Mexico left-leaning party proposes limited energy reform
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s largest left-of-center political party has proposed a plan that would revamp state-oil monopoly Pemex, but without amending the constitution to permit more private investment in the oil, gas and electricity sectors, as …
Colombia’s ELN guerrillas say will release Canadian hostage in days
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s ELN guerrillas said on Monday they would release in the coming days a Canadian geologist they had kidnapped in January, a step the government has set as a pre-condition before it considers inviting the rebel group to peace…
Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood leader Badie: state media
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces have arrested the top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, state media reported on Tuesday, pressing a crackdown on his group.
U.S., Russian officials to meet in The Hague on Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leading diplomat from the U.S. State Department and the U.S. ambassador to Syria will meet with a Russia delegation in The Hague next week to discuss plans for a peace conference to end the civil war in Syria, a spokeswoman for…
Egypt security forces kill journalist after curfew starts
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces killed the bureau chief of a provincial office of state newspaper Al-Ahram on Monday after opening fire on a car they thought had tried to escape from a checkpoint enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew, the army sai…
Britain forced Guardian to destroy copy of Snowden material
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The editor of the Guardian, a major outlet for revelations based on leaks from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, says the British government threatened legal action against the newspaper unless it either destroy…
U.S. questions Egypt prisoner deaths, Mubarak may be freed
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court ruling has raised the prospect of freedom for deposed military strongman Hosni Mubarak, while the United States questioned Egypt’s account of the deaths of dozens of Islamist detainees and called the incident “suspic…
In Indian Kashmir, angry youth flirt with armed militancy
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Ishfaq first threw a rock at an Indian policeman six years ago. Now he’s thinking about arming himself with a gun.
U.N.’s Ban ‘deeply disturbed’ by Muslim Brotherhood deaths in Egypt
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he was “deeply disturbed” by the deaths in custody of 37 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and condemned an ambush by Islamist militants that killed 25 Egyptian po…
Assad’s forces push back rebels in Syria’s Alawite mountains
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian army and militia troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have pushed back a rebel offensive in the mountain heartlands of his Alawite sect, officials and activists said on Monday, after days of heavy fighting and aerial bomb…
