Captured American IS Fighter's Story Raising 'Red Flags' and other top stories.

• Captured American IS Fighter's Story Raising 'Red Flags'

  WASHINGTON— Intelligence officials are taking a close look at what an American Islamic State (IS) fighter is telling Kurdish media; parts of his account raise as many questions as answers. Mohamad Jamal Khweis, the 26-year-old from Alexandria, Virginia, spoke just days after he claims to have fled from the IS-held city of Mosul. Kurdish forces saw him wandering near the northern Iraqi city of Sinjar Monday and fired upon him before he surrendered. During the heavily edited version of the interv..

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• Republican lawmakers to join Obama's Cuba visit

  

  WASHINGTON A small group of Republican lawmakers will join President Barack Obama's historic trip to Cuba on Sunday, underlining growing divisions in the party over the future of the United States' trade embargo against the island nation.At least five Republicans, all known for favoring normal trade relations with Cuba, will make the trip, congressional sources and lawmakers told Reuters. Republican congressional leaders have made opposition to President Barack Obama's easing of the Cuban trad..

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• Rousseff supporters rally to counter anti-government protests

  

  SAO PAULO/BRASILIA Supporters of Brazil's ruling Workers' Party joined street rallies on Friday to back the beleaguered government of President Dilma Rousseff, while her opponents in Congress started the clock on impeachment proceedings.Brazil's political crisis also reached the Supreme Court, which has received a dozen motions to suspend this week's appointment of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Rousseff's chief of staff. The post, which has inflamed government opponents, gives ..

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• UN says Saudi-led bombing of Yemen market may be international crime

  

  GENEVA/RIYADH The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen may be responsible for "international crimes", a category that includes war crimes and crimes against humanity, the top U.N. human rights official said on Friday. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, condemned an air strike in Yemen this week and added that the coalition was "responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as all other forces put together".More than 6,000 people have been killed sinc..

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• Former Pakistan military ruler, facing trial, heads to Dubai

  

  Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf left Pakistan early Friday morning to receive medical care abroad, his aides said, leaving behind his trials on treason and murder charges for a city where he lived in exile for years.The 72-year-old former military chief has pledged to return to Pakistan, where he seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup, and the country's supreme court granted him permission this week to travel abroad for treatment of a back injury.However, prosecutors and others in Pakista..

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