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BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 8 (Reuters) — The European Commission announced a 500 million euro ($557 million) package of measures on Monday (September 7) to provide relief for farmers stung by slumping prices, triggered partly by the loss of exports to Russia due to EU sanctions against the country. The crisis has triggered a wave of protests which culminated on Monday with nearly 5,000 farmers and more than 1,000 tractors arriving in Brussels, where an emergency […]
SEOUL, September 8 (Reuters) — Families torn apart by the Korean War six decades ago are to reunite briefly near the heavily fortified border of North and South Korea next month under a deal reached between the two sides on Tuesday (September 8), according to a statement from the South. “With regard to the reunions of the separated families, we agreed to hold the reunions from October 20 to 26 at Mount Kumgang. And the […]
HUNGARY, September 8 (Reuters) — Migrants and refugees walking through Hungary complained on Monday (September 7) that police were preventing them from making their way to Budapest. The police initially escorted the group, who were heading to the Hungarian capital after leaving a migrant camp on the border. At Roszke, on Hungary’s frontier with Serbia, around 300 migrants broke through a cordon around a reception camp and set off down the wrong side of the […]
MEXICO City, September 8 (Reuters) — Police in Colombia and Mexico have seized more than two tonnes of cocaine after a sniffer dog discovered part of the consignment which had been dyed black and registered as an ingredient in print cartridges, Colombian police said on Monday (September 7). The shipment, part of which was found in the cargo terminal of Bogota’s international airport, was destined for the Mexican state of Sinaloa, home to the infamous […]
(Reuters) — The German government decided to free up additional three billion euros ($3.35 billion) for federal states and municipalities to help cope with this year’s record influx of refugees and migrants, a joint statement by the ruling coalition issued on Monday (September 7) said. At a high-level meeting that lasted more than five hours, leaders from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition also agreed on a series of other measures, such as speeding up asylum […]
SEPTEMBER 7 (Reuters) — Several hundred migrants woke up in a Hungarian field near the border with Serbia on Monday (September 7) morning, after spending a cold night in the open air. After walking across the border on Sunday (September 6) afternoon, some 500 people, mostly Syrians, were forced to camp out in an open field at temperatures of 8 degrees Celsius, as nearby transit camps were overcrowded with migrants. The field, designated as a […]
SEPTEMBER 7 (Reuters) — Gaza could become “uninhabitable” in just five years time if its current problems persist – these are the findings of a new United Nations report published last week. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report on assistance to the Palestinian people predicted that if current economic situation continues, the impoverished strip could become uninhabitable by 2020. Many Gaza residents when asked about the findings of the report agreed […]
SEPTEMBER 7 (CCTV) — China’s stock market has stabilized and risks have been released to some extent, the securities regulator said Sunday. Market transactions are currently normal for the most part, with liquidity being relatively abundant and innate stability being improved, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). China securities regulator also said to deepen reforms, improve legal framework and enhance market supervision, by possibly introducing mechanisms such as a stock index circuit breaker system, in […]
(Reuters) — The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde said on Saturday (September 5) the plight of migrants is everybody’s problem. A photograph of a three year old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi’s tiny body in a bright red T-shirt and dark shorts, face-down in the surf, appeared in newspapers around the world, prompting sympathy and outrage at the perceived inaction of developed nations in helping refugees. “Reality comes back to haunt you […]
(Reuters) — An overloaded wooden boat believed to be carrying dozens of Indonesian illegal immigrants sank off the coast of Malaysia on Thursday (September 3), killing at least 14 people, 13 of them women, maritime officials said. The boat had left Sabak Bernam in Malaysia’s Selangor state and was heading for Sumatra in Indonesia when the accident happened. Muhammad Aliyas Hamdan, First Admiral at the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, said fifteen passengers had been rescued by […]
Thai police spokesman, Prawut Thawornsiri, on Thursday (September 3) said the suspect who was arrested in the Eastern Sakaeo Province early in the week was found with a list of substances that could be use to make a bomb. “The suspect arrested from Sakaeo, (was found with) what appears to be a recipe used to create a bomb. Right now, we have sent that to an expert to confirm whether this was a bomb recipe […]
(Reuters) — Police said they had made significant progress on Wednesday (September 2) towards finding the mastermind of Thailand’s deadliest attack after an arrested man admitted being near the August 17 shrine blast and fingerprints tied him to the room of a suspected bomber. The unidentified man arrested less than a kilometre from the Cambodian border on Tuesday (September 1) had told police he was not the bomber, but was in same area the […]
