Mexican president hints may be open to change in marijuana laws
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico and the United States cannot pursue diverging policies on marijuana legalization, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto was quoted as saying on Sunday, hinting he may be open to following the lead taken by some U.S. states…
Sao Paulo metro strike to continue Monday despite court ruling
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Sao Paulo’s metro workers voted to stay off work for a fifth day on Monday even after a court declared the strike illegal, complicating preparations for the World Cup opening match.
Female suicide bomber hits Nigerian barracks: witnesses
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) – A female suicide bomber killed herself and a soldier outside an army barracks in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Gombe on Sunday, the military said, as local leaders reported the death count from a string of earlier m…
Afghanistan says Pakistan-based group involved in Abdullah attack
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan said on Sunday the intelligence unit of a foreign country and the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group based in Pakistan were involved in the failed assassination attempt on presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah.
France’s Marine Le Pen rebukes father in new anti-Semitism row
PARIS (Reuters) – Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front (FN), rebuked her father and former party head on Sunday for remarks reviving long-standing allegations of anti-Semitism soon after a major poll victory.
Exit poll in Kosovo puts ruling party narrowly ahead
PRISTINA (Reuters) – An exit poll in Kosovo gave the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) a narrow lead on Sunday with 33 percent in a parliamentary election marked by frustration among Kosovars over poverty and corruption.
World leaders face pressure to act against sexual violence at UK summit
LONDON (Reuters) – The kidnapping of 200 Nigerian girls and several recent horrific murders of women is expected to raise pressure on the world community to take concrete action to punish those responsible for sexual violence at a global summit in Lond…
Italy rescues 5,200 boat migrants since Thursday, three dead
ROME (Reuters) – Italy has rescued about 5,200 men, women and children and recovered three dead bodies from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean Sea since early Thursday.
Syria becoming warlord-run failed state: former peace envoy
BERLIN (Reuters) – Syria is descending into a Somalia-style failed state run by warlords which poses a grave threat to the future of the Middle East, former peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said.
Senior U.S., Iran, EU officials to meet on Monday-Tuesday in Geneva
ANKARA/DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian, U.S. and European Union officials will start two days of talks about Tehran’s nuclear programme on Monday, Iran said, giving its first word about what appears to be a bid to rescue faltering wider negotiations on endin…
