U.N. chief to visit North Korea this week: Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit North Korea’s capital Pyongyang this week, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Monday, quoting a U.N. source, in what could be a rare diplomatic opening by the isolated state.
France launches air strikes in Syria; Paris investigation widens
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria on Sunday as police in Europe widened their investigations into coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people.
Niger election committee admits to errors in voter lists
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger’s election committee on Sunday admitted to errors in its electoral lists three months before a presidential election, confirming earlier complaints made by the opposition.
UK’s Cameron to urge Putin to focus fight in Syria on Islamic State
BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he will urge President Vladimir Putin on Monday to focus Russian air strikes in Syria on Islamic State militants.
Islamic State takes war to its foes after battlefield setbacks
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Facing military setbacks in its self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq and intensified air strikes from a US-led coalition, Islamic State may have decided in September to take the fight to France and elsewhere.
French warplanes strike Islamic State Syria bastion
PARIS (Reuters) – French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date targeting the Islamic State’s stronghold in Raqqa just two days after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, the defense minis…
Obama urges Russia to join renewed effort to eliminate Islamic State
BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to step up efforts to eliminate Islamic State and prevent more attacks like those in Paris, while urging Russia’s Vladimir Putin to focus on combating the jihadist group in Syria.
Partying on a Friday, many Paris victims were bright young things
PARIS (Reuters) – Standing before a makeshift memorial to the dead, strewn with candles, flowers and scribbled notes, Caroline Pallut hid her tears behind dark glasses.
Lutherans, Catholics, should seek pardon for past persecutions, pope says
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis, in a visit to Rome’s Lutheran church on Sunday, said both sides, Catholics and Lutherans, should seek forgiveness for past persecutions.
From small French town to Syria: the journey of a Western jihadi
CAIRO (Reuters) – An online profile of one of the men in a video posted by Islamic State after mass shootings and suicide bombings in Paris shows how hard it is to predict where the next threat will emerge.
