BEIRUT (Reuters) - The international community is "dismayed by repeated false accusations" that it is working to settle Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Germany's ambassador in Beirut, Martin Huth, said on Thursday. Source: Reuters World News
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will ensure U.S. diplomats based in the country are safe, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday, amid reports that some had suffered a mysterious malady resembling a brain injury that has already hit U.S. personnel in Cuba. Source: Reuters World News
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin asked North Korean official Kim Yong Nam at their meeting on Thursday to pass an invitation to visit Russia in September to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Source: Reuters World News
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah on Thursday swore in a new government led by a former World Bank economist and mandated to review a disputed tax system after widespread protests against IMF-driven austerity measures. Source: Reuters World News
Seychelles has announced a new ban on single-use plastic straws in its continuing efforts to keep the island nation as pristine as possible by reducing plastic waste. The ban, which was announced last week, follows a campaign by the Seychelles Hospitality and Tourism Association. The ban includes straws used in cocktails and other drinks but [...]
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. officials will join talks in Geneva later this month on forming a Syrian constitutional committee, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told reporters on Thursday, signaling movement in a process that had appeared at risk of stalling. Source: Reuters World News
KECSKEMET, Hungary (Reuters) - A Hungarian court sentenced four members of a people-smuggling gang to 25 years in prison on Thursday for letting 71 men, women and children suffocate inside a truck in 2015 and dumping the truck with corpses at the side of an Austrian motorway. Source: Reuters World News
The award of the 2026 World Cup to North America on Wednesday was met with bitter disappointment in Morocco, after its fifth failed bid to host the tournament. The joint ticket of the United States, Canada and Mexico won 134 votes, compared to 65 for Morocco, at a FIFA Congress in Moscow where this year's [...]
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's opposition New Democracy party will file a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in parliament over a deal to solve a decades-old name dispute with Macedonia, its leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday. Source: Reuters World News