Balkan border controls leave migrants in limbo: aid agencies
GENEVA (Reuters) – New border controls in the western Balkans are leaving thousands in limbo as winter sets in, aid agencies said on Friday.
Bus driver who turned Paris attacker skipped police watch
PARIS/DRANCY, France (Reuters) – One of the attackers who blew himself up in Paris’s Bataclan concert hall had missed at least three weekly check-ins with French police who were investigating him on suspicion of terrorism-related activity.
Portugal’s ousted PM says Socialist government proposal unstable
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s caretaker premier told the president on Friday that the Socialists, who ousted him last week, must come up with a more viable proposal than a minority government with unreliable parliamentary support from the far left.
Argentine voters weigh possible sharp turn toward free markets
SAN JUSTO, Argentina (Reuters) – Argentineans heading to the polls on Sunday face a choice between a sharp turn toward free markets and extending a 12-year run of interventionist policies by outgoing President Cristina Fernandez and her now-deceased hu…
France’s SNCF halts Strasbourg rail tests after fatal crash
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s SNCF railway has halted test runs on a new high-speed line to Strasbourg following a derailment that killed 11 people last weekend, delaying its likely entry into service.
Belgium continues to hold two of nine people detained on Thursday
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian authorities continued to hold two of the nine people detained on Thursday in a series of raids in Brussels related to the Paris attacks and one of the suicide bombers, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
Bomb attacks near mosque south of Baghdad kill nine
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least nine people were killed in bomb attacks on a Shi’ite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad on Friday, police and medics said.
Italian police uncover mafia threat to interior minister: source
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) – Italian police arrested six members of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia on Friday as part of an inquiry that an investigative source said uncovered a threat of violence against Interior Minister Angelino Alfano.
Norway’s DNB briefly evacuated headquarter over threat
OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegian bank DNB briefly evacuated its headquarter in Oslo due to a bomb threat on Friday, but employees were soon allowed back in, company spokesman Even Westerveld said.
Indonesia may offer island to process refugees to Australia
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is considering offering a small island to process refugees captured en route to Australia, its security ministry said on Friday, in what would make it the third country this year to offer help with Australia’s tough immigr…
