Swedish Migration Agency cuts 2016 asylum seeker forecast
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Asylum seeker numbers in Sweden are set to drop to around 29,000 this year from a record 163,000 in 2015 as tougher rules imposed by the center-left government bite, the Migration Agency said on Tuesday.
UK government backs third runway at Heathrow Airport: Sky News
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government has decided to allow Heathrow airport to build a new runway, Sky News reported on Tuesday.
Turkey’s post-coup emergency rule led to torture, abuse: rights group
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey has effectively written a “blank check” to security services to torture people detained after a failed military coup attempt, a U.S.-based rights group said on Tuesday, citing accusations of beatings, sleep deprivation and s…
Indonesia jails Australian man for 15 years for molesting girls
DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) – An Indonesian court on Tuesday jailed an Australian man for 15 years for sexually molesting several girls on the resort island of Bali.
British banker’s torture video stuns jury in Hong Kong murder trial
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San Diego to South China Sea: U.S. Navy tested new command in latest challenge to China
TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy destroyer that sailed near Chinese-claimed islands in the South China Sea last week was under orders from the Third Fleet headquarters in San Diego, a first aimed at bolstering U.S. maritime power in the region, two sour…
Explosion hits southern Turkey’s Antalya, some casualties
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An explosion outside a chamber of commerce building in Turkey’s southern resort city of Antalya wounded several people on Tuesday but the mayor said there were no life-threatening injuries and the blast may have been an accident.
Islamic State takes control of half Iraqi town near Jordan-Syria border: sources
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters expanded the area under their control in a remote western Iraqi town near the borders with Syria and Jordan from a third to about half, security sources said on Tuesday.
Explosion hits southern Turkey’s Antalya, ambulances sent to area: CNN Turk
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An explosion rocked the car park of a chamber of commerce building in the resort province of Antalya in southern Turkey on Tuesday and ambulances were sent to the area, broadcaster CNN Turk reported.
Twelve killed in attack in northeast Kenya: media
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Twelve people were killed in an attack in Mandera in northeast Kenya on Tuesday by suspected Islamist militants from the Somalia’s al Shabaab group, Kenyan media quoted police as saying, the latest strike in an area by the militants…
