Pentagon announces single largest transfer of Guantanamo inmates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials said on Monday 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama’s administration.
Venezuelan President’s approval rating falls to nine-month low
CARACAS (Reuters) – – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s approval rating fell to a nine-month low of 21.2 percent in July amid calls from government critics for a recall referendum next year, according to a local pollster Datanalisis.
Kurdish forces open new front on Islamic State capital Mosul
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Monday said they had secured a river crossing point enabling them to open a new front against Islamic State and further tighten their grip on the militants’ capital Mosul.
Canada will not reopen bomb analysis center closed in April
TORONTO (Reuters) – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Monday it will not reopen its bomb analysis center that was closed in April, rejecting a call to do so from a national law enforcement advocacy group that warned of a growing “threat …
Man shot by police after opening fire in Belgian city Ghent: media
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An unidentified man opened fire in the center of the Belgian city of Ghent on Monday before being shot by police, local media reported.
‘We owe you so much,’ Kosovo to tell Biden as street named after late son
SOJEVE, Kosovo (Reuters) – On a busy road in Kosovo, brand new signs have been put up ahead of a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, showing the 35-km route in the southeast of the small Balkan nation that has been renamed after his late son Beau.
Six people killed in PKK car bombing in Turkey’s southeast: deputy PM
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A car bomb killed six people including four police officers and a child outside a police station in southeastern Turkey on Monday, according to senior government officials who blamed the attack on Kurdish militants.
Bangladesh police name third prime suspect in July cafe attack
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladeshi authorities named a third prime suspect on Monday in their investigation into the July 1 attack at a Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were killed, most of them foreigners.
Zambian president Lungu re-elected in disputed vote
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu narrowly won re-election on Monday in a vote his main rival said was rigged.
Turkish police raid Istanbul courthouses, more officers detained
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police raided the country’s biggest courthouse and two other halls of justice in Istanbul on Monday, detaining dozens of judicial personnel as part of their investigation into last month’s attempted military coup.
