World News Digest

Italian navy says 3,000 boat migrants in trouble off Libyan coast
The Italian navy has said it is co-ordinating the rescue of up to 3,000 migrants in waters off the Libyan coast. The alarm was raised after it apparently...
Thousands of desperate migrants breach police lines on Macedonia border
Thousands of migrants and refugees have broken through police lines on Macedonia’s southern border. A Reuters reporter said officers threw two...
Thousands of drenched migrants remain trapped on Macedonia border
The desperate scenes along Macedonia’s southern border have continued, as migrants and refugees are stopped from heading north towards western Europe.
Senior officials from North and South Korea meet for talks amid rising tensions
South Korea and North Korea were holding their first high-level talks in nearly a year at a border village on Saturday to defuse mounting tensions that...
Thai authorities claim progress in bombing investigation
New surveillance video has surfaced offering a possible clue to the bombing in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, Thai authorities said Saturday. Col.
Agency officials knew of ‘blowout’ risk for tainted water at gold mine
Internal documents released late on Friday show managers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were aware of the potential for a catastrophic “blowout”...
It’s a titi! New monkey species found in Peru
For nearly a century, the carcass of a small, reddish-brown monkey from South America gathered dust in a windowless backroom of the American Natural History...
Police fire stun grenades as thousands of migrants charge at border crossing
Special police forces fired stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants stuck on a no-man’s land between Macedonia and Greece.
Activists jailed for protesting against slavery lose court fight for freedom
Three anti-slavery activists who were arrested during a protest against bondage have lost their appeal against conviction in a West African court.
TV station apologises over re-enactment of Bangkok shrine bombing
A TV station has apologized after dressing a member of staff in a yellow TV shirt and re-enacting the Bangkok blast at the Erawan shrine. Executives...
Florida woman says she secretly recorded Jared Fogle
A Florida woman says former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle told her years ago about his interest in having sex with minors and that she went to authorities...
North Korean troops warned to ‘prepare for battle’ with South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday declared his frontline troops in a “quasi-state of war” and ordered them to prepare for battle a...
Britain and France crack down on migrants
Britain and France on Thursday announced tougher security tools to guard the Channel Tunnel, a new joint police command to target human traffickers and...
Tensions rise as North and South Korea exchange artillery fire
South Korea fired dozens of artillery rounds toward North Korea on Thursday after the North shelled across the border to protest against anti-Pyongyang...
Israel launches strikes into Syria after rocket attack
The Israeli army warned the government in war-wracked Syria it will “suffer the consequences” after four rockets crashed Thursday into the...
With pool but no dungeon: Silence of the Lambs killer’s house put up for sale
A house used as the lair of a serial killer who raises insects and makes a suit out of human skin in the thriller The Silence of the Lambs has just hit...
2,400 refugees arrive on car ferry as Europe’s migrant crisis deepens
A car ferry carrying more than 2,400 Syrian refugees arrived on the Greek mainland on Thursday as a wave of migrants fleeing conflict and poverty continued...
Parachutists leap to safety but seven are killed as aircraft collide in mid-air
Seven people were killed when two planes carrying civilian parachutists rehearsing for an air show collided in mid-air on Thursday in Slovakia. The...
Car parts and batteries plucked out of air polluted with greenhouse gas
It is possible to make something valuable out of thin – or at least heavily polluted - air after all, it seems. Sounds unlikely? It is and it...
Firefighters hurt as blaze rages at Paris science museum for six hours
A fire at one of Europe’s biggest science museums, the Cite des Sciences in Paris, was brought under control after raging for six hours on Thursday.
‘Noisy loudspeaker’ row escalates into exchange of fire over Korean border
What do you do when your neighbor has the radio on too loud? Ask them politely to turn it down? Maybe bang on the wall? For North Korea it was an excuse...
Six policemen among 29 hurt as massive car bomb explodes in Egypt capital
A powerful car bomb exploded early Thursday near a national security building in a popular residential neighborhood in Cairo, wounding 29 people including...
Calls grow for a cover-up: Topless women in Times Square face clampdown
Topless women who pose for photos with tourists in New York’s Times Square are facing a crackdown after being accused of breaking the law.
‘At least 10 people’ involved in deadly bomb attack on Bangkok shrine
At least 10 people were involved in the Bangkok bomb attack that killed 20 people, Thailand’s police chief has said.
International terrorists ‘unlikely to be responsible for Thai bomb’
International terrorists were not suspected of a bomb attack in Bangkok this week that killed 20 people and China was not the target, Thai authorities...
There’s a bear in our pool: Couple’s shock as animal takes a dip in hot tub
A couple had a shock when they discovered a black bear taking a dip in their hot tub pool.
‘Silence of the Lambs’ house, sans dungeon, for sale in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania house that portrayed the lair of a serial killer who raises insects and makes a suit out of human skin in the thriller “The Silence...
Six policemen hurt as massive car bomb explodes in Egyptian capital
A powerful car bomb exploded early Thursday near a national security building in a popular residential neighborhood in Cairo, wounding at least six police...
Police hunt ‘foreigner’ in deadly bombing of Bangkok shrine
A police manhunt was underway Wednesday for an “unidentified foreign man” shown in a security video leaving a backpack at a popular Bangkok...
Turkish unrest mounts amid political uncertainty
Gunmen fired on police outside an Istanbul palace and a bomb killed eight soldiers in Turkey’s southeast on Wednesday, heightening a sense of crisis...

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