Sharp fall in asylum seekers arriving in Germany: ministry
BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of people seeking asylum in Germany fell sharply in the first half of the year as tougher rules at home and border-closures abroad started to kick in, the interior ministry said on Friday.
Flightpath to Brexit: charting through the fog
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain’s ruling Conservative party has determined that either Theresa May or Andrea Leadsom will succeed David Cameron as prime minister on Sept. 9 and so negotiate British withdrawal from the European Union.
Doctors turn militant over Venezuela’s health crisis
MERIDA, Venezuela Reuters) – A dozen doctors hold a hunger strike in the corridors of an Andean city hospital. In another provincial city, hundreds of protesting medics suspend appointments.
Don’t give UK a generous Brexit deal, EU voters say: poll
LONDON (Reuters) – Voters in Germany, France, Sweden and Finland think Britain should not be given a generous deal when it tries to renegotiate its ties with the European Union, an opinion poll published on Friday showed.
Suicide bomber kills six in mosque in northeast Nigeria: army
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed six people inside a mosque in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state at dawn on Friday, an army spokesman said.
New ‘pop-up’ paper launches for Britons hankering after the EU
LONDON (Reuters) – A new “pop-up” newspaper aimed at the 48 percent of Britons who voted unsuccessfully to stay in the European Union hit the news stands on Friday aiming to cater for what it called their sense of dismay and anger.
‘Balkan route’ still open to migrants, Serbian minister warns
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Around 100,000 migrants from Middle East, Asia and Africa have passed through Serbia so far in 2016 despite the closure of the so-called ‘Balkan route’ which hundreds of thousands used last year to reach Western Europe, a Serbian m…
Germany says forces in Iran trying to torpedo nuclear deal
BERLIN (Reuters) – Responding to German intelligence agency reports that Iran has been trying to acquire nuclear technology in Germany, Berlin said on Friday that certain forces in Iran may be trying to undermine its nuclear deal with the West.
Bangladesh seeks to account for missing youth to head off attacks
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s prime minister has urged parents whose children have gone missing to provide information after some of the militants who attacked a Dhaka cafe last week turned out to be young men who had broken contact with their well-to…
German support for Merkel, EU surges after Brexit vote: poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – Public support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel has soared since Britain voted to leave the European Union, an opinion poll showed, helping reverse a fall in her popularity caused by the refugee crisis.
