Jailed opposition leader calls for more Venezuela protests
CARACAS (Reuters) – Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez urged sympathizers on Monday to maintain street protests against President Nicolas Maduro as the country’s foreign minister prepared to meet the United Nations Secretary General.
Italy PM Renzi loses government member over censorship claims
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi lost the first member of his government after an undersecretary resigned following allegations he had pressured a local newspaper not to publish a damaging story about his son.
Exiled Uighur leader urges calm after China attack
BEIJING (Reuters) – A prominent exiled Uighur leader has urged China’s government to respond calmly to a knife attack in the country’s southwest and not “demonize” ethnic Uighurs after Beijing blamed the mass killings on extremists from the far western…
‘Ethical gold’ aims to curb mining’s toll in South America
RELAVE, Peru (Reuters) – Tucked between two desert ridges in southern Peru, Relave looks like any of the hundreds of ramshackle mining towns that blight the landscape in the world’s sixth-largest gold exporter.
As China looks on, Putin poses risky dilemma for the West
(Reuters) – One senior Obama administration official called Vladimir Putin’s actions in the Ukraine “outrageous.” A second described them as an “outlaw act.” A third said his brazen use of military force harked back to a past century.
India’s Sahara chief, after arrest, faces highest court
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Subrata Roy, the self-styled managing worker of Sahara India Pariwar, India’s biggest private-sector employer, will appear before the Supreme Court on Tuesday after spending the weekend in custody at a government nature-res…
Scottish leader to take independence fight to London
LONDON (Reuters) – An independent Scotland would be a prosperous country that would retain close ties with the United Kingdom if voters choose to go it alone in the September 18 referendum, Scottish leader Alex Salmond will say on Tuesday.
Russian markets plunge as Putin tightens Crimea grip
MOSCOW/PEREVALNOYE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia paid a heavy financial price on Monday for its military intervention in neighboring Ukraine, with stocks, bonds and the rouble plunging as President Vladimir Putin’s forces tightened their grip on the Russ…
From India’s northern backwaters, a new business elite rises
PATNA, India (Reuters) – Ravindra Kishore Sinha built India’s largest security business from a garage in the dirt-poor state of Bihar. He has just won a seat in the upper house of parliament, becoming its richest member, and his Security and Intelligen…
Israeli air strike kills two in Gaza: officials
GAZA (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike on Monday killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who Israel’s military said had been preparing to launch a rocket across the border.
