NATO says migrant numbers in Aegean falling, warns routes could change
ANKARA (Reuters) – The number of migrants and refugees crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey into Europe is falling significantly but people smugglers can rapidly change routes and authorities must not reduce their security efforts prematurely, the head …
North Korea may have resumed tunneling at nuclear test site: U.S. report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Satellite images show that North Korea may have resumed tunnel excavation at its main nuclear test site, similar to activity seen before the country’s most recent nuclear test in January, a U.S. North Korea monitoring website rep…
Migration funding should be ‘innovative’, Juncker tells Renzi
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission wants to find “innovative” financial resources to address the root causes of migration in Africa and elsewhere, the EU executive’s president Jean-Claude Juncker said in a letter to Italian Prime Minister Mat…
More than 100 feared dead in India heat wave
BHUBANESWAR, India/KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – More than 100 people are feared dead in India in an early-summer heat wave which forced schools to close and halted outdoor work like construction, government officials said on Thursday.
Survey shows plunging public support for TTIP in U.S. and Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) – Support for the transatlantic trade deal known as TTIP has fallen sharply in Germany and the United States, a survey showed on Thursday, days before Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Barack Obama meet to try to breathe new life …
Turkey freezes assets of Yemeni ex-president Saleh
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey has frozen the assets of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, in line with a decision by the U.N. Security Council, the government said in its Official Gazette on Thursday.
Indonesia fears piracy surge could turn regional waters into ‘new Somalia’
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia fears piracy on a busy shipping route along its maritime border with the Philippines could hit levels seen in Somalia unless security is tightened, the chief security minister said on Thursday, following a spate of kidnapp…
Thai junta chief accuses former PM Thaksin of stirring protests
BANGKOK (Reuters) – The leader of Thailand’s junta on Thursday accused fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of being behind a series of small anti-junta protests that have flared in the capital this week.
French defense minister says Islamic State can be eradicated
PARIS (Reuters) – The conditions necessary to eradicate Islamic State in Syria and Iraq are “in the process of coming together”, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Info radio on Thursday.
Taiwan, in flip-flop, detains suspects in China-linked telecoms scam
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan prosecutors angered China over the weekend by freeing 20 Taiwanese suspected of defrauding Chinese nationals in a telecoms scam but on Thursday changed their minds, taking most of them into custody on suspicion of committing “…
