U.N. climate deal ‘quite close’: Latvian president
RIGA (Reuters) – World leaders are “quite close” to reaching a deal to fight climate change when they meet in Paris from Monday, Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Europe’s first Green party head of state, said, adding any deal should be legally bindi…
Austria’s Faymann sees compromise in EU-Turkey talks: Kurier
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann expects the European Union and Turkey to strike a deal on how to stem a tide of refugees into the continent in return for financial aid and closer ties, he told the Kurier paper.
Lie detectors, solitary: How South Korea screens refugees
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has spent decades screening refugees from a hostile neighbor but some enemy agents manage to get through, underlining the challenges Western nations face in dealing with a far larger influx of people escaping the war in Sy…
Japan’s tiny refugee community urges Tokyo to open doors wider
YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) – Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn’t stand out.
Putin, citing national security, signs Turkey sanctions decree
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing a raft of punitive economic sanctions against Turkey on Saturday, underlining the depth of the Kremlin’s anger toward Ankara four days after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.
Britain’s Fallon says parliament’s Syria vote uncertain: Sunday Telegraph
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is not certain to hold a parliamentary vote on taking military action against Islamic State forces in Syria, defense minister Michael Fallon said, as it would become “difficult” if opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn orders his M…
Suspected jihadists kill three in rocket attack on U.N. base in Mali
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Unknown attackers fired rockets at a United Nations peacekeeping base in northern Mali on Saturday, killing three people inside, the U.N. said, in the latest sign that the West African country’s Islamist insurgency is intensifying.
Congo president urges national dialogue before elections
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila made a long-anticipated public call on Saturday for a national dialogue to prepare for elections next year, an idea regarded with suspicion by his opponents.
Top Kurdish lawyer shot dead in southeast Turkey
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A prominent Kurdish lawyer and rights activist was shot in the head and killed on Saturday, in an incident likely to fuel further unrest in Turkey’s mostly Kurdish southeast.
Twin suicide attacks kill five people in north Cameroon: sources
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants detonated two suicide bombs in a village in northern Cameroon on Saturday afternoon, killing at least five people, security sources and an official told Reuters.
