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By Karin Strohecker and Ahmed Elumami EISENSTADT, Austria/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Austria said on Friday 71 refugees including a baby girl were found dead in an abandoned freezer truck, while Libya recovered the bodies of 82 migrants washed ashore after their overcrowded boat sank on its way to Europe and scores more were feared dead. The U.N. refugee agency said the number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach
By Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A boat packed with mainly African migrants bound for Italy sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday and officials said up to 200 might have died. A security official in the western town of Zuwara, from where the overcrowded boat had set off, said there had been around 400 people on board. By late in the evening, the Libyan coast guard rescued around 201,
By George Georgiopoulos and Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS (Reuters) – Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftist Syriza will emerge as the biggest party after next month’s election but without the sizeable margin it was hoping for, the first major opinion poll since he resigned last week showed. The survey also found that almost two thirds of voters felt Tsipras should not have sought a fresh mandate and that his favored
China and the United States stressed the positives in their complex relationship on Friday during meetings between U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Chinese officials ahead of a U.S. visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping next month. While the world’s two largest economies have important mutual interests, like trying to rein in North Korea’s nuclear program, deep disagreements exist over everything from Internet security to China’s claims in the
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition killed 10 people in air raids in central Yemen on Friday, local officials said. One air strike targeted the home of a retired army brigadier in the central city of Ibb, killing him and five members of his family, the officials said. Four more people were killed in separate air strikes on military and security buildings in the city, the officials said.
The United Nations plans a new round of talks between Libya’s warring factions next week in Geneva in an effort to form a unity government and end the country’s crisis, a UN spokesman said on Friday. Western governments see a U.N.-backed peace deal as the only solution to chaos in Libya where two rival governments battle for control, leaving a security vacuum which has been exploited by migrant smugglers and
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Players who have flourished in the iconic No. 7 jersey at Manchester United have had three attributes in common: attitude, ability and aura.
U.S. stocks drifted between small gains and losses in midday trading Friday, at the end of a volatile week.
BEIJING (AP) — Russian hurdler Sergey Shubenkov knows all about his country’s doping scandals, he’s just not paying attention to any to it.
By Yoruk Bahceli AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A U.N. body called on the Netherlands on Friday to revamp its “Black Pete” Christmas tradition, where white performers black up to entertain children, as many saw it as a “vestige of slavery”. Prime Minister Mark Rutte quickly dismissed the recommendations, saying it was not the government’s job to shape folklore. What Christmas songs you should sing, how you celebrate Christmas and Easter –
