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.
Obama pledges to help Africa, pays tribute to Mandela
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama paid tribute to anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela as he flew to South Africa on Friday but played down expectations of a meeting with the ailing black leader during an Africa tour promoting …
Peru peasant squads rally against U.S. firm’s $5 billion gold mine
CAJAMARCA, Peru (Reuters) – Forty years ago, peasants in rural Peru banded together as “ronderos” – Spanish for “people who make the rounds” – to curb cattle rustling.
