‘top boss’ of Petrobras graft scheme
CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors charged ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday with being the “boss” of a vast corruption scheme at state oil company Petrobras, in a major blow to the leftist hero’s hopes of a political …
Facebook post inspires landmark case for migrant workers in Thailand
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tun Tun Win and his co-workers from Myanmar thought life was fine at the Thammakaset chicken farm in central Thailand, where they reared hundreds of thousands of birds for export to the European Union.
‘Lack of options’ force 4 million to flee from one conflict to another: report
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For Ahmad al-Rashid, fleeing from his home in Aleppo, northern Syria, to Iraq in 2013 was the safest choice he had.
U.S., Israel sign $38 billion military aid package
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will give Israel $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade, the largest such aid package in U.S. history, under a landmark agreement signed on Wednesday.
Obama, meeting with Suu Kyi, says U.S. ready to lift Myanmar sanctions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi called on Wednesday for the lifting of economic sanctions against her country, and President Barack Obama, in their first White House meeting since she became leader, said the United States was ready to…
IMF board approves $1 billion loan disbursement to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said its board on Wednesday approved a long-awaited loan disbursement to Ukraine of about $1 billion after a review of the country’s bailout program.
U.S. confirms two more freed Guantanamo inmates rejoined militant groups
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the first six months of 2016, two more militants released from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to fighting, the U.S. government said on Wednesday.
No challengers to Kim emerge from World Bank leader nominations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nominations for the World Bank’s next leader have closed with current president Jim Yong Kim the only candidate nominated, the bank said on Wednesday, virtually guaranteeing him another five-year term.
Kerry, Lavrov agree Syria truce holding, extend it by 48 hours
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Russia agreed that the Syrian cessation of hostilities that began on Monday had largely held and should be extended for another 48 hours despite sporadic violence, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday…
