Venezuela expels three U.S. diplomats, protests rumble
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela gave three U.S. diplomats 48 hours to leave the country on Monday, accusing them of conspiring against the government to incite protests that were the OPEC nation’s most serious violence since President Nicolas Maduro’s Ap…
Asylum seekers injured in incident at PNG centre: Australia
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A group of people seeking asylum in Australia rioted and breached fences at a Papua New Guinea processing centre, the second serious incident in two days, Australia’s immigration minister said on Tuesday.
Honduras murder rate falls in 2013, but remains world’s highest
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The murder rate in Honduras, the Central American country with the world’s highest number of homicides per capita, fell last year according to a United Nations-affiliated report released on Monday, although the number of “atroci…
Former president Chirac hospitalised, life not in danger: source
PARIS (Reuters) – Former French President Jacques Chirac was admitted to a hospital near Paris on Monday for examinations due to pain linked to gout, a source close to his family said.
Netanyahu says Israeli high-tech stronger than boycotters
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced confidence on Monday that world demand for Israeli high technology will enable his country to outflank pro-Palestinian groups advocating its economic boycott.
Bomb attacks kill at least 24 in Iraq capital
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 24 people were killed in bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital late on Monday, including blasts near two Shi’ite Muslim mosques and at a busy bus station, police and medics said.
Nigeria Islamists better armed, motivated than army: governor
ABUJA (Reuters) – Islamist militant group Boko Haram is better armed than the Nigerian military force fighting it, the governor of the region worst hit by the insurgency said on Friday after more than 100 people died in a village raid.
Pakistani couple stoned to death for adultery; six arrested
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – A couple were stoned to death for adultery in a remote area of Pakistan’s western Baluchistan province, an official said Monday, leading to six men being held on suspicion of murder.
South Sudan army denies using cluster bombs after fragments found
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s army on Monday denied using cluster bombs in its fight with rebels, shrugging off a U.N. report that fragments of the widely-banned explosives had been found.
EU’s Reding warns Brexit would isolate London’s City
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – London’s financial services center would lose access to the wider European Union should Britain quit the bloc, the EU’s justice chief said on Monday, warning that such a move would reduce its status to that of an offshore center
