(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 […]
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Weary and cold, migrants sleep in open air in Hungary
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 […]
Gaza could soon become uninhabitable – UN
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 […]
China stock market stabilized: CSRC
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 […]
IMF’s Lagarde says the plight of migrants is ‘everybody’s problem’
(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 […]
Boat capsizes off Malaysia, at least 14 killed
(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 find suspected bomb making ‘recipe’
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 […]
Thai police says it is closer to cracking Bangkok bomb case
(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 […]
Fire in Paris apartment block kills eight people
(Reuters) – A fire in an apartment building in central Paris killed eight people on Wednesday (September 2), among them two children according to official sources. Four people were also injured in the fire whose cause remains unknown and which broke out at 0400 (0200GMT). It started on the ground floor before spreading into the stairwell of the building. A spokesman from the interior ministry said the firemen had been mobilized twice during the […]
Growing baby hippo has play day in pool
(Reuters) — Five-month-old baby hippopotamus Devi explored San Diego Zoo’s pool with her mother, Funani, on Tuesday (September 1) as visitors stopped to watch their aquatic interplay. Born on March 23, the baby hippo paddled and dove through the pool, attracting the attention of curious visitors who could see the animals through an underground glass window. Now comfortable swimming through the deepest parts of the pool, little Devi practices her ‘barrel roll’ with her […]
Missouri executes man convicted of rape, murder of teenage girl
(Reuters) — The U.S. state of Missouri on Tuesday (September 1) executed a man who, along with a friend, pleaded guilty to the 1989 abduction, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, a state corrections department spokesman said. Roderick Nunley, 50, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m. CDT after receiving a lethal injection of drugs at the state’s death chamber in Bonne Terre, Missouri, corrections spokesman Mike O’Connell said. Nunley pleaded guilty to the […]
Thailand arrests second foreign suspect in Bangkok blast probe
SEPT. 1 (Reuters) — Thai police arrested a second foreign suspect in the country’s deadliest bombing on Tuesday (September 1) and said they believed he played an important role in the August 17 blast that ripped through a Hindu shrine in Bangkok, killing 20 people and injuring more than 100.Thailand’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) spokesman, Winthai Suvaree said the suspect “resembled the yellow-shirt male seen in CCTV footage near the blasted shrine. […]
