Canada urges vigilance after online video calls for attacks
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s public safety minister on Sunday urged the country be vigilant after the release of an online video in which a man believed to be a Canadian fighting for the Islamic State called on Canadian Muslims to carry out lone wolf a…
Afghan students find inspiration in Islamic State’s success
Kabul (Reuters) – A quiet student at Kabul University, 25-year-old Abdul Rahim has a dream: to join Islamic State in Syria and fight for the establishment of a global caliphate – a new, alarming form of radicalism in war-weary Afghanistan.
Liberia court suspends ban on mass gatherings in Monrovia
MONROVIA (Reuters) – Liberia’s top court issued a stay on a government order banning public gatherings in the capital ahead of Senate elections next week that was imposed because electioneering risks spreading Ebola, Information Minister Lewis Brown sa…
Mexico says evidence proves missing students were burned up
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities on Sunday said that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers who were abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members.
Italy and France hit back at Merkel over economic reforms call
BERLIN (Reuters) – Italy and France expressed irritation on Sunday with a call from Chancellor Angela Merkel for them to do more to bring their budgets into line with EU rules, telling the German leader to focus on her own economic woes instead of lect…
Seventy Ethiopian migrants drown off Red Sea coast of Yemen
SANAA (Reuters) – At least 70 Ethiopians drowned when a boat used by smugglers to transport illegal migrants to Yemen sank in the Red Sea in rough weather, security authorities in the western part of the country said on Sunday.
U.S. hands Pakistan senior militant detained in Afghanistan
KABUL/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – The United States has handed to Pakistan three prisoners including a senior Taliban militant held in Afghanistan, as Washington rushes to empty its Afghan prison before losing the legal right to detain peopl…
Israel strikes near the Syrian capital: Syrian TV
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian state television said on Sunday that Israeli jets had bombed areas near Damascus international airport and in the town of Dimas, near the border with Lebanon.
Leave or let live? Arabs move in to Jewish settlements
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Little noticed amid the furor over one of Israel’s most contentious policies, a small but growing number of Arabs are moving into Jewish settlements on occupied land in East Jerusalem, drawn by cheaper rent and better services.
Majority of Germans want Merkel to run for fourth term: poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – A majority of Germans want Angela Merkel to run for a fourth term as Chancellor and nearly three in four believe she would like to remain in office beyond 2017, when her current term ends, a new poll shows.
