World

LIMA, (Reuters) – About 190 nations faced a crossroads Friday on how boldly to fight global warming as United Nations talks in Lima went into overtime amid concerns that watered-down goals could undermine a U.N.

RALEIGH, N.C.,  (Reuters) – The hanging death of a black teenager in a small North Carolina town will be probed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the agency said on Friday, after his family questioned a finding by local authorities that it was suicide and his mother pleaded to know, “Was my son lynched?”

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters – Cuba will attend the Washington-backed Summit of the Americas for the first time, host nation Panama said on Friday, edging two adversaries closer to a possible joint appearance by presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s finance minister bought a home from a government contractor who is at the centre of a conflict-of-interest scandal embroiling President Enrique Pena Nieto and his administration, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Crude oil markets fell 3 percent or more to plumb new five-year lows oiday after the world’s energy watchdog forecast even lower prices on weaker demand and larger supplies next year.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned a series of anti-Muslim demonstrations centred on the eastern city of Dresden, saying via an aide yesterday that there was “no place in Germany” for hatred of Muslims or any other religious or racial group.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis has denied a private audience to the Dalai Lama because it could harm the Holy See’s already fraught relations with China, the Vatican said yesterday.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – The former Korean Air Lines executive who delayed a flight because she was unhappy with the way she was served macadamia nuts apologised yesterday over the incident, which fuelled outrage and ridicule in South Korea.

CURITIBA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors yesterday formally charged executives of six of the country’s largest engineering firms with forming a cartel to funnel kickbacks from state-run oil company Petrobras to the ruling political party and its allies.

WASHINGTON/OAKLAND, Calif., (Reuters) – Dozens of congressional staff staged a walkout yesterday to protest decisions by grand juries not to charge white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City.

LANGLEY, Va., (Reuters) – CIA Director John Brennan said yesterday some agency officers used “abhorrent” methods on detainees captured following the Sept.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The death toll following a mass drug overdose incident in a Venezuelan jail last month has jumped to 48 from 13, the government said yesterday.

PORT LOUIS, (Reuters) – Mauritius voters rejected plans to grant more powers to the president by handing an election victory to a coalition that opposed changing the constitution, electoral officials said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hailed as a major success in the U.S.

A crew member and two contractors died on Thursday when a fire broke out aboard a luxury cruise ship docked at the eastern Caribbean island of St.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong cleared most of the main pro-democracy protest site today as police hauled activists away, marking an end to more than two months of street demonstrations that have blocked key roads in the Chinese-controlled city.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Packing potatoes at his vegetable stand on a sun-baked street in Caracas’s hillside Catia slum, Jesus Jimenez fondly recounts voting for late president Hugo Chavez.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Oil prices tumbled as much as 5 percent yesterday, pushing U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA’s harsh Bush-era interrogation methods said on Wednesday that a scathing U.S.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A “truth commission” investigating abuses during Brazil’s 1964-85 dictatorship called for the prosecution of former military officers and some private companies for their role in human rights atrocities, in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.