Colombia sends suspected drug kingpin to United States
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Colombia has extradited suspected drug kingpin Daniel Barrera to the United States to face charges of drug trafficking and money laundering, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday.
U.S. says encouraged by Egyptian transition plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday cautiously welcomed a plan from Egypt’s interim government to hold quick elections but did not address “the elephant in the room” of whether a military coup had taken place.
Remains of rocket fired from Egypt found in Israel
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops found the remains on Tuesday of the first rocket to be fired from Egypt since the July 3 overthrow of the Islamist government there, a military official said.
Russia: Syria rebels likely behind Aleppo chemical attack
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russian scientific analysis indicates a deadly projectile that hit a suburb of the Syrian city of Aleppo on March 19 contained the nerve agent sarin and was most likely fired by rebels, Russia’s U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.
Snowden has not yet accepted asylum in Venezuela: WikiLeaks
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela, the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said on Tuesday after a Russian lawmaker posted a statement to that effect on Twitter and then delet…
As Japan PM Abe weighs labor reform, IBM emerges as test case
TOKYO (Reuters) – When 27-year IBM veteran Martin Jetter came to Tokyo last year, the new president of the technology giant’s Japanese arm had a radical idea: hold workers accountable for performance.
NSA ‘spied’ on most Latin American nations: Brazil paper
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has targeted most Latin American countries in its spying programs, with Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico ranking among those of highest priority for the U.S. intelligence agency, a leading Br…
New Egypt PM an international economist
CAIRO (Reuters) – Handed the task of rescuing an Egyptian economy in dire straits, new interim prime minister Hazem el-Beblawi has a long record in economic management – and possibly vital personal contacts in the Gulf.
Rows over Egypt’s constitutional decree signal hurdles ahead
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s main political players raised objections on Tuesday to a new constitutional decree, highlighting challenges the military-backed transitional administration might face in reaching consensus to end the crisis and hold new electi…
Afghan officials skeptical as U.S. mulls complete withdrawal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is considering pulling out all its troops from Afghanistan next year but is far from making a decision, White House and Pentagon officials said on Tuesday, but Afghan officials expressed skepticism that Presiden…
