GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Argentine singer Facundo Cabral, one of the stars of Latin American folk music, was shot dead in Guatemala City early yesterday when gunmen riddled his car with bullets, authorities said.
JUBA, (Reuters) – Thousands of South Sudanese danced in the streets today (last night local time) to mark their long-awaited independence, a hard-won separation from the north that also plunged the fractured region into a new period of uncertainty.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Police arrested David Cameron’s former spokesman yesterday over the scandal that has shut down Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, forcing the prime minister to defend his judgment while promising new controls on the British press.
KINSHASA, (Reuters) – An airliner ploughed into dense forest as it tried to land during a rainstorm in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday, killing 127 people on board, the Congolese transport ministry said.
KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Ugandan shopkeepers, who shuttered shops for two days this week to protest over the cost of doing business, have complained about an influx of Chinese, prompting the government to promise a headcount of immigrants.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Betty Ford, the wife of the late President Gerald Ford, who overcame alcohol and prescription drug addictions and helped found a rehabilitation clinic that bears her name, died yesterday at the age of 93.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, (Reuters) – A man suspected of killing seven people, including two children, in western Michigan on Thursday ended a hostage standoff with police by killing himself, authorities said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch will shut down Britain’s biggest selling Sunday newspaper, the News of the World, in a startling response to a scandal engulfing his media empire.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A retired Pakistani general strongly denied yesterday a report that he took $3 million in cash in exchange for helping smuggle nuclear technology to North Korea in the late 1990s, while the nation’s foreign office called the story “preposterous.”
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Both Honduras’ leftist President and the coup leaders who ousted him in 2009 broke the law, a truth commission report found yesterday, in a bid to heal a political rift in the country caused by the affair.
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.
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