South African police surrender after caught on camera killing suspect
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African police officers who killed a suspected robber by shooting him in the head as he lay on the ground handed themselves in on Monday after a surveillance video of the act was broadcast, the police said.
Islamist al Shabaab ambushes Somali military trainees, says kills 30
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali Islamists al Shabaab said they had ambushed a group of military trainees on Monday southwest of the capital Mogadishu and killed 30 of them, though the claim could not be independently confirmed.
Lebanese authorities charge Saudi prince with drug smuggling: sources, agency
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese judicial authorities charged a Saudi prince and nine other people with drug smuggling via Beirut airport, and referred the case to an investigating judge, judicial sources and the National News Agency reported on Monday.
Palestinians attack Israeli soldiers, civilians, with knives, one killed: Israel
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Three Palestinians attacked Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank and civilians in the Tel Aviv suburbs with knives on Monday and one of them was shot dead, Israeli authorities said.
Confiscated South African abalone stolen at gunpoint
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Poached abalone confiscated by South African police has been stolen by gunmen in a raid on a state facility where illicit hoards of the marine delicacy were stored, a government ministry said on Monday.
October’s migrant, refugee flow to Europe roughly matched whole of 2014
GENEVA (Reuters) – The number of migrants and refugees entering Europe by sea last month was roughly the same as that for the whole of 2014, United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Monday.
Vatican arrests cleric, laywoman suspected of leaking secret documents
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Two members of a commission Pope Francis set up to study reforms, including a high-ranking Holy See official, have been arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential documents, the Vatican said on Monday.
German attitudes towards migrants are a matter of generation
DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) – On Monday evenings, 25-year-old Nico Rangel regularly joins a protest against the anti-Islam movement PEGIDA in the eastern German city of Dresden. A few blocks away, his mother usually turns out to support PEGIDA.
Fourteen humanitarian workers kidnapped in eastern Congo
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Fourteen humanitarian workers have been kidnapped in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the latest in a spate of hostage-takings in the region, the United Nations and local activists said on Monday.
Kyrgyz PM secures support of new parliament coalition
BISHKEK (Reuters) – Four parties jointly holding a majority in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament agreed on Monday to establish a coalition and back incumbent Prime Minister Temir Sariyev, a move widely expected after the parties’ success in the elections last mo…
