Slovakia’s EU presidency to focus on European border guard, returns to curb migration
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Slovakia will focus on putting a new European Union border guard to work and streamlining deportations of migrants with no case for asylum when it takes over the bloc’s presidency for the first time from July, Interior Minister R…
Exclusive: Syria requiring released prisoners to join army, opposition says
GENEVA (Reuters) – Syria’s government has freed prisoners on condition that they join the army upon their release, the president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition told Reuters on Friday, citing reports from Adra Central Prison near Damascus.
‘Please don’t go!’ German magazine urges Brits on Brexit
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Der Spiegel will publish a bilingual edition of its weekly magazine in English and German on Saturday containing a strong appeal to Britons to vote on June 23 to stay in the European Union.
Syrian government forces seize strategic crossroads in Raqqa province: army, monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces and their allies took control of a strategic crossroads in Raqqa province on Friday in their latest advance towards Islamic State strongholds in the area, the army and a monitoring group said.
South Korea, U.N. Command join patrols to halt illegal Chinese fishing
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and the U.N. Command, which overseas the Korean War armistice, said on Friday they had begun a joint operation to keep Chinese fishing vessels from operating illegally off the west coast.
U.S.-backed forces cut off all routes into IS-held Manbij: Syrian Observatory
BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S.-backed forces seized control of the last route into Islamic State-held city of Manbij in northern Syria on Friday, completing their encirclement of the main target in a major advance against the militants, a monitoring group sai…
Nigerian official confirms attack on ENI pipeline in Niger Delta
ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) – A Nigerian militant group attacked a pipeline operated by Italy’s ENI in the Niger Delta region early on Friday, the militants and a security official said.
Wanted in U.S. and India, Pakistan Islamist criticizes U.S. as envoy visits
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Hafiz Saeed, a Pakistani Islamist with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, led prayers at a mosque in Islamabad on Friday and called on his country’s military to shoot down any American drones entering Pakistani territory.
Migrant boys tell of attacks, murder in Libyan ‘hell’
CALTAGIRONE, Italy (Reuters) – Street gangs in Tripoli, known as Asma Boys, attacked him with shards of broken glass, slicing his leg and his face, 17-year-old Augustine Okukpon from Nigeria said at a shelter in Sicily.
Lawyer of Briton in Kenya denies woman died taking ‘selfies with a gun’
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A defense lawyer for a British business executive who was charged on Friday with the murder of a Kenyan woman has denied a previous account which suggested she had died while taking “selfies with a gun” that accidentally went off.
