Nicaragua’s Ortega picks wife as running mate, pledges joint rule
MANAGUA (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega picked his wife on Tuesday to run as his vice presidential candidate ahead of November elections, in a vote in which the leftist politician and his party are heavily favored to win a third consecut…
Venezuela names general accused of drug crimes by U.S. as minister
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday named a military general accused of drug crimes by the United States as his new interior minister and removed from the cabinet his top economic official who was viewed as a potential re…
Obama, Singapore leader push Pacific trade deal in state visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Singapore’s prime minister on Tuesday made sales pitches for a Pacific Rim trade deal that both U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have derided and that has been stalled in Co…
China casts HK protest teenager as ‘American-led Western power’
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s top prosecution body has cast a thin, bespectacled teenage activist from Hong Kong as a pro-independence advocate backed by the United States in an online video that warns against uprising movements across the country.
Newly elected protectionist senators could harm Australia’s trade ties
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Four weeks after Australians went to the polls in a tightly contested election, vote counting is almost finished and has left the government with a razor-thin majority and a Senate brimming with economic protectionists who could hind…
Desperate and depressed, Syrian refugees in Greece regret leaving home
ATHENS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – If Mustafa had known what it would be like living in a refugee camp in the Greek capital, he would never have left Syria.
Colombia destroys 104 cocaine labs in five days
GUAVIARE, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombian law enforcement has destroyed 104 cocaine laboratories capable of producing some 100 tonnes of the drug annually, the head of the anti-narcotics police said on Tuesday.
Bangladesh’s missing militant link: the threat from abroad
DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – When Bangladeshi authorities last month released the names of 261 men who have gone missing from their families, in an attempt to find militants hidden in this country of 160 million people, at the very end of the list was “…
Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian chemist Zewail dies
CAIRO (Reuters) – Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died on Tuesday in the United States, his spokesman told Egypt…
Japanese PM Abe to pick hawkish ally for defense in cabinet rejig
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was widely expected to appoint conservative ally Tomomi Inada as defense minister on Wednesday, a move that could upset China and South Korea, while keeping key ministers in their posts in a cabinet …
