Brazil police conduct search, seize warrants in probe with BNDES links
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police said on Thursday they were conducting search and seizure warrants as part of an investigation into fraudulent public contracts that includes loans from the country’s massive state development bank BNDES.
Visegrad Group’s goal at EU summit is to help Bulgaria keep out migrants: Hungary
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Central European countries are expected to make joint proposals at Friday’s EU summit and their most important goal is to help Bulgaria in its efforts to protect its border with Turkey in the migration crisis, a top Hungarian minis…
Rebel says Aleppo due to get aid Friday, but has little hope it will
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Humanitarian aid is due to be delivered to Aleppo on Friday following a withdrawal of combatants from a contested road leading to the city on Thursday, a Syrian rebel official said.
Pakistan train crash kills four, scores hurt: rescue service
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani express train crashed into a freight train on Thursday killing at least four people and injuring 93, an emergency rescue service said.
Merkel braced for more misery in Berlin vote in anti-immigrant backlash
BERLIN (Reuters) – Still reeling from a state election rout which unleashed a party row about her open-door migrant policy, Angela Merkel’s conservatives are bracing for further losses in the Berlin city vote on Sunday.
Kenya denies abuse of refugees in push to close Somali camp
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenya reaffirmed on Thursday its plan to close the world’s largest refugee camp by November, rejecting allegations by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that it is harassing and intimidating Somali refugees to return home w…
Kenyan police find note suggesting Islamic State link to Mombasa attack
MOMBASA (Reuters) – Three women who were killed when they attacked a Kenyan police station last week had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, according to a handwritten note police believe they penned before the assault, an officer said on Thursday.
Foreign ministers visit eastern Ukraine as fresh ceasefire begins
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from Germany, France and Ukraine visited eastern Ukraine on Thursday, hours after Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces agreed to a ceasefire in a conflict that has killed over 9,600 since spri…
Ex-Afghan leader attacks new U.S. combat rules
KABUL (Reuters) – Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sharply criticized new authorities giving the U.S. military greater freedom to fight Taliban insurgents, saying they were a further erosion of the country’s sovereignty.
Syrian combatants yet to withdraw from Aleppo road
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces and rebels had yet to withdraw from a road to be used to deliver aid to Aleppo on Thursday morning, a war monitor and a senior rebel official said, a step that must happen for the delivery to take place under…
