Approval of Venezuelan leader drops as crisis bites: poll
CARACAS (Reuters) – Just over one in four Venezuelans approves of President Nicolas Maduro’s governance as a crippling economic crisis weighs on the leftist leader, according to a leading pollster.
Congo opposition leader Katumbi says will run for president in November
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Moise Katumbi, the multi-millionaire former governor of Democratic Republic of Congo’s copper mining region and a prominent opposition leader, said on Wednesday he would run for president in an election slated for November.
EU proposes scheme to share out asylum seekers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission proposed a system to distribute asylum seekers across the EU on Wednesday that aims to ease the load on states like Greece and Italy but drew immediate condemnation from governments in Eastern Europe.
Egypt hands over phones records to Italian investigators: source
ROME (Reuters) – Egypt has sent Italian investigators some phone records they had requested as part of their probe into the torture and killing of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo earlier this year, a legal source said on Wednesday.
Brazil Senate report recommends Rousseff impeachment trial
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The senator charged with studying President Rousseff’s impeachment recommended on Wednesday that she be put on trial for breaking budget laws, bringing the embattled leftist leader one step closer to suspension from office.
NATO approves Israeli representation to its headquarters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO said on Wednesday it had agreed to non-member Israel setting up representation at its Brussels headquarters, a tentative sign of rapprochement between the Jewish state and NATO member Turkey.
Russia warns of retaliation as NATO plans more deployments in Eastern Europe
MOSCOW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia will reinforce its western and southern flanks with three new divisions by the year-end, officials said on Wednesday, threatening retaliation to NATO’s plans to boost its military presence in eastern members Poland an…
Poverty, despair, hunger for revenge drive young Syrians to extremist groups: research
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The need to earn a basic living, a desire for a sense of purpose and revenge are key factors that push young Syrians into joining extremist groups, a peacebuilding group said on Wednesday.
Colombia to get U.S. support to fight crime gangs: Santos
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The United States will provide intelligence to support Colombia in its fight against crime gangs, considered the biggest threat to the Andean nation’s security, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Wednesday.
Russia’s FSB says arrests group planning attack in Moscow region – agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had arrested a group of central Asian citizens who were planning an attack in the Moscow region during May holiday celebrations, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday.
