EU looks to camps in Africa to cut immigration
VALLETTA (Reuters) – EU interior ministers on Thursday pushed ahead with plans to finance camps in Africa, where the U.N. refugee agency and aid groups would process migrants to prevent them from trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
Unpaid state salaries deepen economic pain in Yemen’s war
DUBAI (Reuters) – Already suffering grievously under nearly two years of civil war, many thousands of Yemeni state workers now face destitution as their salaries have gone largely unpaid for months.
Monitor says IS attack cuts Aleppo supply route, Syrian military source denies
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a fierce attack by Islamic State cut a supply route that links Aleppo to the rest of government-held Syria on Thursday, but a Syrian military source denied this.
Trump summit with Mexico’s Pena Nieto still on, ‘for now’
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto next week is still on “for now”, Mexico’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, despite pressure at home to scrap it over objections to a…
Sudanese opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi returns home after two-year exile
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Leading Sudanese opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi returned to Sudan on Thursday after spending two years in exile.
Britain ‘open-minded’ on timescale for exit of Syria’s Assad
LONDON (Reuters) – Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday Britain was “open-minded” about the timescale for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad relinquishing power and did not rule out joining Russia in military action against Islamic State mili…
Philippines’ Duterte wants to hang rogue cops behind Korean’s murder
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte apologized to South Korea on Thursday after policemen killed one of its citizens, then said he wanted to hang rogue police and send their heads to Seoul.
Turkey says waiting to see outcome of Trump’s Syria safe zones call
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey is waiting to see the outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to order safe zones in Syria, and has long advocated such a plan, Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said on Thursday.
Gaza’s water shortage worsening, no easy solutions seen
GAZA (Reuters) – Marwan An-Najar, a Palestinian from the south of the Gaza Strip, says he has not tasted sweet tap water in 10 years. Every day, he travels four kilometers (2.5 miles) to fill a 20-litre plastic jerrycan at a local desalination station….
Philippines says U.S. military to upgrade bases, defense deal intact
MANILA (Reuters) – The United States will upgrade and build facilities on Philippine military bases this year, Manila’s defense minister said on Thursday, bolstering an alliance strained by President Rodrigo Duterte’s opposition to a U.S. troop presenc…
