UK close to identifying Briton suspected of beheading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Britain is close to identifying a man, thought to be British, who was shown beheading U.S. journalist James Foley in a video released by the Islamic State militant group last week, its ambassador to the United States, Peter Westm…
Car bomb in Shi’ite area of Baghdad kills seven: police
BAGHDAD 24 (Reuters) – A car bomb killed seven people on Sunday in a mostly Shi’ite area of Baghdad, police and medical sources said.
India, Pakistan intensify cross-border firing as ties sour
SRINAGAR India (Reuters) – Indian and Pakistani troops intensified firing across the border over the weekend killing at least four, an Indian official said on Sunday, straining ties between the arch rivals who recently called off top-level diplomatic t…
Italy finds 19 boat migrants dead, saves over 3,500 since Friday: navy
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s maritime search and rescue service saved 3,500 migrants and found 19 corpses in the Mediterranean since Friday as thousands attempted to cross to Europe by boat over the weekend, the Italian navy said.
More than 250 migrants may have died in shipwreck off Libya
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – More than 250 migrants may have died when a boat sank a kilometer (half a mile) off the Libyan coast, a coastguard official said on Sunday.
Turkey’s Erdogan seen softening style not substance as president
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Tayyip Erdogan’s caustic rhetoric has won him the devotion of Turkey’s conservative Islamic heartlands, from his dismissal of political enemies as “worse than leeches” to his comparisons of Israel’s actions in Gaza to those of Hitl…
Talks on new Yemeni government collapse over Shi’ite Houthi subsidy demands
SANAA (Reuters) – Talks on forming a new Yemeni government collapsed on Sunday over demands by Shi’ite Muslim Houthis to restore fuel subsidies cut by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, officials said, and further demonstrations in the capital Sanaa wer…
German hostage freed by Islamic State in Syria in June: die Welt am Sonntag paper
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German man held hostage for about a year in Syria by fighters of Islamic State was released in June after the government did a deal with the militant group, die Welt am Sonntag newspaper said on Sunday.
France’s leaders sink in polls amid calls for change of course
PARIS (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls saw his approval rating drop to a new low of 36 percent this month, while Francois Hollande remained the most unpopular president in more than half a century, an Ifop poll showed on Sunday.
Spanish helicopter crash kills three civil guards in mountain rescue
MADRID (Reuters) – Three Spanish civil guards died on Sunday when their helicopter crashed in the northwestern province of Leon as they tried to rescue a mountain climber, a spokesman for the local government said.
