As Zimbabwe counts ballots, police warn against leaked election results
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe police vowed to crack down on any attempts to leak early results from Tuesday’s vote, complicating plans by some civic groups to pre-empt official announcements by the country’s election commission.
Yemen’s president meets senators as U.S. grapples with Guantanamo detainee issue
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi talked to U.S. senators on Wednesday as he to tries to persuade Washington to repatriate dozens of Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Cuba reports highest outflow of citizens since 1994
HAVANA (Reuters) – The number of Cubans leaving their country has increased steadily in recent years, the government reported on Wednesday, reaching levels not seen since 1994 when tens of thousands took to the sea in makeshift rafts and rickety boats….
Dissident Kazakh oligarch Ablyazov held in France: sources
LONDON/CANNES, France (Reuters) – Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh businessman accused of embezzling $6 billion from his former bank, BTA, has been arrested on the French Riviera, two sources said on Wednesday.
U.S. to go ahead with joint military exercise in Egypt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States still plans to hold a major military exercise called Bright Star in Egypt in mid-September, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday, even after the Egyptian military’s toppling of the president and …
U.N. says chemical weapons inspectors to visit three Syrian sites
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. inspectors will travel to Syria “as soon as possible” to investigate claims of chemical weapons use during the country’s civil war after President Bashar al-Assad’s government granted access to three sites, the United Na…
Rwanda says U.N. ultimatum threatened Congo peace talks
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Rwanda said on Wednesday the decision by a U.N. intervention brigade to forcibly disarm people in a strategic zone of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo had surprised African leaders and risked jeopardizing peace talks.
Phony rum kills seven in Cuba, dozens hospitalized
HAVANA (Reuters) – Seven Cubans have died and more than 40 have been hospitalized, eight in critical condition, after drinking wood alcohol, or industrial methanol, they thought was rum, the public health ministry said on Wednesday.
Uruguay Congress debates bill to regulate legal marijuana use
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Legislators in Uruguay hotly debated on Wednesday a measure backed by leftist President Jose Mujica that would create a government body to control the cultivation and sale of marijuana and allow people to grow it at home or as pa…
U.N. says chemical weapons inspectors to visit three Syria sites
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syria has agreed to allow U.N. investigators to visit three sites to investigate accusations of chemical weapons use during the country’s two year civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
