Italy rescues 2,400 boat migrants, finds three corpses
ROME (Reuters) – More than 2,400 migrants have been rescued from boats in the Strait of Sicily in the last two days and emergency services recovered three corpses, Italy’s coast guard said on Wednesday.
Slovak PM Fico says parties to split cabinet seats, deal close
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Four Slovak parties led by the leftist Smer have reached an agreement on sharing out portfolios in a new government, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday.
French watchdog calls for children’s shelter in Calais migrant slum
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s top minors’ rights watchdog urged the French government not to leave hundreds of children living unsupervized in a migrant slum outside Calais without proper shelter.
Algerian named as dead Brussels gunman, manhunt goes on
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian prosecutors on Wednesday named a 35-year-old Algerian as the man shot dead by police on Tuesday during a police raid on a Brussels apartment in the hunt for clues to bloody attacks in Paris last November.
Libyans from all sides unite in Benghazi humanitarian appeal
GENEVA (Reuters) – In a rare show of Libyan unity, dozens of influential Libyans from Benghazi put aside their differences to appeal for help for their hometown, a center of violence in the country’s five-year-old conflict, on Wednesday.
Security fears haunt Turkey’s biggest cities after Ankara blast
ANKARA (Reuters) – Ibrahim Ozcan has worked at the fish market in Ankara’s usually bustling Sakarya street for more than 30 years, and even he struggles to remember a time when the heart of the Turkish capital has been this quiet.
Syrian Kurds set to announce federal system in northern Syria
RMEILAN, Syria (Reuters) – Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system imminently, Kurdish officials said on Wednesday, taking matters into their own hands after being excluded from talks in Geneva to resolve Syr…
Jailed Qatari poet released after royal pardon: family member
DOHA (Reuters) – A Qatari poet jailed for 15 years for reciting verses that praised the 2011 uprising in Tunisia and criticized his own country’s ruling family has been freed after receiving a royal pardon, a relative said on Wednesday.
Russia supplied weapons to Iraqi Kurds: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has supplied weapons to Iraqi Kurds, the first shipment arrived on March 14, RIA news agency quoted the Russian consulate in Iraq as saying on Wednesday.
Four arrested for planning attack in Paris: TF1 television
PARIS (Reuters) – French anti-terrorism police arrested four Islamist radicals on Wednesday on suspicion they were planning an imminent attack in central Paris, TF1 television said.
