JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma’s elite guards overstepped their authority when they arrested and roughed up a student who they thought made an obscene hand gesture, a government commission said yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia and the U.S. drug agency have broken an airport drug ring in the world’s No.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Singaporean port operator PSA International Pte. Ltd. has quietly signed on to manage a container terminal under construction at the Cuban port of Mariel, sources close to the project said this week.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian President Michel Martelly chose a lawyer and former justice minister on Wednesday to be the country’s next prime minister, making a second attempt to fill the key government post.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch promised full cooperation yesterday to resolve a scandal shaking his media empire after British Prime Minister David Cameron promised an inquiry into what he called “disgusting” phone hacking by a newspaper.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s widely traded global bonds inched down yesterday after President Hugo Chavez’s return from cancer surgery in Cuba, which has left some doubts about how effectively he can govern.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was trying to wriggle out of comments that homosexuality was “unnatural and a foreign disease,” but critics said yesterday his prejudices made him unfit to head the ministry.
AL-QAWALISH, Libya, (Reuters) – Rebel fighters seized A village south of the Libyan capital and another group advanced towards Tripoli from the east yesterday in the biggest push in weeks towards Muammar Gaddafi’s main stronghold.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Syrian forces may have committed crimes against humanity when they crushed protests in the town of Tel Kelakh in May, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron led a chorus of condemnation yesterday over allegations a top-selling British newspaper from Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire hacked the voicemail of a missing schoolgirl who was later found murdered.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez saluted his people on their 200th anniversary of independence yesterday, looking pale but defiant after a triumphant return from cancer surgery in Cuba.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Muslim men after the fall of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, a Dutch appeals court ruled yesterday, opening the door to compensation claims.
LONDON, (Reuters) – In an analysis likely to fuel a long-running debate over the health impacts of too much salt, researchers have found no evidence that moderate cuts to salt intake reduce the risk of developing heart disease or dying prematurely.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A Mexican prisoner hoped to take a trip to freedom by packing himself into his girlfriend’s suitcase.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Authorities seized 1.1 tonnes of cocaine worth 42 million euros ($61 million) aboard a yacht sailing from the Caribbean to Europe, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said yesterday.
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian tanks surrounded Hama today, residents and activists said, threatening a large-scale assault on the city after the biggest protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Socialist Party said yesterday it was unlikely its erstwhile star Dominique Strauss-Kahn would enter the 2012 presidential race, despite the weakening of the sex assault case against him in New York.
TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian court sentenced former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in absentia yesterday to more than 15 years in prison for illegal possession of drugs and weapons.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The Libyan government said yesterday it was in talks with opposition figures but there seemed little chance of a swift end to the conflict as both sides stuck to entrenched positions on the fate of Muammar Gaddafi.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The nation’s largest teachers union voted yesterday to recommend that President Barack Obama be elected for another term.
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