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.
U.S. wants quarter cut to U.N. Congo troop cap, others warn wrong time
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States wants to cut by a quarter the troop cap for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo, said diplomats, despite warnings by France and others against drastic changes to the world body’s la…
Putin critic Navalny jailed after protests across Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was handed a 15-day jail sentence on Monday for his part in a big anti-government protest in Moscow which buoyed the liberal opposition’s morale a year before a presidential election.
Turks in Germany start voting in referendum to boost Erdogan powers
BERLIN (Reuters) – Turks living in Germany began casting their ballots on Monday in a referendum that proposes changing Turkey’s constitution to increase President Tayyip Erdogan’s powers.
Germany’s ‘Schulz effect’ fails to deliver in first election test
BERLIN (Reuters) – It was the German Social Democrats’ first electoral test under their new leader, Martin Schulz. They failed. Instead, voters in the state of Saarland flocked to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on Sunday for fear of a new lef…
