London underground train station reopens after ‘customer incident’
LONDON (Reuters) – London’s Bond Street underground train station reopened on Thursday after what the transport operator called a “customer incident” forced the closure of part of the line.
Hate crimes soared after UK attacks, but fell soon after: police
LONDON (Reuters) – Hate crimes in Britain spiked in the aftermath of three attacks blamed on Islamist militants earlier this year but the number quickly dropped in the following days, police said on Thursday.
Mexican official says migration, security at stake in NAFTA talks: report
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico could pull back on cooperation in migration and security matters if the United States walks away from talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Mexican economy minister said in a newspaper report p…
Vietnamese kidnapping included stop at embassy in Berlin-prosecutor
BERLIN (Reuters) – German federal prosecutors said they had assumed control of an investigation of the alleged kidnapping of a Vietnamese businessman and his companion, given new evidence that the two were likely taken to the Vietnamese embassy in Berl…
Freed al Qaeda hostage says becoming Muslim helped him in ordeal
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – After nearly six years as a hostage of the Al Qaeda group in Mali, South African tourist Stephen McGowan said he would keep the beard that brushes his chest when he bows to speak into the microphone.
UK police arrest jogger suspected of knocking woman in front of bus
LONDON (Reuters) – British police on Thursday said they had arrested a 50-year-old jogger on suspicion of knocking a woman into the path of a bus on a busy west London street earlier this year.
‘Beyond the Wall’: Tales of persecuted lives at the Berlin Wall
BERLIN (Reuters) – An open-air installation is to open along an old section of the Berlin Wall at the weekend, featuring photos of soldiers patrolling the former deadly border, and stories of those persecuted behind it.
Zambian police free opposition leader accused of defaming president
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Police in Zambia freed an opposition leader on Thursday after holding him in detention for a week on accusations of defaming President Edgar Lungu, an offence that carries a maximum five-year prison term.
Buoyant bitcoin stirs crypto-bubble fears
LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin and other “cryptocurrencies” are big money, virtually as big as Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland combined.
Video shows migrants fleeing boat landing on Spanish resort beach
MADRID (Reuters) – A dinghy carrying dozens of migrants landed on Wednesday in the middle of a beach full of holiday makers in Zahara de los Atunes on the coast of Andalusia, southern Spain.
