Germany, France call for Minsk agreement to be fully effective by end 2015
PARIS (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande held a telephone conversation with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Friday to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine, the French presidency said.
Greek PM Tsipras sacks leftist party rebels in reshuffle
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sacked left-wing Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis and two deputy ministers on Friday as he reshuffled his cabinet following a party revolt against a tough new bailout deal adopted this week.
Legend of escaped Mexican kingpin Guzman grows in drug heartland
CULIACAN, Mexico (Reuters) – In the days since Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman turned a grubby corner of his prison cell into an escape hatch to freedom, the notorious drug lord’s legend has soared to new heights in the gang-infested landscape of his home tu…
German lawmakers back Greek bailout talks despite rebellion
BERLIN (Reuters) – German lawmakers gave their go ahead on Friday for the euro zone to negotiate a third bailout for Greece, heeding a warning from Chancellor Angela Merkel that the alternative to a deal with Athens was chaos.
Islamic State targeted in 26 air strikes by U.S.-led coalition: statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies conducted 26 air strikes against Islamic State targets on Thursday in another round of daily attacks on the militant group in Iraq and Syria, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Friday.
Brazil’s lower house speaker breaks with government
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, broke with the government of President Dilma Rousseff on Friday over corruption allegations, deepening a political crisis in Latin America’s largest economy.
For the first time, jihadist child beheads Syrian soldier, monitoring group says
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A child soldier recruited by Islamic State apparently has beheaded a Syrian army officer, the first such documented decapitation, the founder of a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Friday.
‘Our children should not forgive us’: Rwanda women killers recall genocide
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women jailed in a Kigali prison for murdering their Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide talk about the killings as if they are still trying to justify why they took part in one of the most notorious mass kill…
India, top sterilizer of women, needs new contraceptive ideas
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Eighty-five percent of India’s family planning budget is used to promote and conduct sterilizations on women, the head of a prominent charity said on Friday, calling for more funds to be channeled towards provid…
Mexico says U.S. sent extradition request for Guzman in June
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government received an extradition request from the United States for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman a couple of weeks before the drug lord’s escape from prison last Saturday, a government spokesman said on Friday.
