Mexico summons Uruguay ambassador over president’s comments on missing students
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico said on Sunday it was summoning Uruguay’s ambassador after Uruguayan President Jose Mujica said that the disappearance of 43 students in southwest Mexico suggests the country is a failed state.
Afghan women excluded from peace talks with Taliban: aid agency
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan women are excluded from efforts to negotiate peace with the Taliban and hard-won rights could be bargained away unless more is done to include them in the process, aid agency Oxfam said in a report on Monday.
Low voter turnout could erode Japan PM Abe’s call for fresh mandate
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese voters, puzzled as to why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is calling an election now and unimpressed by opposition alternatives, may shun a Dec. 14 election in record numbers.
Iraqi forces say retake two towns from Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi forces said on Sunday they retook two towns north of Baghdad from Islamic State fighters, driving them from strongholds they had held for months and clearing a main road from the capital to Iran.
Iran and powers set to extend nuclear talks if final push fails
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers looked set to miss Monday’s deadline for resolving a 12-year stand-off over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and are already looking at a possible extension of the negotiations.
Landmark Tunisian presidential election seen heading for run-off
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisians voted on Sunday to pick their first directly elected president, with the two major parties expecting a run-off as the final step in the North African state’s transition to full democracy following a 2011 revolution that oust…
Portugal ex-PM Socrates still in custody, more questioning Monday
LISBON (Reuters) – Police transferred Portugal’s former Socialist prime minister Jose Socrates back to his cell at a police station late on Sunday where he will spend a third night in a row after his shocking arrest and questioning in a corruption inve…
Multi-national crew blasts off for space station
A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan on Sunday to deliver three new crew members to the International Space Station, including Italy’s first female astronaut.![]()
France’s Hollande made left-wing voters feel betrayed: ex-partner
LONDON (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande suffers record low popularity because he has failed to deliver promised reforms and left left-wing voters feeling betrayed, his ex-partner Valerie Trierweiler said on Sunday.
Kenya says kills militants after bus ambush that killed 28
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan security forces have pursued and killed more than 100 militants and destroyed their camp in Somalia after the ambush of a Nairobi-bound bus that killed 28 people, Deputy President William Ruto said on Sunday.




