Cuba honors five spies who served long prison terms in U.S.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba President Raul Castro on Tuesday pinned medals on five spies, declaring them national heroes for infiltrating right-wing exile groups that plotted against Havana and for then enduring long prison terms in the United States.
Will a new UK law eradicate supply chain slavery?
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Whether it is high street fashion, bedding from a department store or eggs from a supermarket, few British shoppers would stop to ask whether slave labor was involved in making their goods.
States fail to protect civilians from militant violence: Amnesty
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Governments are failing to protect millions of civilians from violence by states and armed groups, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, describing the global response to widespread conflict from Nigeria to Syri…
U.S. Embassy reports threats to Americans in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan issued an emergency message on Tuesday warning of threats to Americans living in the capital Kabul.
U.S., Iran positive after nuclear talks, say much left to do
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States made some progress in talks with Iran on its nuclear program and managed to “sharpen up some of the tough issues”, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, but both sides said much remained to be done.
Cuba honors five spies who served long prison terms in U.S.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba President Raul Castro on Tuesday pinned medals on five spies, declaring them national heroes for infiltrating right-wing exile groups that plotted against Havana and for then enduring long prison terms in the United States.
Togo sets presidential election date for April 15
LOME (Reuters) – Togo has fixed April 15 as the date for a presidential election, a decree issued late on Tuesday stated, and incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe is expected to seek a third term in office in defiance of opposition calls for him to ste…
Venezuelan teen dies after being shot at anti-Maduro protest
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – A teenager was fatally shot at an anti-government protest in the western city of San Cristobal on Tuesday, state officials said, exacerbating tensions in Venezuela amid an economic crisis and crackdown on the politi…
Islamic State in Syria abducts at least 150 Christians
AMMAN (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday.
Rights group calls for U.N. arms embargo on Syria over barrel bombs
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syrian government troops carried out hundreds of indiscriminate aerial attacks in the past year, most with barrel bombs, in defiance of a United Nations Security Council demand to stop, a U.S. rights group said, calling for a…
