French police extend questioning of suspect after attacks
PARIS (Reuters) – Investigators on Sunday extended into a fifth day the detention of a man arrested on Wednesday outside the building where the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks died, the prosecutor’s office said.
Israeli fatally stabbed, three Palestinian attackers killed in West Bank: police
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli woman was stabbed to death and three Palestinian attackers were killed in a series of incidents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, police said, as an eight-week-old wave of bloodshed showed no signs of dying d…
Iran says Washington Post reporter Rezaian sentenced to prison
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, the state news agency said on Sunday quoting a judiciary spokesman, a case that is a sensitive issue in contentious U.S.-Iranian relations.
Motorcycle bomb explodes in Kurdish-held Syrian town, three dead: monitor
AMMAN (Reuters) – A bomb placed on a motorcycle exploded on Sunday in a Kurdish-held Syrian town along the Turkish border, killing at least three people and wounding 20 others, a monitoring group said.
Erdogan ally takes key position in Turkish parliament
ANKARA (Reuters) – A close ally of President Tayyip Erdogan, who will look to parliament for support to expand the powers of the presidency, was elected assembly speaker on Sunday.
Argentina’s opposition takes on mighty Peronists in run-off vote
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentines voted in a run-off election on Sunday that hands the center-right opposition, led by Mauricio Macri, its best chance in more than a decade to wrest the presidency from the populist Peronists and set the economy on a …
Colombia to free 30 jailed FARC rebels as peace talk gesture
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government said on Sunday it will free 30 jailed members of the Marxist FARC rebel group as a gesture of goodwill as the two sides negotiate an end to more than five decades of war.
Jordan’s King Abdullah to discuss war on Syria militants with Putin
AMMAN (Reuters) – U.S. ally Jordan’s King Abdullah will hold talks in Moscow on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on how to tackle “terror groups” led by Islamic State in Syria, an official source said.
Five dead in Burundi violence, police deny attack on presidency
NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least five people were killed in overnight clashes in Burundi, police said on Sunday, denying residents’ reports of shelling late at night at the president’s office in the capital Bujumbura.
Russia serious about solution in Syria, German minister says
BERLIN (Reuters) – Russia feels increasingly under threat from developments in the Middle East and appears to be serious about cooperating with western countries to resolve the war in Syria, Germany’s foreign minister said on Sunday.
