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  WAR COURT

  Guantánamo captive accused in USS Cole bombing suffers from PTSD, depression

  The man accused of orchestrating the bombing of a U.S. Navy warship that killed 17 suffers from PTSD and depression but is fit to stand trial, according to a military mental health assessment of the captive who’d been waterboarded.

• Syria’s Assad pledges to attend proposed peace talks, says his side is winning war

  Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed in an interview broadcast Thursday that his government is winning the country’s civil war and pledged that he would personally attend proposed peace talks in Geneva tentatively set for later this summer.

• Drone strike kills Pakistani linked to ’09 blast at CIA Afghan base

  Missiles from a CIA drone killed a Pakistani Taliban leader Wednesday who was carrying a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, Pakistani security officials said, an indication that the Obama administration and the Pakistani military still are cooperating on the top-secret U.S. targeted killing program.
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  Shooting in Orlando

  Murder suspect’s death and accusations against him shock Kissimmee neighbors

  Ibragim Todashev was killed by an FBI agent Tuesday. They say he turned violent after confessing to a triple murder in the Boston area and implicating one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

• Turks and Caicos making strides in getting back stolen land

  Four years after a British firm embarked on efforts to help the Turks and Caicos recover illegally sold government land, millions are being recouped for the public treasury.
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  IMMIGRATION REFORM

  Immigration activists protest Sen. Marco Rubio after gay couples left out of reform bill

  Gay activists protested Sen. Marco Rubio after same-sex couples were left out immigration reform bill.
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  Cuba

  Cuba’s Ladies in White leader meets Pope Francis

  Pope Francis exchanged a brief greeting Wednesday with Cuban dissident Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White, in the Vatican at the end of a general audience held in St. Peter’s Square.
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  World Trade

  Brazilian will be the first Latin American to head the WTO

  Roberto Azevêdo, a career diplomat, will take the reins at a time when the world trading system is at a crossroads.

• IMMIGRATION

  Feds: Number of previously deported immigrants returning to U.S. is increasing

  A growing number of people who had been deported are sneaking back into the U.S.

• The Oppenheimer Report

  Andres Oppenheimer: U.S., Europe take new step to crack down on ‘tax havens’

  While many of us were focused on the Boston bombings, Venezuela’s dubious elections and North Korea’s war noises in recent weeks, the world’s biggest nations took a potentially historic step — they launched a system to detect secret offshore bank accounts.
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  Paraguay

  Paraguayans vote Sunday after a mud-slinging presidential campaign

  The front-runners in Paraguay’s presidential race are Horacio Cartes of the Colorado Party and Efraín Alegre of the ruling Liberal Party.

• Business

  Florida full of potential, African leader says

  The prime minister of Namibia, a tiny country in Southern Africa, visited South Florida last week and hopes to build partnerships soon.
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  IMMIGRATION

  Young activists demand U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio include LGBT people in immigration reform

  Young activists are demanding that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., include gay people in immigration reform.

• Obama’s drone war kills ‘others,’ not just al Qaida leaders

  Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified “other” militants in scores of strikes in Pakistan’s rugged tribal area, classified U.S. intelligence reports show.

• U.S. secret: CIA collaborated with Pakistan spy agency in drone war

  Even as its civilian leaders publicly decried U.S. drone attacks as breaches of sovereignty and international law, Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency secretly worked for years with the CIA on strikes that killed Pakistani insurgent leaders and scores of suspected lower-level fighters, according to classified U.S. intelligence reports.
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  Pope Francis

  Argentina’s Jewish community celebrate Pope Francis

  In Argentina — home to the largest Latin American Jewish population — Pope Francis is seen as a friend and advocate.
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  The journey of Pope Francis

  Argentina embraces Francis, its pauper Pope

  In his native Argentina, Francis’ austere ways and commitment to the poor have won praise despite questions about his past.

• By exiting papacy still alive, Pope Benedict follows a precedent not seen for 598 years

  Before April 19, 2005, Cardinal Josef Ratzinger talked warmly of retiring. He was looking forward to a leisurely life, with his books, his brother and his beloved gray cat back in ancient Regensburg, Germany, where he owned a house.

• Egypt military chief urges end to violent protests, warns nation threatened

  CAIRO Declaring that ongoing street protests could lead to the “collapse of the state,” Egypt’s top military general warned Tuesday that if opponents of President Mohammed Morsi continue to paralyze the country through demonstrations, the military might have to intervene to defend the government.

• Miami-Dade Marine freed from Mexico jail says inmates threatened to behead him

  Only days after U.S. Marine veteran Jon Hammar was thrown into a Mexican prison for carrying an antique shotgun into the country, gangsters in the jail warned him of his likely fate – beheading.

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