Suspected French arsonist is put under formal investigation: source
MARSEILLE (Reuters) – A suspected arsonist was placed under formal investigation and held in custody in France on Friday on suspicion of having started several fires on the French Riviera, a judicial source said.
30 children die in hospital in northern India: medical official
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Thirty children have died at a hospital in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh since Wednesday due to encephalitis and delivery-related issues, a senior medical official said on Friday.
It never got paid for the Volvos, but could Sweden mediate with North Korea?
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden has not yet been paid by North Korea for the hundreds of Volvo sedans it imported in the 1970s and which can still be seen on the streets of the communist country.
Venezuela’s hunted opposition magistrates flee by boat, on foot
CARACAS (Reuters) – Miguel Angel Martin says he knew he had to leave Venezuela when intelligence agents in black vehicles started tailing him, days after the opposition-run Congress named him a magistrate to an alternative Supreme Court in defiance of …
Hezbollah steers Lebanon closer to Syria, straining efforts to stay neutral
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah and its allies are pressing the Lebanese state to normalize relations with President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, testing Lebanon’s policy of “dissociation” from the Syrian conflict and igniting a political row.
U.S. diplomat engaging in back-channel diplomacy with North Korea – AP
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has been engaging in back-channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months, the Associated Press reported on Friday, as President Donald Trump stepped up his warnings to Pyongyang amid rising tensions in th…
Egypt train crash kills dozens, injures more than 100 people
CAIRO (Reuters) – Two trains collided in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria on Friday killing 42 people and injuring 133 others, the health ministry said.
German court sentences three Syrian smugglers over migrant deaths
TRAUNSTEIN, GERMANY (Reuters) – A German court sentenced three Syrian men on Friday for running a smuggling ring from Turkey to Europe over the deaths of 13 migrants in the Mediterranean two years ago.
U.N. urges end to Gaza crisis in punishing summer heat
GENEVA/GAZA (Reuters) – A political crisis in Gaza is depriving two million people of electricity, vital medical care and clean water in sweltering summer temperatures, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday.
German garbage truck rolls onto car, killing five: media
BERLIN (Reuters) – A garbage truck tipped over on Friday and landed on a car in southern Germany, killing five people, local media reported.
