UK doesn’t need Brexit to curb EU immigration, says former PM Blair
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain could bring in tough new controls on immigration from the European Union without actually having to leave the bloc, former prime minister Tony Blair said on Sunday.
Russia urges dialogue to solve Gulf crisis
JEDDAH (Reuters) – Arab countries and Qatar should enter into direct talks to solve a diplomatic dispute, Russia’s foreign minister said on a trip to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, urging all parties to restore regional unity.
Suicide bomber kills six people in central Somalia: police
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least 6 people died on Sunday after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant just outside a senior official’s office in the central Somali city of Beledweyne, police and residents said.
Irma strengthens as it nears Florida with deadly storm surges
FORT MYERS, Fla (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma gained strength as it was set to make landfall in Florida on Sunday with a double barrel threat of destructive winds and life-threatening storm surges, prompting one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history….
NATO’s Stoltenberg says North Korea’s ‘reckless behavior’ requires global response
LONDON (Reuters) – North Korea’s “reckless behavior” is a global threat and requires a global response, the head of the NATO military alliance said on Sunday.
Nancy Hatch Dupree ‘Grandmother of Afghanistan’ dies in Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – Nancy Hatch Dupree, a historian from the United States who helped set up the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University, has died in the country whose culture she worked for more than five decades to preserve, the university said on Sunda…
Israeli jets break sound barrier in south Lebanon causing damage
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israeli jets flew low over the city of Saida in southern Lebanon on Sunday causing sonic booms that broke windows and shook buildings for the first time in years, security sources and residents said.
Hundreds of thousands to rally for Catalan independence from Spain
MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Catalans are expected to rally in the streets of Barcelona on Monday in what campaigners hope will be a show of support for independence after Madrid moved to block a planned referendum on the regio…
Rohingya refugees in Pakistan fear for relatives in Myanmar
KARACHI (Reuters) – For an estimated 300,000 Rohingya Muslims living in squalor in Pakistan’s largest city, the news from Myanmar in the past two weeks is reviving painful memories of the violence that drove many of them here half a century ago.
U.N. appeals for aid as Myanmar refugee exodus nears 300,000
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The United Nations has appealed for aid to deal with a humanitarian crisis unfolding in southern Bangladesh after the number of Muslim Rohingya fleeing Myanmar neared 300,000, just two weeks after violence erupted th…
