Venezuela government aims to sink Maduro recall, opposition protests
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government sought on Tuesday to scupper a push by the opposition to oust him this year via a referendum, while his opponents called for protests.
Mexico opposition blasts stats agency for changes in poverty survey
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Opposition lawmakers criticized Mexico’s independent statistics agency on Tuesday for changes in polling techniques in a survey that suggested income among the poorest Mexicans had jumped by a third.
Kerry to meet Philippines’ Duterte on cooperation, China talks
MANILA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila on Wednesday to discuss his new government’s priorities as well as possible dialogue with China on resolving tensions over the South China Sea….
Patient shoots, kills doctor in Berlin then kills himself
BERLIN (Reuters) – A patient shot a doctor in a university clinic in Berlin on Tuesday before killing himself, but there were “no signs at all” of a link with Islamist militancy, police in the German capital said.
Kerry hopes to work with Russia on Syria, U.N. aims to restart talks
VIENTIANE/GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States said on Tuesday it hoped to announce in early August details of planned military cooperation and intelligence sharing with Russia on Syria, and a United Nations envoy said he would also aim to resume peace…
Obama says it is possible Russia would try to sway U.S. election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said it was possible that Russia would try to influence the U.S. presidential election, after a leak of Democratic National Committee emails that experts have attributed to Russian hackers.
Mali arrests leader of Islamist group linked to deadly attack on troops
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Malian forces arrested a regional leader of Islamist group Ansar Dine in central Mali on Tuesday, after it claimed an attack in the region that killed 17 soldiers, the army spokesman said.
Knife attacker in Japan kills 19 in their sleep at disabled center
SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) – A knife-wielding man broke into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo early on Tuesday and killed 19 patients as they slept, authorities said, Japan’s worst mass killing since World War Two.
Malaysia’s Najib gets new powers amid planned protests over fund scandal
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak will get sweeping security powers on Monday amid planned protests calling for his resignation over U.S. allegations that millions of dollars from a state fund wound up in his personal bank account.
U.N. warns South Sudan president over replacement of rival
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations warned South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Tuesday that any political appointments must be consistent with a peace deal that ended nearly two years of civil war after Kiir replaced his vice president and …
