China’s Xi calls for tighter ideological control in universities
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for greater “ideological guidance” in China’s universities and urged the study of Marxism, state media reported on Monday, as the country tightens control on Western ideology.
U.N. reopens Nile route to bring aid to hunger-hit South Sudan
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Monday it had begun delivering food aid to war-torn South Sudan via the Nile River from Sudan for the first time since it became independent in 2011, warning the country could face a “hunger catastrophe”.
UK’s royal palace guards moved behind gates on attack fears: media
LONDON (Reuters) – The soldiers who stand guard outside Britain’s royal palaces have been moved behind metal fences because of fears of a terror attack, local newspapers reported on Monday.
Bomber kills 11 Shi’ite pilgrims north of Baghdad: police
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 11 people and wounded 23 others when he detonated explosives in a crowd of Shi’ite pilgrims walking north of Baghdad to the shrine city of Samarra, police and medical officials said.
Three Iranian Revolutionary Guards killed near Pakistan border
DUBAI (Reuters) – Three members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), sent to reinforce border police, were killed in an attack in the southeast of Iran near Pakistan, according to Iranian media reports on Monday.
Cameroon says fights off Boko Haram attacks, kills 41 militants
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon’s army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said.
Lebanese army disperses youths protesting near border town
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese soldiers fired into the air to disperse a protest on Monday against security measures near a town close to the Syrian border, a security source and the state news agency reported.
Special Report: Their nation in pieces, Iraqis ponder what comes next
SALAHUDDIN PROVINCE, Iraq (Reuters) – The machine gun poking out from between a framed portrait of a Shi’ite imam and a stuffed toy Minnie Mouse was trained on anyone who approached the checkpoint.
Ukraine’s parliament approves 2015 budget
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament backed a budget for 2015 on Monday that it had been under pressure to approve to secure the next tranche of financial aid under a $17 billion International Monetary Fund loan package, the Interfax news agency repor…
Obama: Iran has ‘chance to get right with the world’ – NPR
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran could become a “very successful regional power” if Tehran agrees to a long-term deal to curb its nuclear program, President Barack Obama said in an interview with NPR News.
