Mexico court frees vigilante leader involved in fatal firefight
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A judge in the violent Mexican state of Michoacan has ordered that a jailed vigilante leader involved in a firefight late last year that killed 10 people should be freed, a spokeswoman for the state judiciary said on Monday.
Venezuela’s Maduro says U.S. sanctions seek to topple his government
CARACAS (Reuters) – A furious Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday U.S. sanction measures were intended to topple his socialist government.
EU parliament refers French far-right to anti-fraud office
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Parliament said on Monday it had alerted the EU fraud squad to possible abuses of funding for lawmakers’ assistants by the French far-right party the National Front.
Egyptian president pushes U.S. for military aid in Fox News interview
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Egypt’s president called for increased U.S. military aid and creation of a regional coalition to fight Islamic State in an interview with Fox News that aired on Monday, just days before the United States sends its top diplomat to…
Ten reported dead in apparent helicopter collision in west Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Ten people were killed when two helicopters apparently collided in the mountainous western Argentine province of La Rioja on Monday, a local government official said, without offering details on the identities of the victims.
Tepid reaction as U.N. issues new women’s rights declaration
UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World leaders on Monday pledged to ramp up action to achieve gender equality by 2030, but some women’s rights activists were impatient with new promises after sluggish progress made in the past 20 years.
Forty years after escaping war, ‘boat people’ find fortune back in Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) – As one of the Vietnam War’s final battles raged four decades ago, Quynh Pham lay with her mother in a field covered in a stranger’s blood. They survived only by pretending to be dead.
U.N. delays approval of Libya request for weapons, jets: diplomats
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – At least eight United Nations Security Council members delayed approval on Monday of a request by Libya to import weapons, tanks, jets and helicopters to take on Islamic State militants and monitor its borders, diplomats said…
U.S. declares Venezuela a national security threat, sanctions top officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Monday declared Venezuela a national security threat and ordered sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country in the worst bilateral diplomatic dispute since socialist President Nicolas Maduro …
Kurdish forces attack Islamic State west of Kirkuk
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Kurdish forces drove Islamic State militants back from the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Monday, in an advance backed by heavy air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition.
