More than 50 killed in attacks in western Ethiopia: regional official
Men in camouflage uniforms killed more than 50 people and injured 23 others in the Metakal zone of Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region, the region’s peace and security bureau head Abera Bayeta told Reuters on Wednesday.
Dutch railway to compensate Holocaust survivors
The Dutch national railway NS said in a statement on Wednesday it would offer financial compensation to survivors and families of Holocaust victims who were transported via Dutch rail to Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Diseases, food shortages plague migrant ‘jungle camp’ in Bosnia
Aid workers sounded the alarm on Wednesday about health and hygiene conditions in a makeshift forest camp in Bosnia for hundreds of migrants as they face the spread of scabies and other diseases as well as food shortages.
Palestinians reject U.S. peace plan as Kushner keeps silent on political details
Palestinians poured scorn on the Trump administration’s much-touted peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Wednesday, saying its framework for a trade and investment boost ignored their political aspirations for statehood.
Palestinians reject economic solutions from ‘punitive’ U.S.
Palestinian leaders accused the Trump administration of punishing them with one hand and offering to reward them with the other, as protesters turned out in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to demonstrate against a U.S. economic peace plan.
Europeans urge Iran to stick with nuclear deal as ‘no credible alternative’
European states pushed Iran on Wednesday to stick with a 2015 deal with world powers that curbed Tehran’s nuclear program, stressing during a United Nations Security Council meeting that there is “no credible, peaceful alternative.”
Protests in Indian cities after Muslim man is lynched, Modi says he is ‘pained’
Protests were held in several Indian cities on Wednesday following the lynching of a Muslim man last week by a Hindu mob that suspected he was a thief.
‘Do or die’ Brexit could destroy government, warns PM hopeful Hunt
Foreign minister Jeremy Hunt took aim at rival Boris Johnson’s “do or die” pledge to take Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31 no matter what, saying the frontrunner to become prime minister could destroy Brexit and the government.
Netherlands and Canada launch pilot project on paperless travel
A pilot project that seeks to enable passengers to fly between the Netherlands and Canada using their mobile phones, instead of passports, was launched at the Montreal airport on Wednesday.
Four seriously injured in Vienna building collapse: ambulance service
Four people were seriously injured and others were also hurt in a partial building collapse in Vienna on Wednesday, a spokesman for the city’s ambulance service said.
