Chilean public workers confront police outside presidential palace
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Hundreds of public workers in Chile clashed with police outside the nation’s presidential palace in Santiago on Thursday, a day after Congress approved a relatively small 2017 wage hike for government workers.
Germany on track for biggest number of deportations since 2003: report
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany could deport as many as 26,500 migrants in 2016, more than in any year since 2003, a newspaper said on Thursday, citing federal police documents.
Philippines’ Duterte says may follow Russia’s withdrawal from ‘useless’ ICC
MANILA/THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he might follow Russia and withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to Western criticism of a rash of killings unleashed by his war on drugs.
EU chair Slovakia presses eastern states’ migration agenda, stirs anger
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s interior ministers will try late on Thursday to bridge deep divisions over how to handle refugees and migrants, but a proposal by the bloc’s current president Slovakia has already drawn an angry response from I…
About 100 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean: aid group
ROME (Reuters) – Six migrants died and up to 100 more were missing and feared dead after their rubber boat sank in the Mediterranean on Thursday, the president of the Italian unit of aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
Russia hopes for Trump new approach to Syria crisis: agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia hopes that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration will take a new approach to resolving the Syrian crisis, Russian news agencies cited a Russian deputy foreign minister as saying on Thursday.
Russia’s Lavrov, U.S.’s Kerry to discuss Syria, Ukraine in Peru
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov would meet his U.S. counterpart John Kerry in Peru this week, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a news briefing on Thursday.
Train to Peru’s Machu Picchu suspends service due to threat of protest
LIMA (Reuters) – PeruRail, the company that takes hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors to the ancient Incan ruins of Machu Picchu each year, suspended service indefinitely on Thursday due to the threat of violent protests.
Car bomb in Syrian town near Turkey border kills at least 13: monitor, rebels
BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least 13 people were killed and dozens were injured by a car bomb on Thursday which targeted a building used by a rebel group in the northern Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights sai…
Greeks march to mark 1973 student revolt, protest against austerity
ATHENS (Reuters) – Thousands of Greeks vented frustration at their economic lot on Thursday as they marched in Athens to mark the anniversary of the bloody 1973 student uprising that helped topple the then-military junta.
