South Africa’s Mandela ‘improving’ as Obama flies in
PRETORIA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s ailing anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela is doing much better in hospital, his ex-wife Winnie said on Friday, as U.S. President Barack Obama arrived for a visit that will pay homage to a man he calls …
Kerry steps up shuttle talks with Abbas and Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accelerated his Middle East shuttle diplomacy on Friday in the hope of persuading Israel and the Palestinians to resume direct peace negotiations.
Mexican ex-governor gets 11 years in U.S. for money laundering
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Mexican state governor was sentenced to 11 years in prison in the United States on Friday after pleading guilty to conspiring to launder millions of dollars in bribes from a notorious drug cartel.
Bombs hit Iraq funeral and football stadium, killing 22
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) – A series of bombs near a bakery, at a funeral, inside a senior police officer’s car and at a football stadium killed at least 22 people across Iraq on Friday, police and medics said.
Brazilian president’s plan to import doctors faces resistance
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff’s plan to import foreign doctors to work in rural and poor parts of Brazil, part of a move to quell massive street protests over poor public services, has run into stiff opposition from the powerful medica…
Exclusive: Fearing death, Congo’s ‘Terminator’ fled with help of family
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Facing defeat by a rival rebel and fearing death at the hands of Rwandan troops, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda quietly slipped into Rwanda on a small path with a single escort to turn himself in at the U.S. Embassy in Kiga…
In key Mexican state, opposition leads in poll for July vote
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s main opposition conservatives are on track to retain the key electoral bastion of Baja California next month, according to a poll released on Friday, in a vote that could strengthen a fragile cross-party alliance built …
Turkish security forces fire on protest in southeast, one dead
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish security forces killed one person and wounded ten on Friday when they fired on a group protesting against the construction of a new gendarmerie outpost in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey, a Kurdish party law…
Exclusive: Rwanda army officers aiding M23 rebels in Congo – U.N. experts
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Military officers from Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo are fueling violence in eastern Congo despite pledges by the countries to foster peace, according to a confidential U.N. experts’ report seen by Reuters on Friday…
U.S. citizen killed in Egyptian violence: officials
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen was stabbed to death in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Friday during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Mursi, a doctor and three security officials said.
