Police rescue 165 kidnapped migrants in Mexican border state
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican state police rescued 165 migrants who had been kidnapped while traveling to the United States in the crime-ridden border state of Tamaulipas, authorities said on Thursday.
Brazil’s Rousseff lets Obama off the hook for NSA spying
BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff said the Obama administration was not directly responsible for U.S. spying on Brazil and has taken steps toward smoothing over the diplomatic tensions set off by espionage disclosures last year.
Berlin tells CIA station chief to leave in spy scandal
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany told the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country on Thursday in a dramatic display of anger from Chancellor Angela Merkel at the behaviour of a close ally after officials unearthed two suspected U.S. spies.
World cities, home to most people, to add 2.5 billion more by 2050: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – More than half of the world’s seven billion people live in urban areas, with the top “mega cities” – with more than 10 million inhabitants – being Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Mexico City and Sao Paulo, according to a United Natio…
U.N. chief says de Mistura to be new Syria mediator
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday appointed veteran U.N. official Staffan de Mistura, a former U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq, to replace Lakhdar Brahimi as the international mediator seekin…
U.S. imposes sanctions on Lebanese firm for Hezbollah ties
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on a Lebanese consumer electronics company, saying it purchased supplies used to develop military drones for the militant Hezbollah movement.
Insurgents enter military base northeast of Baghdad: officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Sunni insurgents battling forces loyal to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki broke into a military base in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, a security source and a local official said.
Iran nuclear talks sides far apart, paper quotes UK’s Hague
VIENNA (Reuters) – Significant differences remain between six world powers and Iran in negotiations over its nuclear program, an Austrian newspaper quoted British Foreign Minister William Hague as saying.
Catalan language revival fuels backlash in Spain
CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT Spain (Reuters) – Francesca Munoz, the principal at Sant Miquel primary school near Barcelona, is fighting a linguistic crusade that has fueled a remarkable recovery of the local Catalan tongue – and of the region’s secessionist movement.
Bahrain charges opposition leader over meeting with U.S. diplomat
MANAMA (Reuters) – Bahrain has charged the country’s most senior opposition leader and one of his aides with holding an illegal meeting with a U.S. diplomat, the public prosecutor’s office said on Thursday.
