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| Ten killed in gunfight in violent Mexican state | | | Ten people died and 20 were wounded in Mexico on Wednesday during a gunfight in the troubled southwestern state of Guerrero, where 43 students disappeared and were presumed murdered last year. A spokesman for the Guerrero state prosecutor's office said that the shootout between armed civilians occurred in Tlacotepec, a mountainous area where drug traffickers grow poppies used to make heroin. On Tuesday, in a different part of Guerrero, state prosecutors said they would be launching an investigation into the disappearance of 15 people last week. |
| U.S. Navy paying 'whole lot of attention' to cyber threats - Mabus | | | By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is working hard to improve the cyber security of its computer networks and weapon and communications systems, while bracing for potential attacks on power grids and fuel supplies, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Wednesday. Mabus said cyber warfare was a clear threat given Russia's use of cyber attacks before its physical invasions of Crimea and Georgia. "We've got to pay a whole lot of attention to this," Mabus said at an event sponsored by Defense One media group. |
| Man who flew gyrocopter to U.S. Capitol faces up to 9-1/2 years in prison | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Florida man who flew a gyrocopter onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in April faces up to 9-1/2 years in prison after being indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday. Douglas Hughes, 61, of Ruskin, Florida, was indicted on six charges, including violation of the registration requirements involving an aircraft and violation of national defence airspace, the U.S. Justice Department said. (Reporting by Julia Edwards; Editing by Emily Stephenson) |
| NATO could help EU migrant mission given political will - commander | |  NATO could help the European Union's efforts to counter migrant-smuggling across the Mediterranean if national leaders took a political decision to have it do so, its deputy military commander said on Wednesday. The European Union agreed on a naval mission on Monday to target gangs smuggling migrants from Libya. Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni had suggested on Monday that NATO could contribute to the EU operation by modifying its existing counter-terrorism naval mission in the Mediterranean, called Operation Active Endeavour.
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| Drug plane from Venezuela crashes off the coast of Colombia | | | A plane en route from Venezuela and loaded with cocaine crashed into the Caribbean Sea while being pursued by the Colombian air force, officials said on Wednesday. The unidentified body of a man, found with a Mexican passport, was among the wreckage of the plane, which crashed into the sea off Colombia's northern coast, the air force said in a statement. "The airplane, a Hawker 600, which left Venezuela and was destined for Central America, was detected in the early hours of today when it illegally entered Colombian air space," the statement said. |
| Global banks admit guilt in forex probe, fined nearly $6 billion | |  By Karen Freifeld, David Henry and Steve Slater NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Four major banks pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trying to manipulate foreign exchange rates and, with two others, were fined nearly $6 billion in another settlement in a global probe into the $5 trillion-a-day market. Citigroup Inc , JPMorgan Chase & Co , Barclays Plc , UBS AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Plc were accused by U.S. and UK officials of brazenly cheating clients to boost their own profits using invitation-only chat rooms and coded language to coordinate their trades. "The penalty all these banks will now pay is fitting, considering the long-running and egregious nature of their anticompetitive conduct," said U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch at a news conference in Washington.
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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. |
| 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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