German leaders regret terror threat curbs PEGIDA’s right to protest
BERLIN (Reuters) – German political leaders said it was regrettable that a terror threat had led to the cancellation of a planned march by the anti-Islam movement PEGIDA in Dresden on Monday night, regardless of how one views the group itself.
Ex-Swiss banker found guilty in WikiLeaks trial, avoids jail
ZURICH (Reuters) – A former Julius Baer banker found guilty on Monday of breaching Swiss banking secrecy laws by handing over data about offshore clients to WikiLeaks will avoid jail time.
France’s Hollande gets poll rebound after attacks, FN flat
PARIS (Reuters) – President Francois Hollande saw a spectacular revival in his dismal popularity ratings on Monday as two major surveys showed French voters applauding his handling of the country’s most deadly Islamist attacks.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard general killed in Israeli Syria raid: news site
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian Revolutionary Guard general was killed along with a number of fighters from the Lebanese Shi’ite Hezbollah group in an Israeli air strike in Syria, an Iranian news website said on Monday.
Cameroon frees 24 hostages after suspected Boko Haram kidnapping
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon’s army has freed 24 of some 80 hostages kidnapped during a cross-border attack by suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters based in neighboring Nigeria, a defense ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Indonesia says no evidence so far of terrorism in AirAsia crash
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian investigators said on Monday they had found no evidence so far that terrorism played a part in the crash of an AirAsia passenger jet last month that killed all 162 people on board.
Erdogan chairs Turkish cabinet meeting, pushing presidential powers
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Tayyip Erdogan became the first Turkish president to chair a cabinet meeting in more than a decade on Monday, furthering his drive for a stronger presidency and fuelling concern among critics that he is accumulating too much…
Threats of jail, walkout put Cambodia truce on shaky ground
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen took a swipe at the country’s opposition on Monday and threatened its lawmakers with jail, accusing it of breaching terms of a political truce that now looks increasingly precarious.
China protests over Japan’s comments on border dispute with India
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Monday lodged a protest with Tokyo after Japanese media quoted Japan’s foreign minister as saying that a disputed border region between China and India belonged to India, in the latest source of friction between the two Asi…
European Union looks to respond to threat of radical Islam
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU foreign ministers pledged on Monday to counter radical Muslims returning from Syria and Iraq with a better strategy at home and abroad, but ruled out sweeping new laws in the wake of the Jan. 7 Paris attacks.
