CANBERRA, Australia – A refugee advocate says five asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Iran have agreed to be among the first to leave the Pacific island nation of Nauru for Cambodia under a deal that allows refugees rejected by Australia to be resettled in the Southeast Asian country. …
Read More »
TISDALE, Saskatchewan – A woman and three children have been killed in a small community in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, and police say the suspect is also dead. Police said Wednesday they received a call Tuesday that a family from Tisdale hadn’t been heard from all day and couldn’t …
Read More »
KATHMANDU, Nepal – 8.45 a.m. (0300 GMT) Nepal’s Deputy Inspector General of Police Komal Singh Bam says at least 3,218 people have been confirmed killed in Saturday’s earthquake. So far 18 people have also been confirmed dead in an avalanche that swept through the Mount Everest base camp in the …
Read More »
BAMAKO, Mali – A resident and an official said that gunmen killed at least three people in an attack on a village in Mali’s north. A resident of Goundam, 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Timbuktu, said the attackers shot and killed the head of the national guard, his deputy …
Read More »
CAIRO – A prosecutor in Egypt’s Nile Delta says he has referred 40 people to trial on charges of belonging to the Islamic State group and planning to carry out terrorist attacks. Bilal Abu Khadra, a prosecutor in Egypt’s Sharqiya province, said Sunday that those charged communicated with Islamic State …
Read More »
LISBON, Portugal – A cell phone text message is straining relations between the two parties in Portugal’s coalition government, which plan to stand together in a general election later this year. Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, in a new biography published late Tuesday, spills some secrets about the tough times …
Read More »
BERLIN – The German government says it doesn’t expect questions about its spy agency’s cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency to damage relations with Washington. The government faces questions over reports that the Federal Intelligence Service, known by its acronym BND, may have known of or even helped U.S. …
Read More »
DAKAR, Senegal – Doctors Without Borders says members of an armed militia raped women en masse in Congo earlier this month after attacking a town in the eastern South Kivu province. The charity group said Thursday it had treated 127 rape victims between the ages of 14 to 70 who …
Read More »
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – An Ethiopian official says 200 human smugglers have been detained as part of the government’s efforts to stem the number of citizens illegally trying to migrate to Europe. Ethiopian Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam told the Ethiopian News Agency late Sunday that the government is looking …
Read More »
KAMPALA, Uganda – South Sudan government troops are setting villages on fire and abusing civilians in an ongoing military assault on rebels loyal to the country’s former vice president, Amnesty International reported Thursday, the latest allegations of serious rights abuses since the resumption of heavy fighting last month. Citing witness …
Read More »