Exclusive: Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world’s immigration problems.
China says it regrets U.S. quitting U.N. rights council
BEIJING (Reuters) – China expressed regret on Wednesday over a U.S. decision to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council, with state media saying the image of the United States as a defender of rights was “on the verge of collapse”.
Taliban kill 30 Afghan soldiers in first major attack since ceasefire
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban militants killed 30 Afghan soldiers and captured a military base in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday, the provincial governor said, their first major attack since a ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
Austria’s Kurz plans to meet Merkel, other leaders on migration
LINZ, Austria (Reuters) – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is likely to meet his German counterpart Angela Merkel and other European leaders this week to discuss migration, he said on Wednesday.
Taliban kill 30 Afghan soldiers and take base in first major attack since ceasefire
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban militants killed 30 Afghan soldiers and captured a military base in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday, the provincial governor said, their first major attack since a ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
Race against time: Officials struggle to protect Rohingya refugees ahead of peak monsoon
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – International aid agencies and Bangladesh authorities are struggling to protect hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees against deadly monsoon landslides and floods ahead of the peak rainy season expected in July….
Young Turk voters show deep divisions of Erdogan era
ANKARA (Reuters) – Eighteen-year-old student Sena Su Baysal, a first-time voter in Turkey’s election on Sunday, can’t remember life before President Tayyip Erdogan took power but she wishes she had grown up in those earlier times.
Indonesia lists 180 missing on doomed ferry, launches underwater search
TIGARAS, Indonesia (Reuters) – The death toll from an Indonesian ferry disaster could top 180, as authorities raised an estimate of the number of people missing two days after the wooden tourist boat sank in a lake formed in the crater of an ancient vo…
Trump says would back both House immigration bills as separation crisis grows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told Republican lawmakers on Tuesday he would back either of the immigration bills making their way through the House of Representatives, as the outcry grew over his administration’s separation of immi…
South Sudan rebel leader Machar arrives in Ethiopia for talks to end civil war
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar arrived in Ethiopia on Wednesday for a meeting with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, as part of talks to try to negotiate an end to a five-year-old civil war, a rebel spokesman and an Et…
