Greek mayor hands out aid as Kos sets up floating migrant center
KOS, Greece (Reuters) – Overcome by emotion, the mayor of Kos handed out water, milk and food to hundreds of Syrian migrants on Friday as a huge passenger ship docked on the Greek island to serve as a floating reception center and dormitory.
Ceasefire in Syrian town, villages extended until Sunday
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A ceasefire between the warring sides in a Syrian town and two villages has been extended until Sunday, sources on both sides said on Friday.
U.N. warns of mounting political crisis in Burundi
GENEVA (Reuters) – Burundi’s leaders need to renounce violence and resume their dialogue to prevent the country’s political crisis from escalating, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday.
Iraqi Kurds say Islamic State attacked them with chemical weapons
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Kurdish authorities in Iraq said on Friday they believe their Peshmerga forces have been attacked with chemical weapons, possibly chlorine gas, by Islamic State militants.
Where’s Shekau? Chad president messes with Boko Haram’s mind
ABUJA (Reuters) – If Chadian President Idriss Deby is to be believed, Abubakar Shekau, the bearded and bandoliered leader of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, is no more.
Three Africans found critically ill in car’s hidden compartments: Spain
MADRID (Reuters) – Three young African men who squeezed into hidden compartments in a car to enter a Spanish territory in North Africa were found in critical condition by border police, the Spanish government said on Friday.
Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric calls for reforms to start with judiciary
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called on parliament and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Friday to focus their anti-corruption campaign first on improving the judiciary.
Russia steps up demand for U.S. to drop European missile shield
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia urged the United States on Friday to scrap plans to station parts of a missile shield system in Europe now that Iran has reached an agreement with world powers to limit its nuclear program.
In Germany, grateful refugee names her child ‘Angela Merkel’
BERLIN (Reuters) – A Ghanaian refugee who has been granted asylum in Germany named her newborn daughter after Chancellor Angela Merkel in gratitude for being allowed to stay in the country.
Austrian treatment of refugees ‘scandalous:’ Amnesty
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s treatment of asylum seekers at a center near Vienna is “scandalous”, Amnesty International said on Friday, accusing the country of neglecting homeless and hungry migrants who are flocking in record numbers to western Europe…
