BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – The trial of seven health care professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer great Diego Maradona resumed on Tuesday, nearly a year after the original proceedings collapsed when a presiding judge stepped down after appearing in a documentary about the case.
NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices dropped back to where they were in the early days of the Iran war. The S&P 500 leaped 1.2% Friday. The Dow Jones leaped 870 points, or 1.8%, while the Nasdaq composite climbed 1.5%. Oil prices fell 9%.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Colombian officials on Monday authorized a plan to cull dozens of hippos roaming freely through a region in the center of the country, where they threaten villagers and displace native species years after notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar brought in the first ones.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Australia’s most decorated living veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, walked free on bail from a Sydney prison on Friday, 10 days after he was charged with war crimes in the killings of five people while serving in Afghanistan.
LIMA, Peru (AP) – Thousands of Peruvians were back at the polls on Monday for a second day of voting after failure to deliver ballots to voting centers extended Sunday’s election by a day.
NEW DELHI (AP) – A bill to reserve a third of seats for women lawmakers failed to pass in the lower house of India’s Parliament on Friday, along with a separate, linked proposal to expand the national legislature by redrawing voting boundaries.
SAO PAULO (AP) – A Brazilian senator said on Monday that the country’s former intelligence agency chief Alexandre Ramagem was arrested by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and is pleading for him to get political asylum in the United States.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
LIMA, Peru (AP) – A former minister, a comedian and a political dynasty heiress are among the 35 candidates hoping to become Peru’s ninth president in just 10 years.
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