Cuba reinstates limits on doctors leaving the country
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba on Tuesday re-imposed limits on doctors leaving the country, saying its universal and free healthcare services have been “seriously affected” by the flight of vital medical specialists.
Obama urges Turkey to reduce tensions with Russia
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama urged Turkey on Tuesday to reduce tensions with Moscow after the downing of a Russian warplane and to seal its border with Syria to choke off the supply of money and fighters to Islamic State militants.
Colombia declines rebel extradition to U.S. amid FARC peace talks
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia has for the first time declined to extradite to the United States a Marxist FARC rebel accused of drug trafficking, as peace negotiations approach a March deadline.
U.N. condemns air strike that cut water supplies to Syria’s Aleppo
GENEVA (Reuters) – An air strike on a water treatment plant in Syria last Thursday cut water supplies for 3.5 million people and while pumping has been partly restored, 1.4 million still have reduced supply, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Merkel cabinet backs German role in military campaign against IS
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will join the military campaign against Islamic State (IS) insurgents in Syria under plans approved on Tuesday by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet — a big step for a major European power that long resisted a direct role in…
North Korean ghost boats, in deadly hunt for fish, wash up in Japan
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – Fishing boats carrying decomposed corpses have washed ashore in Japan in recent weeks, leading to speculation they are rickety North Korean vessels that have strayed dangerously far from port under the impoverished nation’s push…
British PM Cameron says government unanimous on Syria strikes, unlike opposition
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday his government had unanimously agreed a motion on air strikes against militants in Syria, portraying the ruling party as united on an issue that has split the Labour opposition.
Diplomats see Yemen’s Hadi undermining U.N. peace talks
DUBAI (Reuters) – Efforts to launch peace talks to end an eight-month-old war in Yemen are being thwarted in part by Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who fears a negotiated settlement would drive him from power, diplomats who follow Yemen…
Cash squeeze maims Venezuela’s pre-election food imports
PUERTO CABELLO, Venezuela (Reuters) – In June, President Nicolas Maduro smiled as he sealed a multimillion-dollar food import deal with his Uruguayan counterpart designed to combat shortages ahead of Venezuela’s legislative elections.
Let pregnant girls return to school in Tanzania, campaigners plea
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Emily Nyoni was enjoying studying at Bunju secondary school in Dar es Salaam and hoped to pursue medical studies to become a doctor until she found out she was pregnant and was expelled.
