UK and Netherlands become less migrant-friendly: index
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Britain and the Netherlands have become less friendly places for migrants due to the impact of far-right parties and austerity measures, with both countries falling out of the top 10 in an index released on Tuesday…
Kremlin critic Khodorkovsky named as murder suspect in Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia wants to question former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a suspect in a murder case that has been reopened because of new evidence, federal investigators said on Tuesday.
Millions of children face disease, malnutrition in war-torn Yemen: U.N.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Escalating violence in Yemen has devastated the country’s health system and exposed millions of children to the threat of preventable diseases including measles, pneumonia and diarrhea, the United Nations children’…
Kuwait says in ‘state of war’ with militants, warns of other cells
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s interior minister said on Tuesday the Gulf Arab country was at war with Islamist militants and would strike out at cells believed to be on its soil.
In Yemen chaos, Islamic State grows to rival al Qaeda
DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s leadership of Islamist militancy in Yemen is being challenged amid the chaos of civil war by its rival Islamic State, which could become a bigger threat to the group than the U.S. drones that periodically kill its commander…
Dutch confident MH17 prosecution will succeed, eventually
ROTTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch prosecutor leading the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine last year said on Tuesday he was confident of concluding his investigation successfully but was not yet ready to issue a…
Burundi counts votes as thousands flee political crisis
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Burundi’s authorities were counting votes on Tuesday, a day after holding a parliamentary election that was boycotted by the opposition and marred by sporadic gunfire and blasts.
Russia criticizes new Canadian sanctions, warns of response
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia expressed disappointment on Tuesday over new sanctions imposed by Canada over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis and warned that it would respond.
London police hone response to militant attack in huge exercise
LONDON (Reuters) – Police and emergency services took part in the biggest counter-terrorism drill held in London to date on Tuesday, with about 1,000 officers testing their response to a potential militant attack on the British capital.
Turkey says any Syria measures not act of war but to preserve border security
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A top aide of Tayyip Erdogan rejected accusations the Turkish president was ready to pitch the country’s armed forces into war in Syria and said any security measures it took would be intended only to secure its southern fro…
