News of the Day From Around the World, Nov. 1
Paris police rounded up Afghan migrants Monday and cleared away some of their tents in a makeshift camp in a new challenge to French government efforts to tackle the migrant crisis.
Wilders, whose tirades against Islam, immigration and the European Union have made him one of the most divisive figures in Dutch politics, denounced the trial as a “travesty” targeting freedom of speech.
3 Mine blast: A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western China on Monday, killing at least 15 miners and trapping 18 others, state media reported said.
Just five months after her party took power, Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is facing international pressure over reports that soldiers have been killing, raping and burning homes of the country’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims.
The U.S. State Department joined activist and aid groups in raising concerns about new reports, while satellite imagery released Monday by Human Rights Watch shows that at least three villages in the western state of Rakhine have been burned.
The presidential election in Moldova will head to a runoff between a pro-Russian figure and a pro-European candidate who both tapped into widespread anger about corruption.
Pope Francis marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on Monday by traveling to largely secular Sweden to pray alongside the country’s Lutheran church leaders in a historic show of unity commemorating the schism in Western Christianity.