Overcrowded Greek refugee camps ill-prepared for winter: UNHCR
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece must speed up winter preparations at refugee camps on islands in the Aegean Sea where there has been a sharp rise in arrivals, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.
Kremlin says Russian-Saudi military cooperation not aimed at anyone
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman had discussed military cooperation in talks on Thursday and said other countries should not worry about such ties.
U.N. worries about more refugees as Myanmar reports ‘large numbers’ aim to go
GENEVA/YANGON (Reuters) – Muslim Rohingya are still fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh and the United Nations is bracing for a possible “further exodus”, the U.N. humanitarian aid chief said on Friday.
Austria’s conservatives, Social Democrats to sue each other ahead of vote
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s co-governing Social Democrats (SPO) and conservative (OVP), who are leading in polls ahead of the Oct. 15 election, said on Friday they would sue each other in an escalating political smear scandal.
British PM May faces plot to topple her, former party chairman says
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May should quit to save the Conservative Party from losing the next election and 30 of her lawmakers back a plot to topple her, a former chairman of her party said on Friday.
Anti-nuclear campaign ICAN wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO/GENEVA (Reuters) – The Norwegian Nobel Committee, warning of a rising risk of nuclear war, awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to a little-known international campaign group advocating for a ban on nuclear weapons.
Debris and dust: Raqqa ‘sacrificed’ to defeat Islamic State
RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) – The ancient mud brick walls circling Raqqa’s deserted old city are almost the only structure still intact. Inside, shops and homes spill crumbling concrete onto either side of the narrow roads, block after block.
Catalan parliament to defy Spanish ban on independence debate, official says
BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – Catalonia’s parliament will defy a Spanish court ban and go ahead on Monday with a debate that could lead to a declaration of independence, a regional government official said, as Spain’s worst political crisis in decades l…
U.S. military says ‘opting out’ of some exercises following Gulf rift
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States is scaling back its involvement in some joint military exercises in the Gulf region, a spokesman said on Friday, following a rift between Qatar and its neighbors.
Australians give up 51,000 illegal guns as govt stands by tough laws
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australians turned in 51,000 illegal firearms, ranging from 19th-century weapons to a rocket launcher, during a three-month amnesty that ended on Friday, and which Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said had helped avert Las Vegas-style…
