Brazil judge says president’s ex-chief of staff may have been bribed
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A federal judge in Brazil overseeing a sweeping corruption investigation said on Tuesday there were signs that President Dilma Rousseff’s former chief of staff had received bribes.
Guatemala court approves bid to impeach president, Congress to decide
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – The Guatemalan Supreme Court on Tuesday approved a request by the country’s attorney general to impeach President Otto Perez over his suspected involvement in a racket to siphon customs revenue from the government, and passed…
Brazil money launderer testifies former presidential candidate took bribe
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Convicted Brazilian money launderer Alberto Youssef testified to lawmakers at a congressional hearing on corruption on Tuesday that former opposition presidential candidate Aecio Neves took bribes from a corruption scheme involvin…
Toll of Syrian air strikes near Damascus rises to 247 in 10 days: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government air strikes on areas east of Damascus have killed 247 people in the last 10 days, including 50 children, and wounded 1,000 more people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
Latin America’s Trump? Venezuelan leader rejects comparison
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is used to being attacked by critics as a communist dictator, but one label the Latin American socialist was not expecting was to be compared to U.S. tycoon and Republican presidential candidate D…
French prosecutor says train gunman had ‘terrorist intent’
PARIS (Reuters) – The Paris prosecutor on Tuesday dismissed a claim by the gunman disarmed by passengers on a train between Amsterdam and Paris that he had been planning a robbery, and opened an investigation into “attempted murder with terrorist inten…
U.S. reports 36 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies carried out 36 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria on Monday, a U.S. military statement said.
Russian court jails two Ukrainians for ‘terrorism’ in Crimea
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian court sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov on Tuesday to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for “terrorist attacks” in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Moscow from Ukraine in April 2…
‘The wave has reached us:’ EU gropes for answers to migrant surge
ROSZKE, Hungary (Reuters) – A surge in migrants, many of them refugees from Syria, hit Hungary’s southern border on Tuesday, passing through gaps in an unfinished barrier to a Europe groping for answers to its worst refugee crisis since World War Two.
Gunman kills four in French travellers’ camp
PARIS (Reuters) – A drunken gunman shot dead three members of the same family in a travellers’ camp in northeastern France on Tuesday before killing a gendarme who arrived on the scene, police said.
