Mexico repatriates fake reporters convicted on drug charges
MANAGUA (Reuters) – Eighteen Mexicans convicted on drug-trafficking charges after posing as television journalists while entering Nicaragua with $9.2 million were repatriated on Monday from the Central American nation.
China rules private clubs off-limits for party officials
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party has banned officials from belonging to or visiting private clubs, saying they are often used as venues for illicit deals or sexual liaisons, in the latest move to stamp out pervasive corruption.
Week-long Aleppo air raids kill more than 300: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – More than 300 people have been killed in a week of air raids on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and nearby towns by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, a monitoring group said on Monday.
Three killed in an explosion in Egypt’s Nile Delta
CAIRO (Reuters) – Three people were killed and more than 50 hurt in an explosion at a security building in Egypt’s Nile Delta town of Dakahlyia on Tuesday, state media and a security source said.
Hundreds protest against Egypt’s jailing of activists
CAIRO (Reuters) – Hundreds of Egyptians protested in central Cairo on Monday against a court ruling that sent three leading secular pro-democracy campaigners to jail, witnesses said.
South Sudan rebel leader sets out conditions for talks
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar told Reuters on Monday he was ready to negotiate with President Salva Kiir to bring an end to the nine-day conflict if Kiir first released his detained political allies.
U.N. approves India’s request to accredit diplomat charged by U.S.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations has approved a request from India to accredit a New York-based diplomat after her arrest by U.S. authorities on criminal charges including visa fraud, a U.N. official said on Monday.
Italy’s ‘St Valentine’s Beast’ serial killer jailed in France
NICE, France (Reuters) – An Italian serial killer known as the “St Valentine’s Beast” who fled to France after being allowed out of prison to visit his mother was sentenced to jail by a French court on Monday.
Economic fears expose Laos’ unequal boom
VIENTIANE (Reuters) – For the Communists running Laos, the fruits of capitalism have never been so bountiful.
Israel frees Palestinian prisoner after hunger-strike deal
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel freed a Palestinian prisoner from jail on Monday, completing a deal agreed earlier this year in exchange for him halting a lengthy hunger strike that almost killed him.
