Canada prosecutors charge driver in Lac-Megantic railway crash
TORONTO/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian authorities on Monday charged Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd (MM&A) and three employees with criminal negligence following last summer’s train derailment in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that killed 47 people.
China detains man for selling “false” reports to foreign website
BEIJING (Reuters) – Police in Beijing have detained a man for selling and posting “fabricated information” to a foreign website, state media said on Tuesday, as China tightens its grip on the Internet ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Squa…
Leader of China’s anti-graft fight tells state-owned firms to behave
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top graft-buster has told the country’s state-owned industries that they also have a responsibility to follow the ruling Communist Party’s rules on fighting corruption, state media said on Tuesday, as Beijing broadens its gr…
Mexico readying legal defense in sugar dispute with U.S.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is getting ready to defend its sugar producers in a dispute over allegations of dumping made by U.S. competitors, Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said on Monday.
Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has offered to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for its prisoners, according to a video posted on YouTube on Mond…
Hundreds of Chinese families seek wartime compensation from Japan
BEIJING (Reuters) – As relations between China and Japan plumb a new low, the descendants of hundreds of Chinese men forced to work in wartime Japan are taking big, modern-day Japanese corporates to court. They are seeking millions in compensation.
UK Cameron’s party in poll lead for first time in over two years
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party took the lead in two opinion polls ahead of European elections, the first time it has led the opposition Labor party in a national opinion poll for more than two years.
Nearly half of people around world fear torture in custody: Amnesty
BERLIN (Reuters) – Nearly half of people around the world fear becoming a victim of torture if taken into custody, a poll for human rights organization Amnesty International showed on Tuesday.
As elections near, polls show Europeans feel disconnected from Brussels
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – With just over a week to go until European Parliament elections, two separate polls on Monday suggested around two-thirds of Europeans feel their voices are not heard in Brussels, although trust in the European Union is rebounding …
Iran and IAEA end talks, unclear if progress made
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran ended a three-hour meeting on Monday without announcing any new action to allay concerns about Tehran’s atomic activities, leaving it unclear whether headway was achieved.
