Latest sanctions on North Korea starting to bite – U.S. envoy
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States is concerned about North Korea’s investment in nuclear weapons, but there are signs that fresh U.N. sanctions are starting to hurt Pyongyang, the U.S. envoy for human rights in North Korea told Reuters on Monday.
Congo militias kill two rangers in park for mountain gorillas
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Militia groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have killed two park rangers in one of the world’s last sanctuaries for the endangered mountain gorilla, the park said on Monday.
Half of Calais migrant ‘Jungle’ camp to be cleared within days
CALAIS, France (Reuters) – French authorities expect to finish clearing half of a migrant shanty town nicknamed the “Jungle” outside the northern port of Calais within days, a spokesman for the region said on Monday.
Syrian children’s memories of home fade in Jordan camp
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan (Reuters) – Over five years of Syria’s civil war, tents have given way to sturdy shacks in Jordan’s Zaatari Refugee Camp, dusty tracks have been paved, acquiring names, and a generation has been born to parents who fear their child…
Plane crash in northern Kenya kills two French filmmakers: police
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A light aircraft crashed in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya, killing two French nationals while they were filming, police said on Monday.
Ukraine’s president sees finance minister as option to replace PM
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko sees Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko as possibly taking over as prime minister, his spokesman said on Monday, having repeatedly urged the government to resign saying that it had lost the trust of t…
Syrian arrested in Sweden on suspicion of war crimes
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Syrian man has been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of war crimes committed in Syria, the Swedish prosecutor’s office said on Monday.
DNA swabs and portable morgues: on-call for disasters with Kenyon International
Bracknell, ENGLAND (Reuters) – Boxes of DNA swabs, walkie talkies, portable morgue tables and medical gloves fill the shelves at the warehouse from which UK-based Kenyon International rushes to respond to disasters from plane crashes to earthquakes.
Migrant crisis pushes climate change off EU summit agenda
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s migrant crisis has kicked climate change off the agenda of EU leaders’ talks this week, officials said, prompting accusations from green campaigners that the European Union has given up its leadership on environmental issu…
Serbia finds U.S.-bound guided missiles on flight from Beirut
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbian authorities found two U.S.-made guided missiles that arrived on a civil flight from Lebanon and were bound for the United States, a source at the prosecutor’s office said on Monday.
