Kosovo buying body scanner to stop MPs taking teargas into parliament
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo’s government is buying a body scanner to try to stop opposition legislators smuggling teargas canisters into parliament and releasing them as they have done in every session for the past six months.
How much is that halo? Pope imposes checks on costs of making saints
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Thursday made key changes to the complex and often opaque financial procedures involved in the making of Roman Catholic saints.
Russia registers eight ceasefire violations in Syria in 24 hours: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday it had registered eight ceasefire violations in Syria over the previous 24 hours, RIA news agency reported.
Slovenia to accept first migrants in relocation quota in April
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenia expects to receive the first 40 migrants of its EU quota in April, Bostjan Sefic, state secretary at the Interior Ministry, said on Thursday.
China blasts U.S. ‘rape and murder’ at U.N. Human Rights Council
GENEVA (Reuters) – China strongly rejected U.S.-led criticism of its human rights record at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday, saying the United States was hypocritical and guilty of crimes including the rape and murder of civilians.
U.N. labor agency urges Gambia to investigate union leader’s death
DAKAR (Reuters) – The head of the United Nations labor agency ILO has urged Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh to investigate the death of a trade union leader allegedly killed by intelligence agents, a spokesman for the agency said on Thursday.
Iran says missile tests not violation of nuclear deal: state TV
ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran said on Thursday that its test-firing of ballistic missiles, designed to be able to hit Israel, were not a violation of a landmark nuclear deal reached in 2015 with six major powers, state TV quoted a senior official as saying.
Rubbish piles up in Spain’s Malaga on tenth day of strike
MALAGA (Reuters) – A strike by refuse collectors in the Spanish city of Malaga entered its 10th day on Thursday, resulting in huge piles of rubbish clogging the streets and raising concerns the smell and mess could put off tourists ahead of the Easter …
Five Afghans, including baby, drown trying to reach Greece from Turkey
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Five Afghans, including two children and a six-month old baby, drowned in the Aegean overnight trying to reach Greece as Turkey starts to implement an EU agreement to curb illegal migration.
Turkey detains 10 suspected Islamic State members in raids
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish police detained 10 suspected members of Islamic State in raids in the mainly Kurdish city of Bingol in southeastern Turkey, and accused them of recruiting and preparing an attack, security sources said on Thursday…
