Sweden reopens case against Italian surgeon over patient deaths
Swedish prosecutors said they would reopen a criminal negligence investigation against an Italian surgeon in connection with the deaths of three patients at a hospital linked to the institute that awards the Nobel Prize for medicine.
Critics label Putin a hypocrite for attending veteran dissident’s wake
Kremlin critics accused President Vladimir Putin of hypocrisy for attending the wake on Tuesday of a veteran Soviet and Russian dissident who was a staunch critic of his administration.
India’s Modi stares at biggest election losses since coming to power
India’s ruling party looked set to lose power in three key states, official vote counts showed on Tuesday, likely handing Prime Minister Narendra Modi his biggest defeat since he took office in 2014, and only months ahead of a general election.
Time ‘Person of Year’ goes to journalists, including imprisoned Reuters pair
Time magazine on Tuesday named a group of journalists, including a slain Saudi Arabian writer and a pair of Reuters journalists imprisoned by Myanmar’s government, as its “Person of the Year,” in a cover story headlined “The Guardians and the War on Tr…
Six migrants rescued from dinghy in busy UK shipping lane
Six suspected migrants were rescued from a dinghy in the English Channel just off the port of Dover early on Tuesday morning, the interior ministry said.
Yemeni prisoner swap will take weeks, Red Cross says
A prisoner swap in Yemen will take weeks and may involve the repatriation of third country nationals captured in the nearly four-year war, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday.
U.N. seeks withdrawal of warring parties from Yemen’s Hodeidah: sources
The United Nations is proposing that all armed forces from Yemen’s warring parties withdraw from the port city of Hodeidah and that an interim entity be set up to run the city, a lifeline for millions of people in the country’s war, sources said.
Former Canadian diplomat detained in China: sources
A former Canadian diplomat has been detained in China, two sources said on Tuesday, and his current employer, the International Crisis Group, said it was seeking his prompt and safe release.
EU to offer Swiss six more months to agree new treaty: sources
The European Commission decided on Tuesday to offer Switzerland six additional months to agree on a new treaty that will govern the country’s future relations with the European Union, two EU sources told Reuters.
Americans venture back to Cuba as hurricane memories, U.S. tensions fade
U.S. travel to Cuba is bouncing back a year after Hurricane Irma and the Trump administration delivered a one-two punch to visits by Americans to the once-forbidden island, according to data from the Cuban Tourism Ministry.
