Dutch to withdraw seven ‘essential’ helicopters from Mali
UNITED NATIONS/BAMAKO (Reuters) – Dutch forces are preparing to withdraw seven “essential” helicopters from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, with no clarity yet on how they will be replaced, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Guatemala police raid rival gangs, more than 100 arrested
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemalan police captured 106 suspected gang members in a series of raids against warring gangs responsible for a wave of drug violence, authorities said on Thursday.
New Brazil speaker marks return of center-right party to main stage
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A college dropout born in exile during Brazil’s long military dictatorship was elected as the new speaker of the house for Latin America’s biggest nation, thrusting his center-right party back into the spotlight amid deep…
Oxfam urges U.S. to end embargo on struggling Cuba
HAVANA (Reuters) – The director of Oxfam broke the global aid agency’s longtime silence on the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, urging the American Congress to lift it “sooner rather than later” given the island’s mounting economic woes.
Obama will meet with Mexican president at White House on Friday, July 22
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Friday, July 22, at the White House, the White House said.
Writer Esterhazy, postmodern chronicler of Hungary, dies at 66
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian writer Peter Esterhazy, whose postmodern novels chronicled life under communism and its aftermath, died on Thursday aged 66, weeks after publishing a book about his pancreatic cancer.
U.N. asks Saudi to show how coalition prevents Yemen child deaths
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pushed Saudi Arabia on Thursday to provide information on actions they are taking to prevent the killing and wounding of children in Yemen as Riyadh said it was conducting its military opera…
Russian spy service punishes trainee agents for showy public celebration
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service said on Thursday it would punish dozens of new agents who celebrated graduating from the agency’s training academy by ostentatiously driving through Moscow in a luxury convoy allowing themselves to be ph…
Uganda troops in South Sudan to evacuate citizens after violence
JUBA (Reuters) – Uganda’s army began evacuating citizens from inside neighboring South Sudan on Thursday where fighting between forces loyal to the president and his rival has plunged the nation into its worst crisis since the end of a two-year civil w…
Global call to development banks: don’t fund projects that violate human rights
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – International development banks should ensure their investments do not violate human rights or risk the lives of the activists who defend them, a group of global campaigners said on Thursday.
