‘Time is on our side’, says EU in showdown over Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – If there is a consistent message the European Union has tried to send since Ukraine rejected a trade deal last November in favor of stronger ties with Moscow, it is that it does not want to end up in a tug-of-war with Russia.
Colombia’s FARC says ex-president behind spying on peace talks
HAVANA (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebels accused former President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday of involvement in alleged spying on government negotiators at peace talks in Cuba, and said their delegation’s communications were also intercepted.
Russia may move company head offices east in Asia pivot
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday ordered officials to draft plans to move the head offices of some state-owned companies to far eastern Russia as part of an effort to develop the region, a senior official said.
Venezuelan arrests at Cuba baseball protest stir local politics
CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan opposition party demanded on Wednesday that President Nicolas Maduro’s government release seven protesters arrested following a weekend fracas outside the hotel of a visiting Cuban baseball team.
Insight: Brazil spies on protesters, hoping to protect World Cup
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian security forces are using undercover agents, intercepting e-mails, and rigorously monitoring social media to try to ensure that violent anti-government protesters do not ruin soccer’s World Cup this year, officials told …
Officials say Russian bombing mastermind may have been killed
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) – Russian security forces said on Wednesday they had killed a militant who may have masterminded suicide bombings that killed 34 people in the southern city of Volgograd in December and raised fears for the security of the…
Protesters, police clash over factory closures in Bosnian town
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Twenty-two people, including 17 police officers, were injured and 24 arrested when protesters in the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla clashed with police on Wednesday over the closure of local factories and firms.
U.S. freezes assets of Pakistan-based Haqqani militants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Wednesday moved to freeze assets of three suspected militants linked to the Haqqani network, which has been blamed for being behind brazen attacks on U.S. and Western targets in Afghanistan.
NATO raps Russia for expanding border into Georgia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO criticized Russia on Wednesday for expanding its border deeper into Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region, a move Moscow has portrayed as a temporary step to expand a security zone around the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Defendant in Rwanda genocide trial in France says was ‘mere agent’
PARIS (Reuters) – Rwanda’s former intelligence director denied charges of crimes against humanity and complicity in the 1994 genocide and told a Paris court on Wednesday he did not participate in “the descent into chaos” in his homeland.
