EU to step up deportations of economic migrants
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union states will step up efforts to repatriate thousands of migrants fleeing poverty rather than war by speeding up deportations and exerting pressure on their home countries to take them back, an EU document says.
Rights watchdog says second young Shi’ite faces beheading in Saudi
DUBAI (Reuters) – International rights group Reprieve said on Tuesday that a second young Shi’ite man who was 17-years-old and a minor when he was arrested in 2012 faces execution by beheading in Saudi Arabia.
Kurds say blood tests show Islamic State used mustard gas in Iraq
ERBIL (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters fired mortar rounds containing mustard agent at Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq during clashes in August, the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, which oversees Kurdish armed forces there, said on Wednesd…
Germany’s Merkel warns EU against migrant crisis nationalism
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned fellow leaders of European Union countries on Wednesday against succumbing to nationalism in tackling the bloc’s migrant crisis.
Suicide bombers kill 17 in Damaturu city in northeastern Nigeria
DAMATURU, Nigeria (Reuters) – Unidentified suicide bombers killed 17 people in three blasts in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Wednesday, a spokesman for the governor of Yobe state said.
Furious but powerless, Turkey left smarting by Russian action in Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey may be furious about Russian incursions into its air space but beyond words of protest there is little it can do, with its dependence on Russian energy and trade keeping its hands tied, and its own Syria policy in disarray.
Russian strikes put Syrian rebel enclave in firing line
AMMAN (Reuters) – A week of Russian air strikes on Syria has left residents of the rebel-held town of Talbiseh, a strategic enclave of opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, braced for a wider ground assault.
Yemen’s Houthis, Saleh’s party accept U.N. peace terms, eye talks
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi group and the party of the former president have accepted a peace plan brokered by the United Nations in talks in Oman, paving the way for resuming negotiations to end months of conflict in the country.
Hollande warns of total war if MidEast conflict not solved
PARIS (Reuters) – Europe must live up to the challenge of an upheaval that has forced hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee Syria, where everyone including Iran, Russia and the West must seek a political solution, French President Francois Hollande…
Half of Czechs oppose taking in war refugees: survey
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Half of Czechs are against accepting any refugees from war zones, a survey showed on Wednesday, underlining the deep opposition in the Czech Republic and central Europe to policies opening the door to growing numbers of asylum seeker…
