Britain summons Thai envoy over backpacker murders
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has summoned the Thai charge d’affaires in London to raise concerns over the police investigation into the murder of two British backpackers in Thailand, the Foreign Office said on Monday.
German student shot by police in Mexican state of Guerrero
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A German student was shot and wounded when police in southwest Mexico opened fire on the vehicle he was traveling in, authorities said on Monday, the latest violence involving security forces.
Bolivia’s Morales to stick to pragmatic leftist policies in new term
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales, who easily won a third term in a weekend election, said on Monday he would stick to his brand of pragmatic socialism, respecting private property while expanding the state’s role in the economy.
Three suicide attacks hit Kurdish town on Syria-Turkey border
AMMAN (Reuters) – Three Islamic State fighters blew themselves up on Monday in Kobani near the Turkish border with Syria, a monitoring group said, with the hardline militants making slight advances inside the besieged Kurdish town.
Berlin and Paris seek reform proposals to avert policy clash
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German and French economy ministers have asked experts in Berlin and Paris to come up with reform recommendations for both countries in an apparent attempt to avert a full-blown clash between the euro zone heavyweights over econo…
Authors see chance for breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations
HAVANA (Reuters) – The authors of a new book detailing 55 years of informal communications between the United States and Cuba see a rare opportunity to normalize relations, provided President Barack Obama wants to seize the moment.
Rousseff puts Cardoso, 83, at core of Brazil’s election battle
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Under pressure in Brazil’s closest election race in decades, President Dilma Rousseff is centering her campaign around a familiar bogeyman – an 83-year-old former president associated with a more turbulent, elitist era.
Sudan’s Popular Congress Party to boycott 2015 election
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – One of Sudan’s main opposition parties will boycott elections set for April because a lack of democracy will not allow a fair vote, a senior party official said on Monday, diminishing the credibility of the ballot.
French tourists avoid Tunisia after traveler’s beheading in nearby Algeria
BERLIN (Reuters) – Tunisia lost about a third of its French tourist bookings to cancellation shortly after the beheading last month of a French traveler by Islamist militants in neighboring Algeria, the country’s tourism minister said on Monday.
More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island on Monday, and all but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh, according to local officials.
