Iran says five of 12 kidnapped security personnel freed
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said five of the 12 border guards kidnapped last month by a separatist group on the border with Pakistan had been freed, the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported on Thursday.
‘Desperate’ low-lying Vanuatu seeks to sue climate change culprits
Low-lying Vanuatu is considering suing fossil fuel companies and industrialized countries that use them for their role in creating catastrophic climate change, the foreign minister of the Pacific island nation said on Thursday.
EU says has strong concerns over detained journalists and academics in Turkey
The European Union has strong concerns over the large number of journalists and academics who are still being detained in Turkey, the EU’s commissioner for candidate countries said on Thursday, after talks with the Turkish foreign minister.
Seven killed in attack on Foraco well site in Niger
Armed men killed seven people on Thursday in an attack on French drilling company Foraco’s water well site in southeastern Niger, a security and company source said.
At least three schoolchildren killed in bomb blast near Mosul: Iraqi police
At least three schoolchildren were killed and six people wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, police and medical sources said.
Indian farmers back in Mumbai to demand land rights, loan waivers
Tens of thousands of farmers from India’s western state of Maharashtra marched to the state capital Mumbai on Thursday to demand loan waivers and the transfer of forest lands to villagers who have farmed there for decades.
EU hopes to clinch Brexit deal on Sunday
The European Union’s 27 national ambassadors will try on Thursday to finalize an outline declaration of future ties between the bloc and the United Kingdom ahead of a planned summit on Sunday.
PM May made good progress in Brussels: UK health minister
Britain’s health minister Matt Hancock said that Prime Minister Theresa May had made good progress in Brussels, where she and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker discussed the outline of Britain’s future relations outside the EU.
Merkel’s would-be successor questions Germany’s sacrosanct asylum pledge
A conservative running to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as head of their party has raised an outcry by questioning Germany’s constitutional guarantee of asylum that was enshrined to atone for World War Two Nazi crimes.
Car plows into primary school children in northeast China, kills five
Police in northeastern China have detained a driver who plowed a car into a group of children outside a primary school, causing at least five deaths and 18 injuries, state media said on Thursday.
