Sweden boosts security for asylum seekers after IKEA attack
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Police in central Sweden have increased security at asylum lodgings, fearing a backlash after two Eritrean asylum-seekers were suspected of murdering two people at an IKEA store.
Blast kills around 50 in Nigeria’s Borno state
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A bomb attack on a packed market in northeastern Nigeria bearing the hallmarks of Boko Haram killed around 50 people on Tuesday, sources said.
Turkish air strikes hit 17 Kurdish militant targets, military says
ANKARA/DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – The Turkish military ratcheted up pressure on Kurdish militants with a fresh round of air strikes in the southeast of the country on Tuesday as the insurgents claimed responsibility for the bombing of a police station in I…
Palestinian vigilantes patrol villages amid fear of more arson attacks
QUSRA, West Bank (Reuters) – Armed men stopping cars at checkpoints in the West Bank are usually Israeli security forces policing the occupied territory, but in some areas they are Palestinian civilians patrolling their own villages.
Migrants, police clash on Greek island, mayor warns of bloodshed
KOS, Greece (Reuters) – Greek police used fire extinguishers and batons against migrants on the island of Kos on Tuesday after violence broke out in a sports stadium where hundreds of people, including young children, were waiting for immigration paper…
Some Quebec rivers, lakes may be renamed to drop racial epithet
MONTREAL (Reuters) – As the United States debates public display of the Confederate battle flag, the Canadian province of Quebec is considering changing the names of 11 locations, including lakes and rapids, that contain a racial epithet.
Russia to add new countries to its food import ban list: agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it planned to add new countries to the list of those from which it has banned food imports in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.
Russia says Kiev behind deteriorating situation in east Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow urged Kiev to end its “irresponsible actions” in east Ukraine, a day after the Ukrainian military reported the heaviest shelling by Russian-backed rebels since a truce was agreed in February.
U.S. F-16 jet crashes in southern Germany, pilot ejects
BERLIN (Reuters) – A U.S. F-16 fighter jet crashed in a forest in southern Germany during a training flight on Tuesday but the pilot managed to eject safely, police and U.S. Air Force officials said.
Dutch prosecutors: fragments from MH17 site may be from Russian-made missile
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Some of the debris recovered from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine may be fragments of a Russian-made missile system, Dutch prosecutors leading an international investigation said on Tuesday.
