Gunmen kill eight police in Cairo suburb, Islamic State claims attack
CAIRO (Reuters) – Gunmen killed eight plainclothes police on the southern outskirts of Cairo overnight, the Egyptian interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by Islamic State militants.
Saudi soldier killed in gunbattle with militants: SPA
DUBAI (Reuters) – A Saudi soldier died in a gunbattle with militants in the western Taif region outside Mecca on Sunday, state news agency SPA said.
Turkish shelling kills 55 Islamic State militants in northern Syria: military sources
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish shelling killed 55 Islamic State insurgents in northern Syria on Saturday evening, military sources said, in retaliation for weeks of rocket attacks on a Turkish border town.
Afghanistan executes six prisoners in anti-Taliban crackdown
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan hanged six prisoners convicted of terrorism offences, as President Ashraf Ghani carried out a threat to approve executions as part of a tougher new policy toward the Taliban.
Chile will send Congress key parts of labor bill after court snub
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s government said on Saturday it will veto the parts of President Michelle Bachelet’s landmark labor reform that a top court had ruled were unconstitutional, sending them back to Congress for discussion, reviving her cornerst…
Former British spy bosses say nation’s exit from EU would pose threat
LONDON (Reuters) – A British vote to leave the European Union next month could make the country more vulnerable to militant attacks and cause instability across the continent, two former senior British intelligence officials said.
Brazil meat packer JBS denies making undeclared payments for Rousseff campaign
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – JBS SA, the world’s largest beef producer, denied a Saturday newspaper report that it had made illegal payments for President Dilma Rousseff’s 2014 reelection campaign.
Three Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria freed
MADRID (Reuters) – Three Spanish freelance journalists who went missing in Syria last year and were believed to have been kidnapped have been released, the Spanish government said on Saturday.
Mexican drug boss ‘Chapo’ moved to jail on U.S. border
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was moved on Saturday from a jail in central Mexico to a prison in Ciudad Juarez, a northern city on the U.S. border, in a move that appears to bring him closer to extradition to the U…
U.N. urges judiciary reforms in Sri Lanka to avoid delay in justice
COLOMBO (Reuters) – United Nations human rights experts on Saturday urged Sri Lanka, which is under scrutiny for its human rights record during the 26-year Tamil insurgency, to implement judicial reforms to speed up prosecutions.
