Magnitude 7.0 quake hits off southern coast of Japan: USGS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit off the southern coast of Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Friday.
U.S. military aid for Egypt seen continuing despite rights concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress looks set to approve another $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt despite concerns expressed by some lawmakers over its crackdown on dissent while fighting religious militants.
U.S. to provide $115 million in aid to Syrian, Iraqi refugees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Friday that the Defense Department will provide $155 million in humanitarian aid to refugees displaced by the crises in Syria and Iraq.
Rights group says migrants face beatings, abuse in Bulgaria
BELGRADE/SOFIA (Reuters) – Migrants coming through Bulgaria have faced beatings, threats and other abuses by police, a rights group reported on Friday, though the country’s own refugee agency said it had received no such complaints.
Banned ‘narco’ soap overtaken by Venezuela’s real-life scandal
CARACAS (Reuters) – It reads like a typical Latin American soap opera: two relatives of Venezuela’s president were caught in their Haitian hotel and whisked to the United States to face cocaine charges.
U.S. says no diplomatic immunity for Venezuelans charged in drug case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The two relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who were arrested on charges of cocaine trafficking do not have diplomatic immunity from prosecution, the U.S. State Department spokesman said on Friday.
Rights group says migrants face beatings, abuse in Bulgaria
BELGRADE/SOFIA (Reuters) – Migrants coming through Bulgaria have faced beatings, threats and other abuses by police, a rights group reported on Friday, though the country’s own refugee agency said it had received no such complaints.
Kurdish forces seize Iraq’s Sinjar town from Islamic State
NEAR SINJAR TOWN (Reuters) – Kurdish forces backed by U.S. air strikes seized the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State on Friday, a Reuters witness said, in one of the most significant counter-attacks since the militants swept through the n…
Wounded toll at 25,000 a month in Syria, medicines lacking, cholera feared: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) – About 25,000 people are wounded each month in escalating warfare in Syria and it getting harder to deliver medical supplies for civilians trapped in areas held by Islamic State insurgents, the World Health Organization said on Friday…
Chile’s high court asks Vatican for records in sex abuse case
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s Supreme Court on Thursday formally requested that the Vatican hand over all records that Pope Francis has relied upon to defend a Chilean bishop whose alleged knowledge and cover-up of church sex abuse has provoked controve…
