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| Bolivia's Morales doubtful of full diplomatic ties with U.S. soon | | Friday, July 10, 2015 3:26 AM | |
|  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 | | Friday, July 10, 2015 3:04 AM | |
|  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 | | Friday, July 10, 2015 1:29 AM | |
|  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 | | Friday, July 10, 2015 1:11 AM | |
| | 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 | | Friday, July 10, 2015 12:11 AM | |
|  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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| Pope calls for new economic order, criticises capitalism | |  By Philip Pullella and Sarah Marsh SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday urged the downtrodden to change the world economic order, denouncing a "new colonialism" by agencies that impose austerity programs and calling for the poor to have the "sacred rights" of labor, lodging and land. In one of the longest, most passionate and sweeping speeches of his pontificate, the Argentine-born pope also asked forgiveness for the sins committed by the Roman Catholic Church in its treatment of native Americans during what he called the "so-called conquest of America." Quoting a fourth century bishop, he called the unfettered pursuit of money "the dung of the devil," and said poor countries should not be reduced to being providers of raw material and cheap labour for developed countries.
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| Malaysia moves on MH17 tribunal plan at U.N., Russia dismisses | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Malaysia has asked the United Nations Security Council to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing a passenger airliner last year in eastern Ukraine, but Russia dismissed the move on Thursday. Malaysia, a member of the 15-member council, distributed a draft resolution late on Wednesday, which it hoped could be adopted later this month, diplomats said. It is a joint proposal by Malaysia, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and Ukraine.
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| Millions more of Americans hit by government personnel data hack | |  By Patricia Zengerle and Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Data breaches at the U.S. government's personnel management agency by hackers, with suspicions centering on China, involves millions more people than previously estimated, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said data stolen from its computer networks included Social Security numbers and other sensitive information on 21.5 million people who have undergone background checks for security clearances.
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| U.N. council mulls creating team to assign Syria gas attacks blame | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is considering asking U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the global chemical weapons watchdog to assemble a team of investigators to identify who is responsible for toxic gas attacks in Syria. The United States on Thursday circulated a draft resolution on the measure to the 15-member council, diplomats said, after more than two months of bilateral talks with Russia on how to attribute blame for chemical weapons attacks.
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| U.S. spy agency tapped German chancellery for decades - WikiLeaks | |  The U.S. National Security Agency tapped phone calls involving German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her closest advisers for years and spied on the staff of her predecessors, according to WikiLeaks. A report released by the group suggested NSA spying on Merkel and her staff had gone on far longer and more widely than previously realised. WikiLeaks said the NSA targeted for long-term surveillance 125 phone numbers of top German officials.
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| Bolivian 'communist crucifix' gift to pope surprises Vatican | |  By Philip Pullella SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - The Vatican acknowledged it was taken by surprise to discover that a wooden hammer and sickle sculpture with a figure of a crucified Christ gifted to the Pope in Bolivia was not commissioned by leftist president Evo Morales but designed by a priest killed in 1980. The blending of the symbol of communism, under which many Christians were persecuted in the former Soviet bloc and still are in some communist countries, provoked outrage among Catholic officials. Pope Francis looked bemused when Morales, at a meeting on Wednesday night, handed him the unusual gift, a replica of the priest's sculpture.
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| Rights groups urge U.S. to reconsider Malaysia human-trafficking rating | |  By Jason Szep WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human rights groups and some U.S. lawmakers urged the U.S. government on Thursday to reconsider plans to upgrade Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking hubs, citing a lack of evidence that Malaysia had made advances against trafficking. The comments come a day after Reuters revealed that the U.S. State Department plans to reverse last year's downgrade of Malaysia in its annual "Trafficking in Persons" (TIP) report, a move that could smooth the way for a major U.S.-led free-trade deal with the Southeast Asian nation and 11 other countries.
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