Bulgaria’s fence to stop migrants on Turkey border nears completion
GOLIAM DERVENT Bulgaria (Reuters) – Bulgaria has largely completed the construction of a 33-km (21-mile) barbed wire fence at the border with its southeastern neighbor Turkey as it tries to cope with asylum seekers, its defense minister said on Thursda…
Ukraine says Malaysian airliner shot down, 295 dead: agency
KIEV (Reuters) – A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
Talks to end South African wage strike resume at weekend: SEIFSA
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Wage talks with South Africa’s metalworkers union will resume at the weekend, an employer body said on Thursday, denying a report of a government-brokered deal to end a strike that is further sapping an ailing economy.
UK’s Cameron, EU’s Juncker ‘high five’ and make up
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – David Cameron shared a “high five” greeting with Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday when the two men held their first private talks since the British leader’s failed attempt to block the Luxembourger from becoming European Commission …
Assassination, airport shelling deepen Libya’s chaos
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Several shells hit the terminal of Libya’s main airport on Thursday as rival militias fought in Tripoli for a fifth day, and gunmen assassinated a female politician in the east.
UK summons Spanish envoy over ‘provocative’ Gibraltar naval activity
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government said on Thursday it had summoned Spain’s ambassador to protest over what it described as “provocative” activity by the Spanish navy near the disputed territory of Gibraltar.
UK coalition strained as Deputy PM likens Cameron’s policies to Putin’s
LONDON (Reuters) – Strains in Britain’s two-party coalition surfaced on Thursday as David Cameron’s governing partner likened the prime minister’s policies to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other “tyrants”.
UK apologises for scheme that let Irish bomb suspect go free
LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) – A British scheme to inform Irish nationalist militants they were no longer wanted by police was flawed, the government said on Thursday, apologising for a policy that allowed a suspected bomber to walk free earlier this year….
Hezbollah and al Qaeda clash on Syria-Lebanon frontier
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah and the Syrian branch of al Qaeda have fought a deadly five-day battle in Syria near the border with Lebanon, a Hezbollah source and a fighter for the Nusra Front said on Thursday.
Sri Lanka to investigate war crimes; appoints foreign experts
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s president has extended the terms of a commission investigating missing people and possible war crimes in the country’s 26-year civil war, bringing in foreign experts for the first time to advise on the inquiry, the gover…
