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Haiti’s transitional government adopts key law to hold a general election for first time since 2016

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Haiti's transitional presidential council has backed an electoral law in the latest step toward holding a general election for the first time in nearly a decade. The approval late Monday means that the government can finally publish an official ...
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UK government plans to scrap some jury trials in an attempt to clear a court backlog

LONDON (AP) - The right to trial by jury will be pared back in Britain in an attempt to clear a backlog of cases clogging up the justice system, the government announced Tuesday. Justice Secretary David Lammy said overload and delays had created "an emergency ...
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Guinea-Bissau electoral commission unable to finalize results after armed men steal vote tally

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) - Guinea-Bissau's electoral commission said Tuesday that it's unable to finalize results of a disputed presidential vote after armed men broke into its office and stole vote tally sheets the same day the military seized power. The announcement did not identify ...
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Indonesia, Dutch sign deal to repatriate two convicts, one on death row

JAKARTA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Indonesia and the Netherlands on Tuesday signed a deal to repatriate two elderly Dutch prisoners convicted of drug offences, officials said, one of whom was on death row. The two prisoners were Siegfried Mets, 74, and Ali Tokman, 65, ...
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UK police must act urgently to prevent sex crimes against women, says report

LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Police in Britain must act urgently to prevent sexual offences against women and girls and have shown a "troubling lack of momentum and ambition", an inquiry into the case of a police officer jailed for murder four years ago ...
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Owner of oil tanker damaged near Senegal says it is ceasing all Russian operations

LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Besiktas Shipping, the Turkish owner of an oil tanker that was damaged near Senegal's coast last week after being hit by four external explosions, said on Tuesday that it was ceasing all shipping operations involving Russian interests. The vessel, Mersin, ...
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The Latest: US envoy Witkoff to meet Putin in Moscow as Zelenskyy begins Ireland visit

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff was due to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, taking to the Kremlin an embryonic peace plan that Washington hopes can bring about an end to the nearly four-year war in Ukraine. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
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Lithuania accuses Belarus of ‘cynical hybrid attack’ as balloons disrupt airport

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Tensions between Lithuania and Belarus have escalated after meteorological balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport in the past weeks, leaving thousands of people stranded. While the balloons are used to smuggle cigarettes into Lithuania, ...
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2 former South African apartheid police officers are convicted of killing an activist 38 years ago

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Two former apartheid-era police officers in South Africa were found guilty of murder Tuesday in the 1987 killing of activist and student leader Caiphus Nyoka. Nyoka's fatal shooting at his family home near Johannesburg during the period of white ...
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Israel to receive possible hostage remains from Gaza for forensic tests

JERUSALEM, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Israel said on Tuesday it was preparing to receive more possible hostage remains from Gaza via the Red Cross and would send them for forensic tests. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office did not specify whether they were remains of ...
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Death toll from Indonesia floods and landslides passes 700

JAKARTA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The number of people killed by floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island rose to 708 on Tuesday, the disaster agency said, as authorities rushed to repair infrastructure and deliver aid to cut-off areas. The agency in a ...
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Guinea-Bissau election commission says cannot conclude presidential election process

BISSAU, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's electoral commission said on Tuesday it is unable to finalize the November 23 presidential election after armed men seized ballots and vote tallies from its offices. Army officers in the West African state seized power on November 26, a ...
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