Kuwait detains 26 over Islamic State suicide attack on mosque: newspaper
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait has detained 26 people suspected of involvement in a suicide bombing on a Shi’ite Muslim mosque last month that killed 27 people, a local newspaper reported on Monday, quoting the public prosecutor.
Nobel laureates urge donors to boost education funds ahead of global meet
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – International donors must boost aid to developing nations to ensure that millions of the world’s poorest and marginalized children can go to school, a group of Nobel laureates said on Monday, ahead of a global c…
Ukraine launches Western-style police force to set a marker for reform
KIEV (Reuters) – The first 2,000 recruits of a new Ukrainian police force passed out in the capital Kiev at the weekend, intended by the government as a visible sign of its commitment to shake off a deep-rooted culture of corruption in public instituti…
BRICS summit gives Putin a chance to show Russia not isolated
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The BRICS emerging economies will launch a development bank at a summit this week which President Vladimir Putin hopes will help reduce Western dominance of world financial institutions and show Moscow is not isolated.
MP tells anti-gay rally: Obama should not push gay agenda in Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Dozens of Kenyans rallied in Nairobi on Monday against homosexuality and a lawmaker said U.S. President Barack Obama should not push a pro-gay agenda when he visits the country later this month.
Iraqi jet mistakenly bombs Baghdad district, five killed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An Iraqi plane accidentally dropped a bomb on an eastern Baghdad neighborhood on Monday, police and residents said, killing at least five people and destroying several houses.
Quake of 6.2 magnitude hits near Tonga: USGS
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck east-northeast of the capital of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Islamic State target Iraq’s Haditha town with vehicle bombs
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An Islamic State militant blew up an explosive-laden bulldozer near Haditha, killing seven Iraqi soldiers in one of a wave of bomb attacks on the northwestern town on Monday, a police source said.
Islamist group Ansar Dine claims multiple attacks in Mali
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) – The Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine claimed it carried out a series of attacks against U.N. peacekeepers and Malian army targets in the country’s capital, Bamako, and border areas near Ivory Coast and Mauritania.
Pakistani gunmen kill three in attack blamed on Islamist groups
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen riding motorcycles on Monday opened fire outside a passport office in southwestern Pakistan, killing three people, including a police officer, in an attack police blamed on radical Islamist groups.
