The prime minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, has announced that he will resign on Thursday over a scandal involving the intelligence services. The government’s junior coalition partner had called for him to take political responsibility for failing to stop the secret service abusing its powers. According to a parliamentary commission, the abuses included the illegal bugging of politicians, the purchase of cars for private use as well as allegations of accepting money for access to local officials.
The head of the UN refugee agency, António Guterres, says plans by Kenya to return the more than 1 million Somali refugees in its soil should follow international standards. He held talks with Kenyan officials on Wednesday and is reported to have proposed a phased repatriation plan starting with support to an estimated 60,000 refugees who’ve returned to Somalia voluntarily.
A judge in Chile has ordered that bone samples from the remains of the Nobel prize winning poet Pablo Neruda should be sent to Spain to determine whether he was poisoned as his driver has maintained for years. Mr Neruda died in 1973 days after a military coup.
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[00:04.15]The head of the railway company, whose run-away train devastated part of a town in the East Canada’s largest province Quebec,