BUDAPEST -- German police say a total of 12,200 migrants came to Munich on Saturday and the flow is continuing into the city, the main point of entry to Germany.Federal police spokesman Simon Hegewald said more than 700 people fleeing their homelands have arrived at the city's main station on Sunday morning. Police didn't immediately have an estimate of how many more might land during the day.Officials in Munich were putting up tents but say their capacity to house the newcomers arriving from Hu

JERUSALEM -- Israeli police briefly clashed with Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site early Sunday, raising tensions in the holy city ahead of the Jewish New Year.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said forces moved into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound at around 7 a.m. Sunday after police received reports that protesters were planning to disrupt visits to the area by Jewish worshippers and tourists.He said the protesters barricaded themselves inside the mosque and threw rocks

AL-ABER, Yemen -- Forces loyal to Yemen's exiled president, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, launched a major ground offensive against Iran-backed rebels east of the capital Sanaa on Sunday, a military official said."This is the largest and fiercest offensive since operations began in Marib province," the official told AFP.Fighters loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi have attacked the rebels in two areas -- Jufeinah and Faw -- that lie on the route leading to rebel-held Sanaa, he said.Most

ANGELS CAMP, California -- Thousands of people rushed to escape one massive wildfire charging across California's tinder-dry Sierra Nevada foothills and another out-of-control fire that broke out in Northern California, sending four firefighters to the hospital with burns.The northern fire began in Lake County, 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of San Francisco, and grew to about 15 square miles (39 square kilometers) in just a few hours, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

South Korea's labor, management and government representatives on Sunday agreed to ease labor restrictions after months of tense negotiations.   Under the agreement, labor and management would consult experts on ways to overhaul employment contracts, the tripartite committee said. The committee is comprised of a representative each from the Federation of Korea Trade Unions (FKTU), the Korea Employers' Federation and the Ministry of Employment and Labor.   Until then, laws and legal precedents wo

The government plans to halve the pay hike rate of public corporations and institutions that fail to introduce the wage peak system by the end of this year, officials said Thursday.Under the plan, if the pay increases for both public servants and quasi-public servants is set at 3.4 percent next year, the rate for employees of the agencies delaying or declining to adopt the wage peak system would stay at 1.7 percent. The officials said the Steering Committee on Public Institution will decide the

An increasing number of households in Korea are burdened with high-interest loans from secondary financial firms, central bank data showed Sunday.As a result, concerns are escalating over the possibility that the recent surge in the second-tier loans may increase the number of loan delinquents in the coming years and dent the economy.According to the Bank of Korea, the credit based-loans from the secondary sector -- such as mutual savings banks and capital services firms -- increased by about 5

The nation’s gross national income posted minus growth in the second quarter of the year, dropping 0.1 percent from the previous quarter, data from the Bank of Korea showed Thursday. This is the first time in 4 1/2 years that the country marked negative GNI growth on a quarter-to-quarter basis, after the index fell below zero to -1.9 percent during the fourth quarter of 2010.The GNI refers to the total domestic and foreign output claimed by residents of a country, including their salaries, finan