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| Hungary seeks support for effort to block migrants entering from Croatia | |  VIENNA/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will seek support for its efforts to try to block the flood of migrants on its southern border with Croatia, similar to the measures implemented on its border with Serbia, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Vienna on Friday. Hungary's right-wing government has pledged to protect Hungarian borders and the European Union's external frontiers in response to the migrant influx. A 3.5-metre high steel fence built along its boundaries with Serbia and the government's tough clampdown on illegal migration have reduced the flood of migrants on the Serbian border to a trickle.
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| Two Turkish soldiers, 34 Kurdish militants killed -security sources | | | Two Turkish soldiers and 34 Kurdish insurgents have been killed in a militant attack and Turkish military operations backed by air strikes, Turkish security sources said on Friday. Southeastern Turkey has been trapped in a spiral of violence since the collapse in July of a ceasefire with the PKK, leaving efforts to find a long-term peace in tatters. Overnight on Thursday Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters opened fire on troops in Sirnak province, close to Turkey's Iraq border, killing 2 soldiers. |
| Factbox: Catalonia's secession plan and how Spain would block it | | | About 5.5 million Catalans will elect their regional parliament on Sunday in a vote that has been framed by separatist parties as a proxy referendum on independence. Here is a list of questions surrounding the election and Catalonia's secessionist push: WHY DO CATALANS WANT TO BE INDEPENDENT? People who favour independence say Catalonia, which has its own language and culture, is a "nation" - not a "nationality" as recognised by the Spanish constitution - and that as such they should be allowed to have their own state. |
| British backpackers murder trial extended in Thailand | |  By Prapan Chankaew KOH SAMUI, Thailand (Reuters) - Lawyers for two Myanmar migrant workers accused of killing two British tourists in Thailand were on Friday granted more time to organise their defence, which could put back a verdict that had been expected next month, one of the lawyers said. The battered bodies of backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, both in their 20s, were found on the southern holiday island of Koh Tao last year. The killings raised questions about the safety of tourists in Thailand, the competence of its police and its treatment of migrant workers.
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| Finnish demonstrators attack refugees with stones and fireworks | | | Demonstrators threw stones and launched fireworks at a bus full of asylum seekers arriving at a reception centre in Lahti in southern Finland, late on Thursday, Finnish media reported on Friday. Between 30 and 40 demonstrators, one in a white robe like those worn by the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan in the United States, waved the Finnish flag and shouted abuse at the bus. Some demonstrators also hurled stones and let off fireworks at the vehicle carrying 40 asylum seekers, including several young children, Finnish television YLE said. |
| China says resident wounded in shooting on North Korean border | | | China said on Friday that it was investigating an incident on the border with North Korea in which a resident on the Chinese side was shot and wounded. South Korean media reports said North Korean soldiers had fired at a Chinese vehicle. At present China's public security authorities are investigating," he added, without elaborating. South Korean media said that two Chinese civilians were injured in the incident in Jilin province. |
| Saudi prince arrested on sex crime charge at Los Angeles mansion | | | A Saudi prince has been arrested on charges of trying to force a worker at a Beverly Hills estate to perform oral sex, Los Angeles police said on Thursday. Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, was arrested on Wednesday and was released on $300,000 bond the next day, according to police and online jail records. The Los Angeles Police Department's special consul division said the prince does not have diplomatic immunity, according to the Los Angeles Times and KCBS-TV. |
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