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…
British bomber jailed for life for murder of U.S. sergeant in Iraq
LONDON (Reuters) – A London taxi driver, convicted of making bombs which were used against U.S. forces in Iraq, one of which killed a U.S. sergeant, was jailed for life on Friday and told he would spend at least 38 years behind bars.
Somalia’s al Shabaab fighters attack village in Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Militants from Somalia-based al Shabaab attacked a village in northeast Kenya but were beaten back by security forces, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
U.S. approves sale of 10 MH-60 Seahawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of 10 MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia for $1.9 billion, the first step in a major multibillion-dollar modernization of the Saudi navy’s eastern fleet.
Fresh fighting erupts in east Ukraine, three Ukrainian soldiers killed
KIEV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 12 wounded in the latest clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists, further eroding a three-month-old ceasefire, Kiev’s military said on Friday.
Saudi-led coalition steps up air strikes on Houthis in Yemen’s Sanaa: residents
CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi-led warplanes extended air strikes on Iranian-backed Houthi militia in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, residents in the area said.
Turkish police swoop on Erdogan foes, dozens detained
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police launched an operation on Friday to detain dozens of people including businessmen seen as supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, President Tayyip Erdogan’s ally-turned-foe, a provincial governor’s off…
‘My parents tried to marry me off as a child’: Indian activist
CASABLANCA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At the age of 14 Usha Choudary was betrothed to a man she had never met. She refused to go through with the marriage. When her parents insisted, she threatened to kill herself.
Polish court seeks U.S. help on Polanski case by August 8
WARSAW (Reuters) – A Polish court on Friday said that it has requested legal help from the United States as it decides whether to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski over a 1977 child sex crime conviction and that the United States has until Aug. 8 to r…
