■ISRAEL
Diplomat to face questioning
The Foreign Ministry said it had summoned for consultation a senior diplomat who in a confidential memo criticized the government for harming ties with the US. A ministry statement said on Saturday that the consul-general in Boston, Nadal Tamir, would arrive in Jerusalem this week to give a “clarification” to the ministry’s director-general. It said Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the summons. Tamir wrote an internal memo that was leaked to Channel 10 TV. It said that public clashes with Washington over the US demand for a settlement construction freeze were causing “strategic damage to Israel” and undermining the special relationship between the two countries.
■MEXICO
Crystal meth lab raided
Army troops shut down what they called one of the world’s largest and most modern illicit drug factories, a plant that covered an immense piece of property in a remote area of the state of Durango, media reports said on Saturday. The plant, which encompassed 22 different buildings on 240 hectares, was used to produce methamphetamine, the chemically produced drug also known as crystal meth, and to process marijuana. The buildings were spread out over the acreage and covered with camouflage to escape discovery from the air, the newspaper reported.
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