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By Nick Tattersall and Seyhmus Cakan ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Gunmen opened fire on Turkish police outside an Istanbul palace and eight soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in the southeast on Wednesday, heightening a sense of crisis as the country’s political leaders struggle to form a new government. The Istanbul governor’s office said two members of a “terrorist group” armed with hand grenades and an automatic rifle were
The number of asylum-seekers and refugees to Germany will quadruple to a record 800,000 this year compared with last, twice as many as forecast in January, the government said on Wednesday. Germany has become a magnet for refugees from Africa, Asia and the Middle East and has criticized European Union partners for not doing more. “We’ve got to reckon there will be 800,000 people coming to Germany as refugees or
Nearly 30,000 firefighters and support staff were battling blazes across a handful of mainly western US states, officials said Wednesday, after millions of acres and multiple buildings have burned. A total of 7.16 million acres (2.9 million hectares) have gone up in flames across the country this year, the National Interagency Fire Center said. The firefighters and other personnel, who totaled 28,884 as of Wednesday, were battling large wildfires in
Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Wednesday he believes that euro zone countries and the International Monetary Fund will be able to come to an agreement on IMF participation in Greece’s latest bailout package. Dijsselbloem said that while European governments opposed any nominal writedown of Greek debt, and while the IMF believed Greek debt was not sustainable as is, they will be able to find a compromise in the form
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for the European Parliament to join the so-called quartet of creditor institutions overseeing the country’s 86-billion-euro EU/IMF bailout program. “I deem it politically imperative that the sole European institution with direct popular mandate acts as the ultimate guarantor of democratic accountability and compatibility of economic policy in Europe,” Tsipras wrote in a letter to European Parliament President Martin Schulz. Tsipras’ office said Schulz reacted
AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s second-largest refugee camp for Syrian refugees now has a water well and a new school.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle agreed Wednesday to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex acts with minors and received child pornography in a case that destroyed his career at the sandwich-shop chain and could send him to prison for more than a decade.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Two days before he was due to leave prison, Oscar Pistorius’ early release was suddenly put on hold Wednesday by South Africa’s Department of Justice, which sent his case back to a parole board.
By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – Former Subway sandwich chain pitchman Jared Fogle pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to charges of child pornography and traveling for illicit paid sex with minors. Federal Judge Mark Dinsmore must now review a plea deal Fogle’s attorneys reached with prosecutors and decide whether to accept it. Subway fired Fogle on Tuesday when reports of the plea agreement emerged.
