Thousands of Iraqi refugees leave Finland voluntarily
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Thousands of Iraqi refugees who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and to return home voluntarily, citing family issues and disappointment with life in the frosty Nordic country.
Spain’s Socialist leader hopes for confidence vote at beginning of March
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez said on Friday he hopes to have reached an agreement with other political parties on a coalition government by the end of the month and hold a parliamentary confidence vote at the beginning of M…
Interpol refuses Russian request for Khodorkovsky search notice: TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) – International police organization Interpol has refused a Russian request for a search notice on former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s TASS news agency reported on Friday.
Global court judges exclude testimony in boost for Kenya’s Ruto
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Judges at the International Criminal Court dealt a major blow to prosecutors trying to convict Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto over post-election violence by ruling on Friday that some testimony against him was inadmissible.
NATO-Russia Council not yet possible, Stoltenberg says
MUNICH (Reuters) – NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed on Friday how to renew dialogue in the NATO-Russia Council, which has not met since 2014, but are little closer to agreeing a date or an ag…
South Sudan rebel leader wants soldiers out in further hurdle to peace deal
NAIROBI (Reuters) – South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar said on Friday he wanted soldiers cleared out of the capital before he returns to take up the post of vice president under a peace deal, in another hurdle to efforts to end more than a year of fi…
China rules out joining anti-terrorism coalitions, says helping Iraq
MUNICH (Reuters) – China won’t take part in any coalition fighting “terrorist groups” in the Middle East, but will do its fair share in its own way and is already helping Iraq, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday.
Student tortured and killed in Egypt given funeral at home in Italy
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian student who was tortured and found dead in Egypt last week was given a funeral in his hometown on Friday and Italy’s prime minister once again insisted that those responsible be caught and punished.
If ribs visible, you were candidate for crematorium, Auschwitz survivor tells Nazi trial
DETMOLD, Germany (Reuters) – Three survivors spoke on Friday of the smell of burnt bodies and piles of the dead at Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz death camp, one of whose former guards stands accused of helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people.
Three Iraqi presidential guards kidnapped near northern town: sources
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Three members of Iraq’s presidential guard were kidnapped on Friday near a checkpoint run by Shi’ite militiamen close to the northern district of Tuz Khurmatu, police and a local official said.
