French police evict protesters as unions plan week of unrest
PARIS (Reuters) – Riot police evicted dozens of people on Friday from a building they took over in protest against labor law reforms that are provoking street demonstrations and strike calls across France.
Germany says Russia probably behind cyber attack on Bundestag
BERLIN (Reuters) – Russian intelligence agencies were probably responsible for a massive cyber attack on Germany’s lower house of parliament last year which forced its computer systems to be shut down for days, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency sa…
New wave of migrants to Italy were not mainly Syrians: officials
ROME (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants were brought to Italy on Friday having been rescued from the sea over the past day, however the majority were not Syrian, as previously reported, but came from a variety of countries, officials said.
Eight Turkish soldiers, 22 militants killed as violence widens in southeast
DIYARBAKIR/ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) – Eight Turkish soldiers and 22 Kurdish militants have been killed in clashes over the last two days, authorities said on Friday, as violence widened in the largely Kurdish southeast following two bombings.
Austrian rail chief should become chancellor next week: party leader
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s ruling Social Democratic Party (SPO) fully backs rail boss Christian Kern to become the country’s next chancellor, the party’s acting leader said on Friday, effectively paving the way for Kern to lead the embattled coalitio…
China says some in U.S. trying to ‘disturb’ Hong Kong
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday accused unidentified people in the United States of trying to “disturb” social order in Hong Kong, after the U.S. State Department expressed further concern the territory’s autonomy was being erode…
Exclusive: Bangladesh Bank remains compromised months after heist – forensics report
DHAKA (Reuters) – Three hacking groups “are still lurking” in the network of Bangladesh’s central bank, putting the bank at risk of further attacks about three months after it lost $81 million in a cyber heist, according to a report by U.S. computer s…
South African court allows silicosis class action suit against gold firms
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s High Court on Friday gave the green light for a class action suit seeking damages from the gold mining sector on behalf of thousands of miners who contracted the fatal lung disease silicosis while working undergr…
Lawyers for Manus Island refugees file compensation claims
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Lawyers acting for 900 people held in Papua New Guinea on behalf of Australia asked a court on Friday to hasten compensation claims for their illegal detention, kicking off the first stage of legal action that could see the refugees …
Syrian Observatory: air strike kills 16 Nusra militants
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An air strike hit a Nusra Front meeting in northwestern Syria, killing 16 senior members of the al Qaeda-linked group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
