Slovakia says it prefers Christian refugees under resettlement scheme
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovakia would prefer to accept Christian refugees under a European plan to resettle people who have fled from wars and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
Bicycles, tents, guitars: Brits send support to Calais migrants
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Festival lover Emily Jennings was so fed up with seeing abandoned tents, she decided to turn British people’s waste into much needed shelter for the increasing number of migrants living in makeshift camps in Calais…
Venezuela shuts two border crossings with Colombia after shoot-out
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro late Wednesday ordered two border crossings to Colombia closed for 72 hours after a shoot-out left three soldiers injured. The members of the military were attacked during an anti-smuggling opera…
Seventeen hurt in clashes at refugee shelter in Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) – Some 11 refugees and six police officers were hurt on Wednesday night during a fight among asylum seekers at a shelter in the town of Suhl in the eastern state of Thuringia, police said.
Tanzania suspends quarter of job agencies in crackdown on sex, labor trafficking
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tanzania has suspended about a quarter of its recruitment agencies in a bid to crackdown on human trafficking after complaints that girls sent as domestic servants to the Middle East were used as sex slaves …
Economy would be key topic at any Japan-China summit: Japan government source
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan needs details of China’s plans for Sept 3. events to mark the anniversary of World War Two before it decides if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Beijing then for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a Japanese governm…
Four Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting tests truce
KIEV (Reuters) – Four Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 14 wounded in fighting with pro-Russian rebels in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military said on Thursday, as a new wave of violence rekindled concerns a ceasefire deal could be crumbli…
Planes collide mid-air in Slovakia show rehearsal, seven dead
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Two planes carrying civilian parachutists rehearsing for an air show collided in mid-air on Thursday in Slovakia, killing seven people, a spokeswoman for rescue services said.
Overwhelmed Macedonia holds up migrants in dusty no-man’s land
GEVGELIJA, Macedonia (Reuters) – More than 1,000 migrants and refugees are gathered in a dusty no-man’s land between Greece and Macedonia, held back by Macedonian police overwhelmed by a dangerous crush at a nearby railway station for trains heading no…
Germany’s Egon Bahr, pioneer of Ostpolitik detente during Cold War, dies at 93
BERLIN (Reuters) – Egon Bahr, an eminent German Social Democrat who with late Chancellor Willy Brandt forged a policy of rapprochement with Communist Eastern Europe known as “Ostpolitik” during the Cold War, has died at the age of 93, the party said on…
