Violence, drugs dash Mexico Triqui people’s dream of new start far from home
San Quintin, BAJA CALIFORNIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In Baja California, Gabino Bautista yearns for his homeland thousands of miles south of the northern Mexican state, but the bullet wounds in his body remind him he can never go back. 
Pipe bomb explodes on overpass near Istanbul metro, five hurt: local mayor
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Five people were injured when a pipe bomb exploded on an overpass near an Istanbul metro station on Tuesday, the district mayor said, halting some train operations and heightening security fears in Europe’s biggest city.
Suspected Islamists in Paris court in first trial since attacks
PARIS (Reuters) – The trial began in Paris on Tuesday of seven suspected Islamists, including an alleged Islamic State ‘executioner’ in Syria — the first such case to go to court since the group killed 130 people in the French capital last month.
French trust in Hollande grows after Paris attacks
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande’s popularity has risen to its highest level in three years with voters backing his robust handling of the Nov. 13 militant attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, two polls showed on Tuesday.
Tunisian woman working for Red Cross in Yemen kidnapped in capital: local officials
DUBAI (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Tunisian woman working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen as she was leaving home for work in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, the ICRC and local officials said.
Lithuania says Russian military activity stoking tension in Baltics
LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s deployment of troops close to Lithuania and its unannounced military exercises in surrounding Baltic areas have heightened tensions in the volatile region, Lithuania’s defense minister said.
Israeli government, military disagree over unrest
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Two months into a wave of stabbings, shootings and vehicle attacks by Palestinians targeting Israelis, gaps are emerging between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the military and intelligence chiefs over what is driving the viol…
After leaders’ rhetoric, climate negotiators start work on deal
PARIS (Reuters) – With encouragement from 150 world leaders ringing in their ears, government negotiators in Paris sought on Tuesday to turn that rhetoric of unity into the text of a global deal to slow climate change.
Burkina Faso president-elect pledges to go beyond reviving economy
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s president-elect, Roch Marc Kabore, promised on Tuesday to tackle “fundamental needs” such as sanitation and to revive an economy that has flagged since a popular uprising toppled his veteran predecessor 13 months …
Rights groups press for French army probe on Rwanda genocide
PARIS (Reuters) – Human rights groups are demanding that French soldiers active in Rwanda in 1994 be formally put under investigation on suspicion of complicity in the genocide at that time.
