Philippines foils car-bomb plot at airport, shopping mall
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines on Monday foiled a bid to plant car-bombs at its main airport and a nearby shopping mall, authorities said.
Bosnia police detain 13 Serb ex-soldiers, police suspected of war crimes
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnian police on Monday detained 13 former Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen suspected of taking part in the murder and persecution of hundreds of Bosnian Croats and Muslim Bosniaks early in the country’s 1992-95 war.
Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘open aggression’ as rebels advance
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Monday of “direct and open aggression” which he said had radically changed the battlefield balance as Kiev’s forces suffer major reverses in the war with pro-Moscow separati…
Britain to pass new laws to counter homegrown Islamist fighters
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron will announce new laws on Monday to try to stop radicalized Britons returning from Syria and Iraq launching attacks on British soil, after a video purportedly showed a London-accented man beheading a U.S….
Libyan government says has lost control of most Tripoli ministries
CAIRO (Reuters) – Libya’s government said it has lost control of most ministries and state institutions located in Tripoli after rival armed groups took over the capital.
Islamic State poses global threat, Iraqi minister says
GENEVA (Reuters) – Islamic State has committed barbaric acts against civilians in Iraq, threatening the country’s territorial integrity and posing a global threat, the Iraqi government’s human rights minister said on Monday in an appeal for internation…
Australia leans toward buying Japan subs to upgrade fleet: sources
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan and Australia are leaning towards a multibillion-dollar sale by Tokyo of a fleet of stealth submarines to Canberra’s military in a move that could rile an increasingly assertive China, people familiar with the talks said.
South Africa’s Zuma leads talks on Lesotho political crisis
MASERU (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma was due to meet Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane on Monday to try to resolve a political crisis in the small mountain kingdom after an apparent coup there over the weekend, a government spok…
Disruptive Hong Kong protests loom after China rules out democracy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police used pepper spray to disperse pro-democracy activists on Monday as the Asian financial center braces for a wave of disruptive protests against China’s decision to rule out full democracy.
Three children stabbed to death in Chinese school
BEIJING (Reuters) – A man with a knife killed three children and injured several in a primary school in China on Monday, the first day of a new school term after the summer holiday, state media said.
