Stranded migrants block main Greece-Macedonia artery demanding passage
POLIKASTRO, Greece (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants stranded in northern Greece blocked the main road to Macedonia on Tuesday, angry at delays to their journey north caused by protesting taxi drivers and farmers on the border, a Reuters cameraman said….
Migrants stranded in Greece by taxi, tractor protests
POLIKASTRO, Greece (Reuters) – At least 80 buses packed with migrants, many of them women and children, were backed up short of the Greek border with Macedonia on Tuesday, stranded by protests on either side of the frontier.
NATO strikes Islamic State radio station in Afghanistan, as U.S. ups campaign
KABUL (Reuters) – Coalition aircraft struck Islamic State’s new radio station in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar late on Monday, part of NATO’s escalating campaign to stop the ultra-radical Islamist movement taking root in the country.
Tycoon Tapie shapes up as Trump of French presidentials
PARIS (Reuters) – Bernard Tapie is considering a run for French president next year, a potentially far-reaching move even if it may not create quite the fuss that fellow tycoon Donald Trump has generated in the U.S. presidential primaries.
Russia scolds UK’s Hammond for saying Putin fanning Syrian civil war
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia scolded British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Tuesday for suggesting that President Vladimir Putin was fanning the flames of the Syrian civil war.
Travel ban fuels talk of Myanmar constitutional challenge
NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) – The party of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has instructed its lawmakers not to leave the capital, rank-and-file members said, fuelling speculation of a legal bid to sidestep a clause in the constitution barring the democracy c…
EU envoy appalled by Putin ally’s murder threats to Russian opposition figure
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The European Union’s ambassador to Russia said on Tuesday he was appalled by “disgusting” murder threats made by Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov to Mikhail Kasyanov, a Russian opposition figure, and urged the authorities to react im…
At least one killed in more violence in Burundi
NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least one person was killed in a grenade attack on a bar in Burundi on Monday night, witnesses said, in more violence since the African Union backed away from sending in peacekeepers without the government’s consent.
China’s nuclear envoy in North Korea amid sanctions push: KCNA
SEOUL (Reuters) – China’s envoy for the North Korean nuclear issue arrived in the capital, Pyongyang, on Tuesday, the North’s KCNA news agency reported, amid a push by the United States and South Korea for tougher sanctions on the North after its fourt…
Denmark extends border control on border with Germany
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The Danish government decided on Tuesday to extend temporary control over the country’s border with Germany by 20 days to February 23, Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing Inger Stojberg told reporters in parliament….
