MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s party is expected to retain its slim working majority in the lower house of Congress in mid-term elections yesterday despite discontent about corruption, gang violence and lackluster economic growth.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China could be wasting enough hydroelectricity to power Britain and Germany for a year, depriving its smog-bound eastern regions of huge volumes of clean energy as a result of poor planning and weak grid infrastructure.
(Reuters) The European Union’s chief executive declined to speak to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras yesterday after the leftist leader rejected as “absurd” international creditors’ terms for a cash-for-reform deal to keep his country from default.
ROME (Reuters) More than 2,000 migrants were rescued from five wooden boats in the Mediterranean yesterday and as many as seven other vessels have been reported at sea, the privately funded Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) and Italy’s coastguard said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A manhunt was underway for two convicted murderers who pulled off an elaborate overnight escape from adjoining cells in a New York state maximum security prison near the border with Canada, police said yesterday.
LONDON (Reuters) – More than 50 lawmakers from David Cameron’s Conservative Party are to join a campaign backing Britain’s exit from the European Union unless the British prime minister achieves radical changes in the bloc, according to today’s Telegraph newspaper.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government has moved about 40,000 federal police, soldiers and marines into several restive southern states to try to safeguard today’s midterm elections, a source close to the operation said yesterday.
(Reuters Health) – In the loudest parts of the US, reducing hazardous noise levels – a risk factor for high blood pressure and heart disease – could save more than $3 billion annually, according to a new economic assessment.
DUBAI/SANAA, (Reuters) – Yemen’s dominant Houthi group and its army allies fired a Scud missile at Saudi Arabia which the kingdom says it shot down today, in a major escalation of two months of war.
BUCHAREST, (Reuters) – Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta rejected calls for his resignation yesterday after prosecutors named him in a criminal investigation into forgery, money-laundering, conflict of interest and tax evasion.
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Nestle SA, battling a reputational crisis in India, pulled its Maggi instant noodles from stores across the country yesterday after regulators reported some packets contained excess lead.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Data stolen from U.S. government computers by suspected Chinese hackers included security clearance information and background checks dating back three decades, U.S.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A Pakistani court has freed eight out of 10 men charged with organising the shooting of schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, police said on Friday, a move that will raise further questions about the nation’s heavily criticised justice system.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rampant gang violence and drug turf wars in parts of Central America are fuelling child marriage as girls seek to marry or couple with gang members and older men as a form of protection, researchers say.
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Nestle SA, battling a reputational crisis in India, pulled its Maggi instant noodles from stores across the country today after regulators reported some packets contained excess lead.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hackers broke into U.S. government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based in China, U.S.
AUSTIN, Texas, (Reuters) – A man whose cancer left him with severe damage to the top of the head has received what his doctors in Houston describe as the first skull and scalp transplant, the MD Anderson Cancer Center said yesterday.