U.S. to seek extradition of Ukrainian industrialist
WASHINGTON/VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.S. government will ask Austria to extradite Ukrainian industrialist Dmytro Firtash to face charges filed in a Chicago court arising from an investigation into international corruption, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday…
French court sentences Rwandan ex-soldier for genocide role
PARIS (Reuters) – A Paris court sentenced a former Rwandan soldier to 25 years in jail on Friday for his role in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, in France’s first trial to punish those responsible for the three-month wave of violence.
U.S. prosecutors again indict Indian diplomat Khobragade
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A grand jury in New York has returned a new indictment against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud, two days after a U.S. judge dismissed a similar indictment because she had diplomatic immunity.
Sri Lanka arrests Tamil woman who pressed case for disappeared rebel son
COLOMBO (Reuters) – An ethnic Tamil woman who has become a prominent face in the effort to find out what happened to the tens of thousands who disappeared in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s 26-year war has been arrested, the main Tamil party TNA said o…
Dominican Republic homicide rate hits lowest level in 11 years
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – The homicide rate in the Dominican Republic plunged to an 11-year low in 2013 as the government used the military to back up the National Police, bucking the trend in the Caribbean where increased drug trafficking has brought …
Reconstruction of Timbuktu tombs begins in Mali
DAKAR (Reuters) – Malian masons on Friday began rebuilding mausoleums in the historic city of Timbuktu destroyed by Islamists during their occupation of the country’s north, the United Nations said.
Ahead of St. Patrick’s Day, Obama hails U.S.-Irish ties
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama met with Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny on Friday – and even sang along to an Irish folk song – three days ahead of St. Patrick’s Day as the two leaders held the annual celebration of U.S.-Irish relati…
Venezuela’s foreign minister calls Kerry ‘murderer’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s foreign minister lambasted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday as a “murderer” fomenting unrest that has killed 28 people in the South American OPEC member nation.
Israel fires into Lebanon after bomb targets its soldiers
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel fired tank rounds and artillery into southern Lebanon on Friday, its military said, in retaliation for a bomb that targeted Israeli soldiers patrolling the border.
Ukraine crisis hampers EU’s Central African Republic mission
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Ukraine crisis is hampering the European Union’s plans to send a peacekeeping force to Central African Republic because nervous eastern European countries want to keep their troops at home rather than send them to Africa, diplo…
