Former Mexican president Fox urges marijuana legalization
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Former Mexican President Vicente Fox took his crusade to legalize marijuana to San Francisco on Monday, joining pot advocates to urge the United States and his own country to decriminalize the sale and recreational use of cann…
Turkish police fire water cannon to prevent park protest
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon on Monday at protesters who tried to defy a closure order and enter an Istanbul park at the center of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Brazil to probe local telecom operators over alleged U.S. spying
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s telecommunications agency said on Monday it would investigate whether local operators had violated customer privacy rules in alleged surveillance of Brazilian telecommunications data by U.S. spy agencies.
Snowden affair clouds U.S. attempts to press China to curb cyber theft
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Revelations by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden will make it harder for the United States to confront China at talks this week over the alleged cyber theft of trade secrets worth hundreds of billions of dollars ea…
Exclusive: Congress delaying U.S. aid to Syrian rebels – sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional committees are holding up a plan to send U.S. weapons to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad because of fears that such deliveries will not be decisive and the arms might end up in the hands of Islamist…
Insight: From power to protest, Egypt’s Brotherhood fights for life
CAIRO (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood is facing an old adversary in the fight of its life, but has few means to confront the Egyptian military that has swept it from power. Reduced to camping out on the Cairo streets, all it can do, it seems, is mou…
Egypt to hold parliamentary vote in about six months
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will hold new parliamentary elections once amendments to its suspended constitution are approved in a referendum, the interim head of state decreed on Monday, setting out a timeframe that could see a legislative vote in about si…
Brazil to probe local telecom operators over alleged U.S. spying
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s telecommunications agency said on Monday it would investigate whether local operators had violated customer privacy rules in alleged surveillance of Brazilian telecommunications data by U.S. spy agencies.
Bin Laden’s life on the run revealed by Pakistani inquiry
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden lived in plain sight for almost a decade and was once even pulled over for speeding but not apprehended, thanks to the incompetence of Pakistan’s intelligence and security services, an official report into his kill…
Brazil now looking for Portuguese, Spanish doctors, not Cubans
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Brazilian government, under pressure to improve public health services, has dropped plans to import a contingent of Cuban doctors and is instead looking to hire physicians in Spain and Portugal, the Health Ministry said on Mond…
