‘I’m looking for my mum,’ says sobbing girl as Greek death toll mounts
The death toll from a fire which ripped through a Greek coastal town stood at 80 on Wednesday as frantic relatives tried to track down people missing from the inferno and coroners began the grim task of identifying bodies.
Vanilla villainy eats away at Madagascar’s sweet reputation
Soaring global prices of vanilla should have been good news for Jao Nasaina, a 58-year-old farmer of the luxury spice on the northeast tip of Madagascar.
U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees to reduce jobs after U.S. cuts
The United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees said on Wednesday it would reduce jobs in Gaza and the West Bank at the end of this month following U.S. budget cuts.
Top EU court voices doubts on Polish courts’ independence
The European Union’s top court indicated on Wednesday that it agreed with the assessment of the EU’s executive that the independence of Polish courts could be at risk from changes made by the right-wing government.
Landslides, floods kill five children in southeastern Bangladesh
Heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flooding in southeastern Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing five children and forcing a thousand people to relocate, including in the Rohingya refugee camps.
Turkish court rules that U.S. pastor move from jail to house arrest
A Turkish court ruled on Wednesday that an American pastor be transferred from jail to house arrest, his lawyer said, after nearly two years in detention on terrorism charges in a case which has strained ties between Ankara and Washington.
Islamic State kills about 100 in southwest Syria attacks
Islamic State militants killed about 100 people in a series of attacks on government-held parts of southwestern Syria on Wednesday, including multiple suicide blasts in Sweida city, the jihadist group and official sources said.
Counting begins in knife-edge Pakistani elections marred by suicide bomb
A suicide bomber killed at least 29 people near a polling center as Pakistanis voted on Wednesday in a knife-edge general election pitting cricket hero Imran Khan against the party of jailed ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
German court jails Vietnamese man for helping kidnap ex-executive
A German court jailed a Vietnamese man on Wednesday for helping his country’s secret services to kidnap a former oil executive from a Berlin street last year and smuggle him back to Vietnam.
Europe adopts new pilot mental health rules after Germanwings crash
Three years after the Germanwings crash in which a pilot deliberately flew a jet into a mountainside, the European Commission has adopted new rules on pilot mental health requiring airlines for the first time to carry out a psychological assessment of …
