German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere speaks during a press conference on the migrant crisis on October 28, 2015 in Berlin. AFP
- The German Interior Minister says he will consider giving many Syrian refugees arriving in the country a form of protection that falls short of full asylum and limits their rights as refugees. Nearly 758-thousand refugees most of them Syrians have entered Germany since the beginning of 2015.
- The ongoing strike by Lufthansa’s cabin crew has forced the German airline to cancel 520 flights, grounding 58-thousand passengers. The strikers want the current system of early retirement provisions to remain unchanged. Similar walkouts are planned in the course of the next seven days.
- UK intelligence officials have been quoted as saying the Russian plane may have been brought down by a bomb smuggled on board by someone working at the airport in Sharm el-Sheikh. All 224 people on board died after the airliner crashed over Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
- The British parliament has to consider a debate on a no-confidence vote in the British Prime Minister, as the online petition calling for the debate exceeds the required minimum 100-thousand signatures. The petition accuses David Cameron of causing devastation for the poorest in society.
- The U-N has denounced public statements in Burundi as being aimed at inciting hatred and violence. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric voiced concern over recent discoveries of corpses of civilians who appear to have been summarily executed. He called on the Burundian authorities to protect the civilian population, regardless of their political affiliation.
- UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, O-C-H-A says deadly attacks by the Boko Haram Takfiri terror group have forced the closure of some 150 schools in Niger's southeast. The agency noted that the closed schools have a total of more than 12-thousand-five-hundred students.
- The International Criminal Court urges its prosecutor to reconsider the decision NOT to probe the deadly 2010 Israeli assault on a Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla. Last year, Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda ruled the case wasn't serious enough to merit an I-C-C probe.
- The Yemeni army and allied popular committees have reportedly inflicted casualties on Saudi forces in the kingdom's Jizan region. They also targeted several army posts along the border with Yemen. Yemeni forces’ retaliatory attacks come in response to Saudi Arabia’s months-long aggression against its southern neighbor.
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