ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has appointed its first ambassador to Eritrea in two decades in the latest sign of rapprochement after a border war, the state-affiliated Fana news agency said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has proposed an expedited schedule for an appeal of a judge's ruling that allowed AT&T Inc to buy movie and TV show maker Time Warner, according to a court filing on Wednesday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of pages of U.S. intelligence documents on Nelson Mandela were made public on Wednesday, revealing that Washington continued to monitor the South African anti-apartheid hero as a potential Communist menace even after he was released from prison, a group that sued to obtain the papers said.

ON BOARD THE OPEN ARMS, Mediterranean, July 18 (Reuters) - A sea rescue charity is taking a lone survivor and the bodies of two dead migrants found at sea to Spain, it said on Wednesday, after clashing with Italy over what should be done with them.

CAIRO (Reuters) - President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told Italy's visiting interior minister on Wednesday that Egypt was determined to conclude an investigation into the 2016 murder of an Italian student and bring his killers to justice, the presidential palace said.

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (Reuters) - Gary Player has a hunch it will be Rickie Fowler's week at the British Open but his "big wish" is for Tiger Woods to end a 10-year major drought by holding aloft the Claret Jug for the fourth time.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday appointed a minister responsible for border-crossing asylum seekers, tens of thousands of whom have walked across the border since early 2017, as his government comes under fire for not taking the issue seriously.

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, July 18 (Reuters) - Gary Player has a hunch it will be Rickie Fowler's week at the British Open but his "big wish" is for Tiger Woods to end a 10-year major drought by holding aloft the Claret Jug for the fourth time.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok defended himself on Wednesday after coming under fire for saying multi-cultural societies could never be peaceful, and former colony Suriname was a "failed state" because of its diverse ethnic makeup.