Britain reopens privacy debate after attack, presses tech firms
LONDON (Reuters) – British officials have demanded tech firms do much more to give police access to smartphone communications following last week’s Westminster attack, just months after new laws gave security services broader powers.
At least 11 dead in suicide bombing and gun attack in southern Yemen
ADEN (Reuters) – At least 11 people were killed in a suicide bombing and gun attack by suspected al Qaeda militants on a local government compound in southern Yemen on Monday, a Yemeni government media office said in a statement.
Iran’s Rouhani seeks deals with new friend Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Iran’s president met Russia’s prime minister on Monday in a bid to develop a warming relationship that has been greatly strengthened by both sides’ involvement on the same side of the war in Syria.
Iraqi forces make new push in Mosul Old City: federal police
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi forces said they launched new assaults in Mosul’s Old City on Monday after more than two weeks of only small advances and a high civilian death toll appeared to prompt a change in tactics.
London attacker interested in jihad but no evidence of IS link: police
LONDON (Reuters) – British police said on Monday they had found no evidence that Khalid Masood, who killed four people in an attack on parliament last week, had any association with Islamic State or al Qaeda, but he was clearly interested in jihad.
What is left when Peru’s flood waters recede
CARAPONGO, Peru (Reuters) – On the outskirts of Lima, hundreds of householders salvage scant belongings in what is left of their homes after the Rimac River burst its banks in recent weeks amid Peru’s worst flooding disaster in decades.
Israel’s Netanyahu pledges to work with Trump on peace efforts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he was committed to working with U.S. President Donald Trump to advance peace efforts with the Palestinians and with the broader Arab world.
Islamic State tunnels under al-Bab point to hard fighting ahead
AL-BAB, Syria (Reuters) – Syrian rebels who drove Islamic State from the town of al-Bab in northwest Syria this year discovered an extensive network of tunnels dug by militants as part of their defenses, a tactic that has slowed the military campaign a…
U.S., Britain, France, others skip nuclear weapons ban treaty talks
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States, Britain and France are among almost 40 countries that will not join talks on a nuclear weapons ban treaty starting at the United Nations on Monday, said U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Civilian deaths, Old City fight force Mosul battle rethink
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Perched in bombed-out apartments overlooking west Mosul, Iraqi police snipers have in the last few days advanced to within a few hundred meters of the mosque where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al—Baghdadi declared his caliphate nearly three years ago.
