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Drug war shutters businesses on Mexico border

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - A decade ago, economists hailed Tijuana as a place where cheap Mexican labor and U.S. financing could meet, attracting Asian firms eager to set up manufacturing plants to export to the United States.

Rwanda genocide survivor burnt to death by gang

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
KIGALI (Reuters) - A 90-year-old Rwandan genocide survivor has been stabbed and burnt to death by a gang that included four assailants who had confessed to taking part in the 1994 slaughter, a body representing genocide survivors said on Thursday.

Thousands flee north-south Sudan clashes in Abyei

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
ABYEI, Sudan (Reuters) - Thousands of civilians fled clashes between Sudan's former north-south civil war foes in the oil-rich central town of Abyei on Thursday, local officials said.

Russia, China, India seek Afghan anti-drug "belt"

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - China, India and Russia called on Thursday for the creation of a security belt around Afghanistan to halt the spread of heroin.

Seven die in clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Clashes between Shi'ite militiamen and security forces in Baghdad's Sadr City slum killed seven people and wounded 19 overnight, Iraqi police and hospitals said on Thursday.

Zuma lawyers discuss trial date on Thursday

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lawyers for Jacob Zuma, the leader of South Africa's ruling party, will meet prosecutors on Thursday to decide whether his corruption case should begin on August 4, the National Prosecuting Authority said.

Zimbabwe's MDC rejects runoff delay, rally banned

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Thursday rejected a delay in a run-off election which could unseat President Robert Mugabe, and called for an urgent meeting of countries in the region to avoid "rivers of dead people".

Suicide blast kills 18 Afghan police, civilians

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide blast killed 18 police and civilians on Thursday in Afghanistan's western province of Farah, officials said.

Lebanese to hold crisis talks in Qatar

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rival Lebanese leaders are scheduled to talks in Qatar on Friday aiming to end a protracted political conflict that pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war.

U.N. opens inquiry into peacekeeper sex abuse charges

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The United Nations is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo committed sexual abuses, which aid workers said involved paying children for sex.

Anger after apparent U.S. missile strike in Pakistan

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
DAMADOLA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Angry residents of a Pakistani village on the Afghan border stopped government officials on Thursday from approaching the ruins of a house struck by missiles suspected to have been fired by a U.S. drone.

Indian police probe bombing leads

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Indian police probed on Thursday whether Indian Islamist groups or Bangladeshi infiltrators were behind bombings in a popular Indian tourist city that killed 61 people this week, but made no major arrests.

Myanmar junta insists aid effort running smoothly

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government said on Thursday its cyclone relief effort was moving along swiftly even as foreign powers warned of starvation and disease among up to 2.5 million people left destitute by the storm.

Afghan police training: "Don't shoot", then eat

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
GHULAM ALI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Sergeant Chris Padron, a thick-set former cop from Texas turned police trainer in Afghanistan, fixed the group of earnest Afghan policemen with a hard stare and delivered his next question.

China says quake toll could rise above 50,000

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
YINGXIU, China (Reuters) - The death toll from China's earthquake could soar to more than 50,000, state media reported on Thursday, as rescuers struggled to help survivors and hope faded for thousands buried under rubble.

Drug hitmen attack police in Mexico hot spot

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
CULIACAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen threw grenades and opened fire on a police station in Mexico's Sinaloa state on Wednesday, just hours after the government sent thousands of troops to fight a powerful drug cartel there.

U.N. opens inquiry into peacekeeper sex abuse charges

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The United Nations is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo committed sexual abuses, which aid workers said involved paying children for sex.

Chile town closed for three months after volcano

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The government on Wednesday declared the evacuated Chilean town of Chaiten off-limits for three months until it is no longer threatened by a cloud of hot ash from an erupting volcano.

Suspected U.S. missile kills 7 in Pakistan: Taliban

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least one missile suspected to have been fired by a U.S. drone hit a house in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border on Wednesday, a Pakistani security official said.

German goes on trial for abusing 8 of own children

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:58
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 54-year-old German went on trial on Wednesday charged with sexually abusing eight of his own children, a court in the city of Trier said.