Darfur refugees look to Europe for salvation
AL-FASHIR, Sudan (Reuters) – Haroun Idris wants nothing more than to trade his life in a Darfur refugee camp for one in Europe. Like many young victims of Sudan’s forgotten conflict, he has lost hope of ever returning home.
U.S. businessman jailed in Iran breaks hunger strike: mother
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An American businessman jailed in Iran since October has broken his hunger strike, his mother wrote on social media on Monday.
Somalia protests Kenya’s detention of govt. delegation at airport
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia on Monday demanded that Kenya explain why it detained Somali lawmakers at an airport when they were traveling as part of a government delegation, in the latest diplomatic row between the East African neighbors.
U.S.-led coalition sees fewer fighters, lower pay in Islamic State
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. estimates of the number of Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria have been reduced while cuts in their pay are evidence they are on the defensive, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group said on Monday.
For many Palestinians, Israel settlement work the only option
QIRA, West Bank (Reuters) – Mohammad Arbassi, a 56-year-old father of five sons from the West Bank village of Qira, has a diploma in finance and big plans for his children, two of whom are at university.
People-smuggling gangs net 6 billion euros in migrant traffic to Europe: Europol
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – People-smuggling gangs netted up to 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) last year, most of it from the traffic of migrants into Europe, the European Union’s police agency Europol said in a report issued on Monday.
Suicide bomber kills 14 at Afghan clinic
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed 14 people and wounded another 11 at a clinic in Parwan, north of the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, officials said.
On the border, Austria takes migrant fingerprints, then discards them
SPIELFELD, Austria/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – On the Austrian-Slovenia border, one of the last stops on the migrant route to Germany, a policeman explains that after his 12-hour shift taking new arrivals’ fingerprints, most are lost minutes after they are ta…
Violence rages in Syria as Kerry and Lavrov reach provisional deal on ceasefire
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than …
EU membership losing ‘magic power’ for candidates, says Serbia PM
LONDON (Reuters) – Joining the European Union has lost its allure for candidate countries in the Balkans due to the bloc’s migrant crisis and the possibility that Britain will leave the bloc, Serbia’s prime minister said on Monday.
