Peru slams U.N. agency for hiring former first lady under investigation
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru rebuked the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization on Wednesday for hiring former first lady Nadine Heredia as a Geneva-based director while she is a suspect in a money laundering inquiry.
Civilians flee as Shi’ite fighters near flashpoint town near Mosul
ERBIL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) – Thousands of Iraqi civilians have fled Tal Afar as Shi’ite paramilitary groups close in around the Islamic State-held town on the road between Mosul and Raqqa, the main cities of the militant group’s self-styled caliphat…
Intelligence gaps may have helped Afghan Taliban breach NATO fortress
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) – In the year before Qari Naib blew himself up on Nov. 12 inside a NATO base near Kabul killing four Americans, Afghan intelligence warned the U.S. military at least twice that a worker could be planning an attack, governm…
Venezuela opposition says Vatican-brokered talks ‘frozen’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition said on Wednesday talks with the government were “frozen” after officials failed to attend meetings, throwing cold water on Vatican-brokered attempts to bridge the country’s deep political crisis.
Venezuela refinery network operating at roughly a third: sources
CARACAS (Reuters) – Oil-rich Venezuela’s refinery network was operating at about a third of capacity, according to union sources and workers, as state oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] struggles with equipment issues after years of underinvestment.
Four workers dead in Cuba bridge collapse: Canada miner Sherritt
TORONTO (Reuters) – Four workers at a Sherritt International Corp joint venture in Cuba died on Tuesday, when a municipal bridge they were repairing collapsed, the Canadian miner said on Wednesday.
Fighting in Central African Republic kills 16 people
BANGUI (Reuters) – Two days of fighting between armed groups in Central African Republic has left 16 people dead including civilians while 10,000 have fled their homes, the U.N. peacekeeping mission MINUSCA said on Wednesday.
France’s Fillon seen winning conservatives’ primaries: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Former French prime minister Francois Fillon will win the conservative nomination for next year’s presidential election by a wide margin, an Ifop-Fiducial poll forecast ahead of a run-off vote on Sunday.
Navigation system failure cited in crash of European Mars lander
(Reuters) – Europe’s Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed last month after a sensor failure caused it to cast away its parachute and turn off braking thrusters more than two miles (3.7 km) above the surface of the planet, as if it had already landed, a rep…
Cameroon security forces arrest 100 at anti-discrimination protests
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Security forces in Cameroon arrested about 100 people during days of protests over alleged discrimination against minority English-speaking people, Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary and a senior security source said on We…
