French beheading suspect denies jihad motivation
PARIS (Reuters) – The man being held in France under suspicion of beheading his boss and trying to blow up a chemicals plant has told investigators there was no religious motivation behind the attack, a source close to the inquiry said on Monday.
U.N. chief deplores coalition airstrike on U.N. compound in Yemen
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored on Monday an Arab coalition air strike in Yemen that seriously damaged a U.N. Development Programme office and injured a guard, calling for a full investigation into the i…
Pakistan police kill four suspected Taliban militants in Punjab: officials
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani police and intelligence officials shot and killed three suspected Islamist militants in a raid on their hideout in eastern Pakistan early on Monday and a fourth blew himself up, police and intelligence officials s…
Rights group doubts captured Russian soldier had quit army
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A soldiers’ rights group cast doubt on Monday on denials by military prosecutors in Moscow that a Russian serviceman was on active duty when captured fighting in Ukraine.
Kuwait attack shows Gulf vulnerability to Islamic State
KUWAIT (Reuters) – By sending a Saudi Arabian suicide bomber to Kuwait and recruiting local members of a stateless underclass to help him attack a Shi’ite Muslim mosque, an Islamic State cell struck at the Gulf Arab monarchy’s most potent internal divi…
Ferry workers block Calais port again in dispute
LILLE (Reuters) – Employees of a ferry service recently sold by Eurotunnel renewed a blockade of the northern French port of Calais on Monday after a court rejected their bid to extend the service’s charter contract with Eurotunnel.
AeroMexico Dreamliner makes emergency landing in Ireland
DUBLIN (Reuters) – A Boeing 787 Dreamliner en route from Mexico City to Paris made an emergency landing at Ireland’s Shannon Airport on Monday and all 193 people on board disembarked safely, a spokesman for the airport said on Monday.
Burundi votes in boycott-hit poll; gunfire heard
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Burundians voted for a new parliament on Monday after a night of sporadic blasts and gunshots and weeks of violent protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s attempt to win a third term in office.
Syrian insurgents carve out fiefdoms in de-facto partition
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Four years into a war that has killed more than 220,000 people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can no longer defend the whole country or hope to regain lost territory and his forces are retreating and fortifying their core strongho…
Two Uber executives taken into police custody in France
PARIS (Reuters) – French police have brought in two executives from U.S. technology company Uber for questioning as the government clamp down on the taxi and ride-sharing service intensifies, said a person from the prosecutor’s office.
