U.S. Navy offers to help recover bombs from Great Barrier Reef
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy on Tuesday offered Australia any help it wanted to retrieve four bombs mistakenly dropped inside the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park last week.
Kazakhstan says oligarch’s wife could return to Italy: newspaper
ROME (Reuters) – Kazakhstan will let a dissident oligarch’s wife return to Italy as long as she is returned for trial if necessary, an Italian newspaper reported on Tuesday, the latest twist in a case that has strained relations in Italy’s fragile coal…
Worthless land could prolong Spanish banks’ property woes
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish banks may have to swallow more losses to shake off the legacy of a property crash, real estate experts warn, as they struggle to sell plots of land that have ended up on their books and which are now worth less than many have…
Huge crowds in Brazil welcome pope back to home continent
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrived in Brazil on Monday on his first foreign trip as pontiff and was swarmed by well-wishers as he drove into Rio de Janeiro, where more than one million people are expected to gather to see the first Latin A…
Ukrainian charged with murder of Muslim pensioner in Britain
LONDON (Reuters) – A Ukrainian man being questioned about explosions at mosques in central England was charged on Monday with murdering a Muslim pensioner.
China quakes death toll rises to 89, hundreds injured
BEIJING (Reuters) – The death toll from two earthquakes in China’s western Gansu province has climbed to 89, with more than 500 people severely injured, after 1,200 buildings collapsed and tens of thousands more were badly damaged, said the official Xi…
Explosion at Ternium Mexico steel plant kills two, wounds 12
MONTERREY (Reuters) – Two people were killed and 12 wounded in an explosion at Italian-Argentine steelmaker Ternium’s Guerrero plant in Nuevo Leon state in northern Mexico, the company said on Monday.
Colombia’s FARC offers arms, support to Catatumbo protesters
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebels offered armed support to a rural protest in the Andean nation’s volatile northeast – a gesture that could ignite violence and increase friction as the Marxist group seeks a negotiated peace with the government….
Huge crowds in Brazil welcome pope back to home continent
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrived in Brazil on Monday on his first foreign trip as pontiff and was swarmed by well-wishers as he drove into Rio de Janeiro, where more than one million people are expected to gather to see the first Latin A…
Top U.S. officer outlines options for military force in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. military officer said in a letter released on Monday that American forces could undertake a range of missions to help Syrian rebels if asked by the White House, from providing training to establishing no-fly zones or…
