Video shows Canada Parliament gunman praying before attack
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Previously unreleased footage of a gunman who fatally shot a soldier in Canada’s capital last October before storming Parliament shows him praying aloud in Arabic.
At U.N., states urged to do more to stop flow of foreign fighters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Interior ministers from members of the United Nations Security Council on Friday voiced concern that some countries were not doing enough to prevent their citizens from traveling abroad and joining militant groups like Islami…
Italian lawmakers target Renzi election candidate over corruption
ROME (Reuters) – The Italian parliament’s anti-mafia committee released the names of 17 local election candidates suspected of graft or organized crime links on Friday — an embarrassment for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi before local elections on Sunday…
Gunmen kill 19 bus passengers in Pakistan attack
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 19 passengers they had forced off buses traveling from the western Pakistani city of Quetta to Karachi on the southern coast, said the home minister for the restive province of Baluchistan, where the …
Fighters battle Houthis in Yemen’s southern city of Aden
ADEN (Reuters) – Heavy fighting erupted in southern Yemen near Aden airport on Friday when local militia attacked Shi’ite Houthi rebels in a push to drive them from the district, residents and fighters said.
Exclusive: U.S. tried Stuxnet-style campaign against North Korea but failed – sources
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons program five years ago but ultimately failed, according to people familiar with the covert campaign.
McCain seeks defense funding to help Asia against China challenges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leading U.S. senator has proposed that the United States provide hundreds of millions of dollars to help train and equip the armed forces of Southeast Asian countries faced with Chinese territorial challenges.
Twin bombs in Nigeria’s Borno state kill seven and injure 12
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – At least seven people died and 12 were injured when twin bomb blasts by suspected Boko Haram militants struck a wedding party in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state on Friday, locals said.
New Nigerian president seeks to crush ‘godless’ Boko Haram
ABUJA (Reuters) – New Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promised on Friday to eradicate the “mindless, godless” militants of Boko Haram and rescue hundreds of women and children held captive, including 200 girls taken from the town of Chibok a year a…
Cameroon food stocks dwindle as Boko Haram violence disrupts farming
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Food shortages threaten some 200,000 people in northern Cameroon after cross-border raids by Islamist sect Boko Haram forced people to flee their homes and fields, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
