Former Mexican official arrested on U.S. drug trafficking charges
A former Mexican government official has been arrested on U.S. charges that he allowed the Sinaloa Cartel to operate in Mexico in exchange for multimillion-dollar bribes, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn announced on Tuesday.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro calls activist Thunberg a ‘brat’
Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro called Swedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg a “brat” on Tuesday after she criticized mounting violence against indigenous people in which two Amazon tribesmen were shot dead three days ago.
For Paris train driver, strike action is a family affair
Most days, Yannick Stec drives a Paris metro train through tunnels beneath the Arc de Triomphe, but on Tuesday he was on strike and marching above ground to protect France’s public services from a government he said is bent on undermining them.
Austria’s Handke receives Nobel Literature Prize amid protests, criticism
Demonstrators braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to protest against the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke because of his support for the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
U.S. bars former Saudi diplomat in Turkey from entering U.S. over Khashoggi murder
The United States on Tuesday barred from entering the country Mohammed al Otaibi, the former Saudi consul general in Istanbul in October 2018, when Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed there, the U.S. State Department said.
Factbox: EU’s big climate change week: what to expect
The European Union will quicken its battle against climate change this week, with the announcement of a Green Deal by the new European Commision on Wednesday and a summit on Thursday at which leaders will seek to endorse the goal of making the EU clima…
French workers take pension fight back to the street
Strikes against pension reforms shut schools and caused transport chaos around France on Tuesday, but the number of people taking to the streets appeared to have dropped off from last week in a positive sign for President Emmanuel Macron.
Factbox: Where is France’s public sector strike being felt the hardest?
Strikes against pension reforms shut dozens of schools and caused transport chaos around France on Tuesday but the number of people participating in the industrial action appeared to have dropped off.
Russia jails 11 for St Petersburg metro bombing
A Russian court jailed 11 people on Tuesday for plotting a suicide bombing on the St Petersburg metro that killed 15 people and injured scores during a visit by President Vladimir Putin to his home city in 2017.
Chile defense minister: chances of finding survivors in missing aircraft ‘difficult’
Chile’s defense minister Alberto Espina said on Tuesday that the possibility of finding any survivors in a missing Air Force cargo plane carrying 38 people was “difficult”.
