Lebanon army kills three militants near Syria border: security source
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s army on Saturday fired at a vehicle carrying Islamist militants, killing three of them and wounding two others in the north of the country near the Syrian border, a security source said.
Crunch talks for Merkel on refugee crisis as thousands more arrive
BERLIN (Reuters) – Nearly 10,000 refugees continued to arrive in Germany daily, police said on Saturday, highlighting the scale of the challenge facing the country’s stretched border staff ahead of a crunch meeting between Angela Merkel and a Bavarian …
Ex-U.N. refugee agency chief urges Japan to do more to help
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan, which accepted less than a dozen asylum seekers last year, should show more leadership on refugees and craft an immigration policy given its need for foreign workers, a former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Thursda…
Peru’s Garcia promises 6 percent growth if elected to third term
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s former president Alan Garcia kicked off his campaign for a third term with a promise to deliver economic growth of at least 6 percent per year through more public works and mining investments.
U.N. and ICRC chide states for ‘paralysis’ in face of conflict
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer made what they called an “unprecedented joint warning” on Saturday for states to stop conflicts, respect international law and aid…
Special forces in Syria don’t mean USA entering civil war: Kerry
BISHKEK (Reuters) – A decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to send special forces to Syria is strictly focused on fighting Islamic State insurgents and does not signify the United States is entering the civil war there, U.S. Secretary of State John …
Palestinian wielding knife shot dead: Israeli police
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, police said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating.
Clashes at Burundi funeral procession kill one, stoking tensions
NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least one man was killed and a dozen injured in clashes involving police and people in a bus who had been attending a funeral near Burundi’s capital, the police and witnesses said.
Marine Le Pen’s approval rating rises among French right-wing voters
PARIS (Reuters) – Far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s approval rating has risen among those voters who describe themselves as right wing, one month ahead of regional elections, a BVA institute survey showed.
Publisher of slain blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
DHAKA (Reuters) – A publisher of a slain online critic of religious militancy was hacked to death on Saturday in the Bangladesh capital, police said, hours after similar attacks on two secular writers and another publisher in the majority-Muslim countr…
