Migrant shelter made of shipping containers opens in France’s Calais
CALAIS, France (Reuters) – France on Monday opened a migrants’ shelter made of converted shipping containers in Calais on its northern Channel coast to try to bring some order to the so-called “jungle” camp in sand dunes near the port.
Genocide trial for Guatemala ex-dictator Rios Montt suspended
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A retrial of former Guatemala dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity was suspended again for the court to resolve outstanding legal petitions, a judge said on Monday.
Magnitude 6.1 quake strikes 127 km west of Hokkaido, Japan: USGS
(Reuters) – A magnitude 6.1 quake struck in the ocean 127 km (79 miles) west of the city of Asahikawa on the Japanese island of Hokkaido early on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesian Moluccas: USGS
LONDON (Reuters) – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck on Monday, around 330 km (205 miles) north-northwest of Indonesia’s Molucca islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Iran seeks to limit diplomatic fall-out from Saudi embassy attacks
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran took steps on Monday to try to limit the diplomatic damage from an attack on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran by an angry mob, laying blame on a top security official and saying some of those who carried out the attack were being…
Bosnia holds four for intending to join Islamic State, seizes weapons
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnian police detained five people on suspicion of planning to join Islamic State and seized a cache of weapons and ammunition in raids in the northwest of the country on Monday, police said. One of the five was later released.
Teenager says attack on Jewish teacher was for Islamic State: prosecutor
PARIS (Reuters) – A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in Marseille on Monday is a Turkish citizen of Kurdish origin who said he acted in the name of the militant Islamist group Islamic State, the prosecutor in the southern French city of Marseille…
EU’s Mogherini: no set date for dropping Iran sanctions, could be soon
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The European Union has no firm timeframe for lifting sanctions on Iran and the move could come soon, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday.
Turkey unsettled by ‘anti-Islamic’ messages in U.S. presidency race: minister
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey is unsettled by “anti-Islamic” messages in the U.S. presidential campaign, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday, citing the 2016 race for the White House that has seen the Republican front-runner advocate a ban on …
North Korea overcomes poverty, sanctions with cut-price nukes
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has developed a nuclear weapons program despite poverty and international sanctions, using home-grown technology and virtually free labor to cut costs, experts said.
