UK’s Cameron resists calls for air strikes despite hostage killing
LONDON/EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Britain resisted pressure on Sunday to join the United States in announcing air strikes against Islamic State after the militant group beheaded David Haines, a British hostage, and threatened to kill another Briton.
Al Qaeda denies decline, acknowledges ‘mistakes’ by its branches
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda dismissed as “lies” a U.S. assessment that it is in decline, but a defiant online message issued by the network on Sunday made no mention of the ultra-hardline Islamic State group widely seen as its rival for the leadership of glob…
Post-war counseling awaits Gaza children going back to school
GAZA (Reuters) – Some 500,000 children returned on Sunday to school in the Gaza Strip, where many will be given psychological counseling before regular studies begin after a devastating 50-day war between Palestinian militants and Israel.
Kerry says some nations offer ground troops to fight Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was “extremely encouraged” by pledges of military assistance against Islamic State militants by countries inside and outside the Middle East and that some nations had offered ground troo…
Deaths from Nigeria church guest house collapse rise to 41
LAGOS (Reuters) – The number of people killed in the collapse of a guest house under construction at the Lagos headquarters of one of Nigeria’s best-known Christian evangelical pastors rose to 41 on Sunday, rescuers said, as they worked to clear the wr…
North Korea sentences U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller to six years hard labor
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller to six years hard labor for committing “hostile acts” as a tourist to the country, a statement carried by state media said on Sunday.
A week on from flood, 150,000 still stranded in Indian Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – About 150,000 people were still stranded in their homes a week after Indian Kashmir’s worst flood in over a century and fears grew on Sunday of an outbreak of diseases from vast fields of stagnant brown water.
Fresh sanctions will freeze big foreign oil projects in Russia
By Olesya Astakhova, Katya Golubkova and Vladimir Soldatkin
EU legal fog lets Scots bank on politics to keep them in
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – If Scots vote for independence, it will be in part because they believe assurances that their small Atlantic peninsula can quit the United Kingdom without ever leaving the secure embrace of the European Union.
Islamic State attracts female jihadis from U.S. heartland
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement is investigating a new phenomenon of women from the American heartland joining Islamic State as President Barack Obama vows to cut off the militants’ recruiting at home.
