6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesian Moluccas: USGS
LONDON (Reuters) – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck on Monday, around 330 km (205 miles) north-northwest of Indonesia’s Molucca islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Iran seeks to limit diplomatic fall-out from Saudi embassy attacks
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran took steps on Monday to try to limit the diplomatic damage from an attack on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran by an angry mob, laying blame on a top security official and saying some of those who carried out the attack were being…
Bosnia holds four for intending to join Islamic State, seizes weapons
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnian police detained five people on suspicion of planning to join Islamic State and seized a cache of weapons and ammunition in raids in the northwest of the country on Monday, police said. One of the five was later released.
Teenager says attack on Jewish teacher was for Islamic State: prosecutor
PARIS (Reuters) – A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in Marseille on Monday is a Turkish citizen of Kurdish origin who said he acted in the name of the militant Islamist group Islamic State, the prosecutor in the southern French city of Marseille…
EU’s Mogherini: no set date for dropping Iran sanctions, could be soon
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The European Union has no firm timeframe for lifting sanctions on Iran and the move could come soon, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday.
Turkey unsettled by ‘anti-Islamic’ messages in U.S. presidency race: minister
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey is unsettled by “anti-Islamic” messages in the U.S. presidential campaign, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday, citing the 2016 race for the White House that has seen the Republican front-runner advocate a ban on …
North Korea overcomes poverty, sanctions with cut-price nukes
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has developed a nuclear weapons program despite poverty and international sanctions, using home-grown technology and virtually free labor to cut costs, experts said.
Pope says Europe can rise to challenge of integrating migrants
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The migrant crisis engulfing Europe poses a big challenge to Europe’s values and traditions but the continent should be able to integrate the newcomers without undermining the safety of its citizens, Pope Francis said on Monday…
Saudi-led air strike targets Yemen hospital: Saba news agency
CAIRO (Reuters) – A hospital in central Yemen was hit by a Saudi-led coalition air strike on Monday, the state news agency said, a day after aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) reported that a “projectile” had killed four people in one of its clin…
Italy evacuates 15 Libyans wounded in bomb attack
ROME (Reuters) – Italy evacuated 15 Libyans on Monday for medical treatment after they were wounded in last week’s truck bomb attack against a police training center, the Italian government said.
