Paris /AFP Paris will open its first refugee camp in mid-October, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Tuesday, unveiling plans to take hundreds of people off the streets as France struggles to accommodate migrants. The emergency shelter, which will have an initial capacity of 400 and be solely for men, will be housed on an old railway site in the …

  Warsaw / AFP Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Tuesday that an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had suggested delaying a proposed meeting between the two leaders in Moscow on Friday. “Netanyahu’s representative proposed to delay this meeting to a later date. So the meeting will not happen,” Abbas said at a joint press conference in Warsaw …

  Kabul /AFP Explosions rang out on Tuesday during an hours-long attack on an international charity in Kabul, the latest assault in a wave of violence in the Afghan capital that has killed at least 24 people and wounded dozens. The assault on CARE International began late Monday with a massive car bombing, just hours after the Taliban carried out …