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| U.S. embassy in Cuba likely to operate in restrictive environment | | | By Patricia Zengerle and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S. embassy in Havana is likely to operate with controls on staff travel and other restrictions similar to those on American diplomats in other countries with authoritarian governments, Washington's chief Cuba negotiator said on Wednesday. Thursday's talks in Washington will explore terms for reopening embassies in Havana and Washington as part of a deal to re-establish diplomatic ties announced in December by U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro. |
| About 1,000 weapons found at scene of deadly Texas gang fight | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - About 1,000 weapons including firearms and knives have been recovered from the scene of a deadly Sunday battle between rival motorcycle gangs in the Texas city of Waco that left nine people dead, a police spokesman told CNN on Wednesday. Gang members hid weapons in bags of potato chips and in bathrooms at the Twin Peaks restaurant, where they attacked each other with guns, knives, brass knuckles, clubs and chains, Waco Police Sergeant Patrick Swanton said. "These were vicious gang members that were in our city Sunday," he told the cable news network, adding an AK-47 rifle was among the weapons recovered.
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| Canada arrests 10 suspected of heading to join militants in Mideast | | | By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canadian police arrested 10 young people from Montreal suspected of wanting to leave the country to join militant groups in the Middle East, officials said on Wednesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the 10 were detained last weekend at Montreal's international airport. "We have reason to believe that the young Montrealers wanted to travel abroad to join jihadist groups," RCMP spokesman Constable Erique Gasse said. |
| Islamic State seizes ancient city from Syrian forces | |  By Sylvia Westall and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants stormed the Syrian city of Palmyra on Wednesday, seizing it from government forces in fierce fighting as civilians were evacuated and Syria's antiquities chief called on the world to save its ancient monuments. The capture of Palmyra is the first time the al Qaeda offshoot has taken control of a city directly from the Syrian army and allied forces, which have already lost ground in the northwest and south to other insurgent groups in recent weeks. It is home to modern military installations, and sits on a desert highway linking the capital Damascus with Syria's eastern provinces, mostly under rebel control.
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| Venezuelan officials accused by U.S. sue opposition leader | |  By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan officials targeted by United States sanctions are suing opposition leader Henrique Capriles for labelling them corrupt in the latest knock-on effect of Washington's moves against the OPEC member's rulers, a minister said. Turning up the pressure on Venezuela, President Barack Obama's government imposed a visa ban and asset freeze on seven officials in March over allegations of repressing political opponents and corruption. President Nicolas Maduro has furiously denied the accusations and turned the seven into a nationalist 'cause celebrate', even naming one - former intelligence service head Gustavo Gonzalez - as interior minister.
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| Italy arrests Moroccan over Tunisian museum killings | |  Italian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a 22-year-old Moroccan man suspected of involvement in the March 18 attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis which killed 20 tourists. Police in Milan said the man, named as Touil Abdelmajid, had been sought by authorities in several countries. Tunisia has said it has arrested the great majority of those responsible for the attack which was launched by a cell of 23 militants with overlapping allegiances to a number of hardline Islamist groups.
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| Irish abroad mobilise to return home for gay marriage vote | |  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of kilometres from home, Dubliner Mark Govern watched on in Sydney as Ireland's referendum on gay marriage dominated discussion. "I felt that if this didn't pass and I could have come home and contributed in some way, I'd spend the next 30 years regretting it." Govern, 31, is one of hundreds or perhaps even thousands of Irish people returning home to vote, according to Joey Kavanagh of Get The Boat 2 Vote, one of a number of groups encouraging Irish men and women abroad to come back and cast their ballot. More than 180,000 Irish nationals, equivalent to 8 percent of the 2.2 million who voted at the last election, left the country in the four years to the end of April 2014 as Ireland's economic crisis sparked a wave of emigration.
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| Mother seeks a groom for her son in India's first gay marriage advert | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 57-year-old mother has placed India's first gay matrimonial advertisement, seeking a groom for her son, but it was not an easy task in a country where homosexuality is illegal, said her son on Wednesday. Mumbai resident Padma Iyer hit the headlines when her advertisement appeared in a daily newspaper on Tuesday - mimicking the style of traditional matrimonials placed by parents which fill the pages of India's newspapers. "Seeking 25-40, well-placed, animal-loving, vegetarian GROOM for my SON (36, 5'11") who works with an NGO," said the advertisement in the Mumbai tabloid Mid-Day.
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| New video surfaces showing Freddie Gray arrest in Baltimore | |  A new video has surfaced revealing a key part of the arrest of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore black man whose death from injuries he sustained while in police custody led to days of protests and a federal investigation. The video, shot by a bystander and posted on The Baltimore Sun's website on Wednesday, shows officers putting Gray in leg shackles and handcuffs before placing him back in a police van head first and on his stomach. Gray died on April 19 from spinal injuries suffered during his arrest a week earlier on April 12.
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| Major banks admit guilt in forex probe, fined $6 bln | |  By Karen Freifeld, Steve Slater and Katharina Bart NEW YORK/LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Four major banks agreed to plead guilty on Wednesday to trying to manipulate foreign exchange rates and six were fined nearly $6 billion in yet another settlement in a global probe into the $5-trillion-a-day market. Authorities in the United States and Britain accused traders at Citigroup, JP Morgan, Barclays, UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland of brazenly cheating their clients to boost their own profits using invitation-only chatrooms and coded language to coordinate their trades. The misconduct occurred up until 2013, after regulators had started punishing banks for rigging the London interbank offered rate (Libor), an interest rate benchmark, and banks had pledged to overhaul their corporate culture and bolster compliance.
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