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| Don't come to "fearful" Europe, Hungary's PM tells migrants | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Refugees should not risk their children's lives trying to reach Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday as he defended his tough approach to border control in a country on the front line of Europe's migration crisis. Asked about an image of a drowned Syrian child on a Turkish beach which has grabbed world attention this week, Orban said on a visit to Brussels that this was not a moral argument for opening Europe's doors. The moral, human thing is to make clear: Please don't come," Orban said.
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| Two blasts rock Cameroon town previously attacked by Boko Haram | | | YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Two explosions hit a village in northern Cameroon on Thursday that has previously been attacked by Boko Haram Islamist militants from neighbouring Nigeria, two Cameroon army officiers said. "The first was just after 9 o'clock (0800 GMT) in the market in Kerawa and the other around 200 metres (yards) from the (military) infantry camp. For the moment we don't have a death toll," one of the officers told Reuters. (Reporting by Sylvain Andzongo; Writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Congo militia chief tried to protect civilians, war crimes court told | | | By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Lawyers for militia leader Bosco Ntaganda sought on Thursday to counter a portrayal of their client as cruel and bloodthirsty, saying he was a professional soldier who had tried to protect civilians from chaos and disorder in Congo in the early 2000s. Accounts of rape and massacres in northeast Congo have dominated the first two days of his trial, with prosecutors saying Ntaganda gathered a guerrilla army to strengthen his allies and corner the region's mineral resources for himself. "The Union of Congolese Patriots' (UPC) aim was to take political and military control of Ituri and to protect the population from attacks," said defence counsel Luc Boutin. |
| Sri Lankan Tamil named opposition leader for first time since 1983 | |  Sri Lanka's parliament on Thursday named an ethnic minority Tamil politician as the main opposition leader for the first time in 32 years, a sign of growing reconciliation in the nation following the end of a bloody civil war. The majority of the nation's population belongs to the Sinhalese community and the minority Tamils have alleged persecution by the government since the uprising of Tamil Tiger separatists three decades ago. Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, 83, the head of Tamil National Alliance, is the first ethnic minority opposition leader since 1983, when Tamil legislators resigned en masse to protest against a law that compelled them to denounce separatism.
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| Migrants lay on train tracks in Hungary, seeking passage to west | |  By Marton Dunai BICSKE, Hungary (Reuters) - Migrants threw themselves onto train tracks and fled from police trying to take them to a reception centre in Hungary on Thursday as authorities sought to end a standoff that has become symbolic of a European asylum system brought to breaking point. With the government promising to close the country off to migrants by Sept. 15, chaos broke out after a train bound for Hungary's border with Austria was stopped some 35 kilometres (22 miles) outside of Budapest in the town of Bicske, where Hungary has a migrant reception centre. Riot police ordered them off, but many migrants resisted, laying on the railway line or fleeing.
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| Village council in Uttar Pradesh denies ordering rape of sisters | |  By Andrew MacAskill and Mayank Bhardwaj SANKROD, India (Reuters) - A village council in Uttar Pradesh has denied allegations that it ordered two young sisters to be raped because their brother eloped with a higher caste woman. Now, members of the village council in the Baghpat region have told Reuters they passed no such order. Family members of the two sisters also told Reuters they are unsure if the ruling was made.
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| Migrants leave Budapest for Austrian frontier; pressure builds for EU action | |  By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants left Budapest aboard a packed train bound for a town near the Austrian border on Thursday after two days of chaos symbolic of a European asylum system brought to breaking point. Exhausted and confused, migrants crammed onto a train to the Hungarian border town of Sopron, clinging to doors and squeezing their children through open carriage windows. Trains to Vienna and beyond to Germany were cancelled, making it unclear what would be the next stop for the migrants - many of them refugees from wars in the Middle East.
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| War crimes court hears of rape, slavery at trial of Congo's Ntaganda | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Accounts of rape and sexual slavery during the war in Congo in the early 2000s dominated the second day of militia leader Bosco Ntaganda's trial at The Hague war crimes court on Thursday. Lawyer Sarah Pellet described the pain girls suffered as forced "wives" to senior officers and said that girls as young as 12 were abducted into Ntaganda's Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) and forced to be sexually available to soldiers. Lawyers for Ntaganda, who denies all 18 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the 2001-02 war in northeast Congo's Ituri province, are due to make opening statements at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday.
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| Syria mired in conflict driven by foreign powers - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrians are caught between government bombardment of civilian areas and ruthless Islamist groups in a conflict increasingly driven by foreign powers and marked by the "spread of extremism", U.N. war crimes investigators said on Thursday. Islamic State or ISIS forces, who control large parts of northern and eastern provinces, have expanded into the centre and south, instilling terror and committing crimes against humanity, the investigators said. The latest U.N. report documenting murders, rapes and abductions committed by all sides between January and July is based on 355 interviews as well as photographs, satellite imagery and medical records.
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| French soldier in Central African Republic accused of sexual abuse - U.N. | | | A French soldier deployed to Central African Republic has been accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl in the latest in a series of misconduct allegations against peacekeeping forces there, the United Nations' top human rights official said. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said U.N. staff were informed on Aug. 30 of allegations that a French soldier sexually abused a girl in her mid-to-late teens last year. |
| Guatemala's President Perez resigns over graft scandal | |  By Alexandra Alper GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned, his spokesman said on Thursday, after becoming embroiled in a corruption scandal that has gutted his government and plunged the country into chaos days before a national election. Thousands of protesters had flooded the streets of the capital, Guatemala City, and other cities in recent weeks calling for Perez, a 64-year-old retired general, to quit over allegations of involvement in a customs racket. Perez has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and said he would not resign.
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| Half of Germans worried about asylum seekers, shows survey | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - Exactly half of Germans are concerned that the strong increase in the number of asylum seekers is overwhelming them and German authorities, a survey showed on Thursday. Europe is struggling to cope with an unprecedented influx of refugees and economic migrants and Germany is the EU's biggest recipient of asylum seekers, with 800,000 people expected this year, four times last year's level. The poll of 2,373 people by R + V insurance company was conducted between June 5 and July 17. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Madeline Chambers) |
| Venice film puts spotlight on Boston's paedophile priests | |  By Hanna Rantala VENICE (Reuters) - "Spotlight" starring Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo as reporters working on the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of paedophile Roman Catholic priests deals with just a fraction sexual predation in the Church, its director says. Reports of sexual misconduct by the late British entertainer Jimmy Savile and other high profile cases are an indication of the global scope of the problem, and of failures to deal with it, Tom McCarthy said before his film's screening on Thursday at the Venice Film Festival. The Globe's Spotlight team exposed the attacks over a period of decades by priests in the Boston archdiocese who molested young boys but instead of being reported to the police were given counselling and moved to a different parish.
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| Bulgaria detains 125 migrants, sending message to others | | | Bulgaria said it had detained 125 foreigners in the capital Sofia for illegally crossing into the country without submitting requests for asylum, signalling its determination to tackle an influx that has overwhelmed its neighbours. Georgi Kostov, secretary general of the interior ministry, said the migrants, detained late on Wednesday night, would be questioned and may be granted refugee status. Tens of thousands of migrants, most of them fleeing war and hardship in Syria, are trying to reach Hungary through the Balkans from Greece via Bulgaria's neighbours, non-EU Macedonia and Serbia. |
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