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| Germany speeds up new measures to deal with refugee influx |
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 Germany is introducing measures to tackle its refugee crisis earlier than previously expected, a top government official said on Friday, allowing accelerated deportation procedures to begin as early as next week. Germany expects a record influx of more than 800,000 migrants this year, by far the most in the European Union. The tighter rules aim to speed up asylum and extradition procedures for migrants from southeastern Europe, in order to focus on refugees from war-torn countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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| Colombians pin hopes on new agency seeking missing war victims |
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| "We think a historic moment has come, we are filled with hope," Ulianov Franco, director of Families Colombia, told Reuters on Thursday. "It needs to have a high profile that allows it to bring together institutions like the attorney general's office, the coroner's office, the investigator general, the ombudsman - so they make a joint effort," said Diana Arango, director of forensic charity Equitas. |
| New Jolie film puts spotlight on Ethiopia's child bride abductions |
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 By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Ethiopian woman whose terrifying ordeal of kidnap and rape at the hands of her would-be husband inspired Angelina Jolie's new film Difret says she hopes her story will help end the tradition of child bride abductions. Difret, which is released in the United States on Friday, tells the story of Aberash Bekele who was put on trial for murder at the age of 14 after shooting dead her abductor in a case which sent shockwaves through Ethiopia. Bekele, who spent many years in exile after the trial, said she was inspired to speak out by Malala, the Nobel prize-winning girls' rights campaigner.
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| Bomb blast at procession for Shi'ite holiday in Pakistan kills 16 - police |
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| A bomb blast at a Shi'ite Muslim procession in Pakistan's Sindh province for the Shi'ite holiday of Ashura killed 16 people on Friday and wounded at least 40, local Geo TV reported. Geo TV quoted a local police official as saying that 16 were dead and 40 wounded in the early evening blast. |
| U.S. states launch legal challenges to Obama's carbon rules |
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 By Valerie Volcovici and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-three states said they filed a petition with a U.S. appeals court on Friday to block the Obama administration's proposal to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the centerpiece of its high-profile climate change strategy. West Virginia, Texas, Florida and Ohio were among the states challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, saying it pushed the limits of the federal Clean Air Act. "EPA claims to have sweeping power to enact such regulations based on a rarely-used provision of the Clean Air Act but such legal authority simply does not exist," West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said.
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