MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say they have arrested the former governor of the state of Aguascalientes on financial fraud charges. The Mexican Attorney General’s office said Thursday that an arrest warrant for Luis Armando Reynoso Femat was executed in Leon, a city in Guanajuato state. He was then taken …
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SKHIRAT, Morocco – Libyan political leaders have reached a new version of a U.N.-brokered peace deal, putting pressure on the Tripoli leadership to sign on and build a unity government in hopes of ending the country’s chaos. The Tripoli government refused to participate in the latest discussions Saturday in the …
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LONDON – British police have arrested three men on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism. Police said Tuesday that two men in their 20s and one man in his 30s were arrested at two separate residential addresses north of London in Letchworth and greater Luton. Police said armed officers took …
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ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – An active underwater volcano off Grenada’s northern coast called Kick ’em Jenny is rumbling and disaster management authorities have been put on alert. Since its discovery in 1939, Kick ’em Jenny has erupted at least 12 times, most recently in 2001. It hasn’t caused any deaths …
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PARIS – Over the past week, French farmers have used tractors to block the border with Germany and chucked foreign vegetables off trucks in protest of cheap imports. French leaders did not call in the police — they gave the farmers their support. France’s permissive attitude toward protest has cultural …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A court in Ethiopia has handed jail terms ranging from seven to 22 years against 18 Muslims who were convicted on terror charges, including allegedly attempting to establish a religious government. The sentencing on Monday attracted outcry from Muslim activists who opposed the trial. Four of …
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MANILA, Philippines – Officials say flash floods caused by heavy rain have killed at least seven people, including four children, in the southern Philippines. Two others remain missing. The regional Office of Civil Defense said the dead in southern Bukidnon province’s Valencia City included a 6-month-old girl and three other …
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BANGKOK – The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says it is appalled at the long prison sentences given to people convicted in Thailand of insulting the monarchy, and is calling for the immediate release of all people jailed for exercising freedom of expression. Its statement, released …
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BUCHAREST, Romania – Education authorities in Romania are investigating some 400 cases in which students are suspected of getting into high schools without having the necessary grades. Education Minister Sorin Campeanu said Thursday the investigation involves schools in four counties. He says that the pupils had already been placed in …
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DHAKA, Bangladesh – A court in Bangladesh’s capital has sentenced six officials of a now-dissolved drug company to 10 years in jail for producing toxic paracetamol syrup that reportedly killed hundreds of children who developed kidney diseases and other ailments after taking the medicine in the 1990s. Judge M. Atoar …
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