VERACRUZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Three Central American nations that have sent a flood of migrants to the United States are ready to provide $5 billion between them to match a sum Washington says may be needed to help solve the problem, Guatemala’s president said on Tuesday.
“My worship is first time I do something like this, please give me a chance,” were the words of Wazim Khan on Monday before Magistrate Ann McLennan sentenced him for stealing almost $2 million in valuables during a break and enter and larceny.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The CIA misled the White House and public about its torture of detainees after the Sept.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Congressional negotiators resolved policy disputes to reach a deal for a $1.1 trillion spending bill yesterday but still expected to need a stop-gap extension to avoid a U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela has uncovered at least $3 million in cash hidden under the false bottom of a Ford truck that arrived on a Lebanese-flagged ship from Miami.
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thousands of Ebola survivors with little to no risk of re-infection are critical to controlling the epidemic and training them has the potential to save thousands of lives and decrease the spread of the virus, experts said on Wednesday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot yesterday called for the replacement of state-controlled oil company Petrobras’ top management and punishment of everyone involved in a scheme to funnel kickbacks from contracts to politicians.
(Kenneth Roth is executive director of Human Rights Watch. The opinions expressed here are those of the author.)
LONDON, (Reuters) – A French-American start-up launched an automatic password changer in an attempt to remove the all-too-human frailty that has rendered the phrase “computer security” a worrying oxymoron, leading a rival U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The CIA routinely misled the White House and Congress over its harsh interrogation program for terrorism suspects and its methods, which included waterboarding, were more brutal than the agency acknowledged, a Senate report said on Tuesday.
GENEVA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Divisions among the veto-wielding powers of the UN Security Council are harming the world’s children and sowing the seeds of future conflicts, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – A South African court cleared British businessman Shrien Dewani yesterday of charges that he paid hitmen to kill his wife while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Graphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency’s anti-terror tactics, sources familiar with the document said.
LIMA (Reuters) – Projected global warming this century has slowed but is still at a severe rate after promises by China, the United States and the European Union to limit greenhouse gas emissions, a scientific study showed yesterday.
MARYLAND (Reuters) – An executive jet crashed into a Maryland house yesterday, killing all three people aboard the plane and a mother and two children inside the house, a fire official said.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – A South African court cleared British businessman Shrien Dewani today of charges that he paid hitmen to kill his wife while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities yesterday said that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers who were abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members.
SEOUL/BOSTON, (Reuters) – The Pyongyang government’s state-run media said the cyber attack on Sony’s Hollywood studio may have been the work of pro-North Korean supporters in a report yesterday that dismissed charges that the country itself was to blame as “wild rumor.”
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Six men held for more than a decade at the U.S.
WASHINGTON/KUWAIT CITY, (Reuters) – Despite three failed raids to free U.S.
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