JOHANNESBURG / AP A South Sudanese general has resigned while telling President Salva Kiir “you have disgraced yourself” by subjecting the civil war-torn country to ethnic bias and “unacceptable cycles of violence.” The resignation letter, dated Saturday and seen by The Associated Press, comes from Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka, the deputy chief of general staff for logistics. Government ...

  RIO DE JANEIRO / AP The government of Brazil’s southeastern state of Espirito Santo and military police have reached an agreement to end a strike that had paralyzed several cities and led to an uptick in violence. The agreement reached late Friday came after a week of strikes led by family members of the officers. Wives and other relatives ...

  ISLAMABAD / AP Seven Pakistani fishermen who remained jailed in Yemen for over a decade have been returned home. Najum Abbasi, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said on Saturday that the fishermen who hail from coastal areas in the provinces of Baluchistan and Sindh, had crossed international water boundaries 10 years ago and were ...