Jail threat haunts unlikely lover of Calais migrant
CALAIS, France (Reuters) – She once supported France’s anti-immigrant National Front party. She met and fell in love with Mokhtar, a teacher who fled Iran and ended up in Calais. She now risks 10 years in jail.
Iraqi migrant trains at U.S. border patrol academy
ARTESIA, N.M. (Reuters) – At a training facility in the middle of a desert in New Mexico, aspiring border patrol agent Stevany Shakare sprinted laps in 103-degree Fahrenheit weather as her instructors shouted at her to run faster.
New chance for sick Iranian boy after rescue picture
LONDON (Reuters) – When Emad and his mother entered the Iranian parliament this month, they were hopeful they would get help to treat his advanced illness.
Exclusive: U.N. chief set to name Russian diplomat to top anti-terror job – diplomats
UNITED NATIONS/VIENNA (Reuters) – United Nations chief Antonio Guterres is set to appoint a Moscow envoy in Vienna to head a newly created U.N. Office of Counterterrorism, officials and diplomats said on Wednesday, giving a Russian a top job at U.N. he…
In high-level talks, U.S. asks China to do more to rein in North Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States pressed China to exert more economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea to help rein in its nuclear and missile programs during a round of high-level talks in Washington on Wednesday.
The new, young crown prince reshaping Saudi Arabia
RIYADH (Reuters) – The young prince named heir to Saudi Arabia’s throne has built a reputation as a bold reformer intent on weaning the kingdom off oil and driving a far more aggressive foreign policy to counter the influence of arch-rival Iran.
Egypt sends fuel for Gaza’s only power plant as Hamas links thaw
GAZA (Reuters) – Egypt sent fuel on Wednesday to the Gaza Strip’s only power plant to help alleviate an energy crisis that has left the Palestinian enclave’s two million residents with less than three hours of electricity per day.
U.S.-backed Syrian forces close in on Raqqa from south
BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S.-backed Syrian militias closed in on Islamic State’s Syrian stronghold of Raqqa on Wednesday, taking territory on the south bank of the Euphrates River with the aim of encircling the city, a militia spokesman told Reuters.
Romanian lawmakers oust PM Grindeanu in no-confidence vote
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s ruling leftists overwhelmingly voted to oust Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu’s six-month-old government on Wednesday, opening the way for a new cabinet with a comfortable parliament majority over the next few weeks.
Britain’s Prince Philip hospitalized with infection but is in ‘good spirits’
LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Philip, the 96-year-old husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, has been admitted to hospital with an infection and will miss the formal opening of parliament, but he remains in good spirits, Buckingham Palace said.
