Israel’s soaring population: Promised Land running out of room?
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s birth rate, the highest in the developed world and once seen as a survival tactic in a hostile region, could be its undoing unless measures are taken to reverse the trend.
U.S. leads 22 more air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its coalition partners targeted Islamic State with 22 fresh airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
Ukraine government says will propose more sanctions on Russian firms
KIEV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian government said on Thursday it would propose additional sanctions against Russian companies, adding to a blacklist of individuals and companies to face penalties for reasons of “national security.”
Russia could join anti-IS coalition if conditions met: report
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow could “theoretically” join the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq if its conditions are met, Interfax news agency quoted Ilya Rogachev, a director at the Russian foreign ministry, as saying on Friday.
Finnish demonstrators attack refugees with stones and fireworks
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Demonstrators threw stones and launched fireworks at a bus full of asylum seekers arriving at a reception center in Lahti in southern Finland, late on Thursday, Finnish media reported on Friday.
Two Turkish soldiers, 34 Kurdish militants killed: security sources
DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Two Turkish soldiers and 34 Kurdish insurgents have been killed in a militant attack and Turkish military operations backed by air strikes, Turkish security sources said on Friday.
Greece’s Tsipras says reforms, debt relief are priority
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece needs to move swiftly to secure a positive review of its economic reforms by lenders in coming weeks and start discussions on debt relief, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday.
Pragmatic Catalans cool over independence before vote
OLOT, Spain (Reuters) – Over the past 40 years, Xavier Espuna has made his ham and cold cuts business grow from a small venture in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia into an international business exporting as far away as Japan and Argentina.
Amnesty calls for U.N. inquiry into Yemen’s bloody conflict
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Nations should investigate violations of international humanitarian law committed by all sides in Yemen’s civil war, Amnesty International said on Friday, six months after the start of a Saudi-led military campaign against …
China says resident wounded in shooting on North Korean border
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Friday that it was investigating an incident on the border with North Korea in which a resident on the Chinese side was shot and wounded.
