Merkel wants Germany to get refugees into workforce faster
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Germany needed “viable solutions” to integrate refugees into the workforce faster after she met with blue-chip companies, which have hired fewer than 100 refugees since around a milli…
Aid for Syria waits on Turkish border as warring sides bicker
CILVEGOZU, Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two convoys of aid for the Syrian city of Aleppo were waiting in no-man’s land on Wednesday after crossing the Turkish border, held up by security fears and disagreements between combatants on the third day of a cea…
China says opposes ‘unhelpful’ unilateral North Korea sanctions
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Japanese counterpart that China opposes “unhelpful” unilateral sanctions on North Korea but will work within the United Nations to formulate a necessary response to its fifth nuclear test.
Key Mexican official in missing students probe resigns
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A senior Mexican official who played a central role in the troubled investigation into the 2014 abduction and apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers has stepped down from a top government crime-fighting agency.
Brazil’s Lula charged as ‘top boss’ of Petrobras graft scheme
CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors charged ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday with being the “boss” of a vast corruption scheme at state oil company Petrobras, in a major blow to the leftist hero’s hopes of a political …
Facebook post inspires landmark case for migrant workers in Thailand
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tun Tun Win and his co-workers from Myanmar thought life was fine at the Thammakaset chicken farm in central Thailand, where they reared hundreds of thousands of birds for export to the European Union.
‘Lack of options’ force 4 million to flee from one conflict to another: report
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For Ahmad al-Rashid, fleeing from his home in Aleppo, northern Syria, to Iraq in 2013 was the safest choice he had.
U.S., Israel sign $38 billion military aid package
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will give Israel $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade, the largest such aid package in U.S. history, under a landmark agreement signed on Wednesday.
Obama, meeting with Suu Kyi, says U.S. ready to lift Myanmar sanctions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi called on Wednesday for the lifting of economic sanctions against her country, and President Barack Obama, in their first White House meeting since she became leader, said the United States was ready to…
IMF board approves $1 billion loan disbursement to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said its board on Wednesday approved a long-awaited loan disbursement to Ukraine of about $1 billion after a review of the country’s bailout program.
