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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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| Islamic State fighters take over Syrian city of Palmyra - monitor | |  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters took control of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra on Wednesday after fighting off pro-government forces, a group monitoring the war said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the group had seized almost all of the city. It said it was unclear what had happened to Syrian forces stationed at a military outpost on its outskirts. (Reporting by Sylvia Westall; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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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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| Crop-loss farmers sell their children to survive - authorities | | | By Shuriah Niazi MOHANPURA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lal Singh was desperate. The farmer from Mohanpura village in Madhya Pradesh had seen unseasonably heavy rains and hailstorms destroy crop after crop, while he fell deeper into debt. |
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