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| Warner case adjourned with no extradition writ from U.S yet | |  By Linda Hutchinson-Jafar PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - The United States has yet to issue a formal writ of extradition for former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, whose case was adjourned on Thursday until July 27, lawyers in the case said on Thursday. Warner, wanted in the U.S. on corruption charges, could apply for discharge from the local court if the United States does not send the writ to the Trinidad and Tobago government by July 26. Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar, presiding at the Port of Spain Magistrate's court, adjourned the case for 18 days after hearing submissions from lawyers appearing for the State and Warner.
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| Bolivia's Morales doubtful of full diplomatic ties with U.S. soon | |  By Sarah Marsh and Diego Oré SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Thursday he wanted to restore full diplomatic relations with the United States but doubted this would happen soon, even after the recent rapprochement between Washington and former Cold War enemy Cuba. Morales, a prominent member of South America's leftist bloc and one of the region's most popular leaders, told Reuters in an interview he had sought a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama but had not received a response. Relations between the two countries disintegrated in 2008 when the Bolivian leader expelled Washington's ambassador, accusing the United States of conspiring to overthrow his government, and kicked out the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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| Excerpts from Pope Francis speech attacking global economic order | |  Pope Francis made a sweeping speech on Thursday during his Latin American tour criticizing the global economic order and asking for forgiveness from indigenous peoples for crimes committed by the Church in the past. There was sin and an abundant amount of it." ON "NEW COLONIALISM" "The new colonialism takes on different faces.
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| New analysis of smoking and schizophrenia suggests causal link | |  By Kate Kelland LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - In research that turns on its head previous thinking about links between schizophrenia and smoking, scientists say they have found that cigarettes may be a causal factor in the development of psychosis. After analysing almost 15,000 tobacco users and 273,000 non users and their relative rates of psychosis - where patients can experience delusions, paranoia and hear voices in their heads - the researchers said cigarette smoking appears to increase risk. "While it's always hard to determine the direction of causality, our findings indicate that smoking should be taken seriously as a possible risk factor for developing psychosis," James MacCabe, a psychosis expert who co-led the research at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, told reporters.
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| Cameroon says repulses Boko Haram attack, kills three militants | | | Cameroon's army has repulsed an attack by Boko Haram and killed three of the Nigerian Islamist militants in heavy fighting in the Far North region of the country, a Cameroon government spokesman said on Thursday. The attack represented a change of tactics by the militants following a series of battlefield defeats this year in which they have lost territory to a regional force that comprises Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, spokesman Issa Tchiroma said. Boko Haram rarely comments directly on military action and there was no independent confirmation of the battle. |
| Burundi general seeks to oust president he accuses of dividing nation | |  By Edmund Blair and Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Burundi general who was part of a failed coup attempt in May said his group was still working to oust President Pierre Nkurunziza, accusing him of stoking ethnic divisions in a country still trying to recover from civil war. "At that time (in May), we just failed to remove Nkurunziza from power," General Leonard Ngendakumana told Reuters in an interview on Thursday outside Burundi. "The aim is still there." The president, whom Ngendakumana served as a senior intelligence officer in government and during the civil war as a rebel fighter, has plunged Burundi into its deepest political crisis for a decade by seeking a third five-year term.
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