HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Wednesday he and three U.S. Congress members had a “magnificent meeting”, but he reiterated doubts about the possibility of big changes in U.S.-Cuba relations.
 
In a column published in Cuba’s state-run press, he wrote that he and the lawmakers had a cordial chat on Tuesday in [...]

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By Jim Bronskill, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen who had been detained in Sudan, is seen in this family photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Graham Hughes.
 
OTTAWA - The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service wants a probe of the spy agency’s role in the case of a Montreal man stranded in Sudan.
Jim Judd [...]

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Quebec Finance Minister Monique Jerome-Forget announced on Wednesday that she was resigning and would leave politics, less than a month after bringing down the Canadian province’s first major deficit budget in more than a decade.
 
Jerome-Forget — who had been in the job for two years — came under heavy pressure earlier this [...]

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By Daniel Wallis
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The captain of a U.S.-flagged, Danish-owned container ship hijacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean is being held hostage on the ship’s lifeboat, a crew member on the vessel told CNN on Wednesday.
Pentagon officials said the crew appeared to have retaken control of the vessel, the 17,000-tonne Maersk Alabama, after [...]

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Muite asks ICC to investigate government officials
By David Ochami
Former Kabete MP Paul Kibugi Muite wants the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute senior government officials for extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances.
Top on Muite’s dispatch request is President Kibaki, who the lawyer says bears “criminal responsibility” for the State killings which he [...]

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SIRTE, Libya,
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday called Barack Obama a “flicker of hope in the middle of the imperialist darkness”, but said he feared the president could be assassinated.
Gaddafi, known for his controversial statements, did not say who might want to kill Obama but gave the examples of the assassinations of Presidents John F. [...]

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BY ANNE KIGUTA
The UN Special Rapporteur on extra judicial killings says Kenya’s law enforcement agencies have engaged in systematic intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders since he released his report on illegal killings.
In a statement issued in New York, Prof Phillip Alston said dozens of prominent human rights defenders and their families have been [...]

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BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
DUBAI, Somali pirates seized a Danish-owned and US-flagged ship off Somalia on Wednesday with 20 American crew on board, the US Navy and the shipowner said.
“A US-flagged Danish-owned ship was attacked at around 7:30 local time this morning, 240 nautical miles southeast of the Somali town of Eyl,” Lieutenant Nathan Schaeffer, a [...]

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