News of the Day From Around the World, June 14

Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged heavy gunfire Sunday and Monday in a serious escalation of tensions at the border, leaving at least 13 people wounded on the Pakistani side and killing at least one Afghan police officer, according to officials in both countries.

Ghuncha Gul, a Pakistani official in the region, said the Afghan side started shooting late Sunday when construction work began on a new gate on the Pakistani side.

[...] Gen. Zarawar Zahid, police chief of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, said Pakistani forces opened fire after the Afghans asked them to stop work at the gate, which he claimed is located on disputed land.

France’s Senate started debating a contested labor reform on Monday as rail and air strikes continued to disrupt traffic.

Riot police were deployed as 1,065 Syrians and 58 Iraqis were ordered out of a camp and moved by bus to a shelter near the city of Thessaloniki.

The detained volunteers — who had been helping migrants with food distribution and other basic needs — were all released without charge following identification checks at a police station, authorities said.

4 Rape controversy: A Dutch woman held in Qatar for nearly three months after telling police she had been raped there was released on Monday after receiving a one-year suspended prison sentence, a Dutch diplomat said.