Two migrant youths from Honduras killed in Mexico: officials
The bodies of two slain Honduran migrant youths were found in the Mexican border city of Tijuana over the weekend, officials said on Tuesday, in a sign of the dangers facing Central Americans in Mexico as they seek asylum in the United States.
U.S. envoy on North Korea to visit South Korea amid stalled nuclear talks
A U.S. envoy on North Korea is to visit South Korea, officials said on Wednesday, as Washington and Pyongyang struggle to find a breakthrough in their stalled talks aimed at ending the North’s nuclear program.
U.S. State Department clears $3.5 billion sale of Patriot missiles to Turkey
The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $3.5 billion sale of Patriot air and missile defense systems to Turkey, the Pentagon said on Tuesday after notifying Congress of the certification.
Cuba panel closes door on gay marriage constitutional amendment
The commission in charge of writing Communist-run Cuba’s new constitution has revised an original draft to remove the concept of marriage altogether after originally amending it to open the doorway to same-sex unions.
Minor UK opposition parties table vote of no confidence in government
The Scottish National Party (SNP) and other minor British opposition parties have tabled a vote of no confidence in Theresa May’s Conservative government, the SNP said on Tuesday.
UK to unveil details of post-Brexit immigration system
Britain’s interior minister Sajid Javid will on Wednesday publish plans for a post-Brexit immigration system that would bring net migration to the UK down to “sustainable levels”, his department said.
Cuba’s president, steeped in era of hours-long lectures, turns to Twitter
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said his office would shortly launch a new website, Twitter account and Youtube channel as part of his bid to harness the digital era to better communicate government policy to an ever-more connected people.
UK PM May urges devolved nations to back her Brexit deal
British Prime Minister Theresa May will urge the devolved nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to “listen to business” at a meeting on Wednesday and back her Brexit deal, which envisages continuing close ties with the EU.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he will target Venezuela, Cuba
Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that he would take all action “within the rule of law and democracy” to oppose the governments of Venezuela and Cuba.
Trump willing to look at extraditing Turkish cleric, but noncommittal
U.S. President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that Washington “would take a look at” the possibility of extraditing a U.S.-based Muslim cleric who Ankara suspects of being behind a 2016 coup attempt, but he made no commitment,…
