EU, ex-Soviet neighbors patch over rifts with eye on Russia
RIGA (Reuters) – Looking over their shoulders at Russia, the European Union and six former Soviet neighbors patched up their differences to renew vows of cooperation in the interests of peace and security at a summit on Friday.
Accused arms smuggler left Tunisia for Italy before museum attack: official
TUNIS/MILAN (Reuters) – A Moroccan man supplied arms for a March attack on Tunisia’s Bardo Museum and then boarded a migrant boat for Italy, where he is now held, a Tunisian government official said on Friday.
Islamic State expands its ‘state’
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Almost a year after Islamic State’s shock capture of Mosul, Iraq’s second city, the black flags of the jihadis have been raised over Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province to the west of Baghdad, seat of Iraq’s increasingly theoretical central government.
Myanmar’s Rakhine State denies persecution at root of migrant crisis
SITTWE, Myanmar/YANGON (Reuters) – The head of the Myanmar state from which thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing denied that persecution had prompted the exodus after the United States called on the country to deal with its root causes.
Netherlands plans to ban full-face veil in public places
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government on Friday agreed to introduce a partial ban on the wearing of the full-face veil in public places, the Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement.
NATO says sets date for 2016 summit in Warsaw
WARSAW (Reuters) – The NATO summit in Warsaw scheduled for 2016 will take place on July 8-9, the U.S.-led alliance said on Friday.
U.N. panel adopts new rules on treatment of prisoners
VIENNA (Reuters) – A United Nations commission on Friday adopted revised rules on the treatment of prisoners in what human rights organizations hailed as a landmark deal to update 60-year-old international standards.
Islamic State fighters press advance east of Iraqi town
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic state fighters pressed an advance east of Ramadi on Friday after breaching Iraqi defenses outside the city the insurgents overran last weekend in a major defeat for the Baghdad government.
Global refugee crises will hinder resettlement of Asian ‘boat people’: UNHCR
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Resettling asylum seekers who are among the thousands of boat people in temporary shelters in Indonesia and Malaysia will prove “extremely difficult” due to the mounting refugee crises around the world, a U.N. off…
EU to propose relocating 40,000 refugees from Italy, Greece
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission is set to propose next week that 40,000 asylum seekers who have arrived by boat in Italy and Greece should be relocated across the continent in response to what it considers an emergency situation in both co…
