Swedish opposition lead narrows as elections near: poll
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The Swedish center-left opposition’s lead over the governing coalition has narrowed to 5.0 percentage points ahead of Sept. 14 elections, an opinion poll showed on Monday.
Three Italian nuns murdered in Burundi: officials
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Three Italian nuns were found killed, two of them raped and decapitated, over the weekend in the north of Burundi’s capital, officials and a priest in the African state said on Monday.
Shooting from across Syrian frontier wounds Israeli soldier
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli soldier was wounded on Monday by errant fire from fighting inside neighboring Syria, the Israeli military said.
London’s Luton Airport to re-open after suspicious item destroyed
LONDON (Reuters) – British police said Luton Airport would re-open after they carried out a controlled explosion of a suspicious item which forced the airport to be evacuated on Monday.
EU official: gap with Iran over nuclear program can be narrowed
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Iran is far apart from the six world powers negotiating with it over scaling back its nuclear program, but that gap could be narrowed in talks next week, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Monday.
West widens contacts with Syria’s Kurds but suspicion remains
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The fight against Islamic State could at last win Syria’s Kurds the Western help they have sought, but they must first clarify their relationship to President Bashar al-Assad and reassure Turkey that they won’t cause trouble on its b…
Iran’s Leader Khamenei has successful prostate operation – state media
ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran’s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has successfully undergone prostate surgery, Iranian state media and his website said on Monday, in a rare public report on the state of his health.
African Union troops abused women on Somali bases: rights report
NAIROBI (Reuters) – African Union soldiers in Somalia have raped and sexually exploited women and girls on their peacekeeping bases in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday.
Suspects in Kenya mall attack say tortured in prison: lawyer
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Four men accused of helping al Qaeda-linked militants launch a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall last year have said they were tortured in prison and a state-funded rights body is investigating, a lawyer for two of them said …
Afghanistan’s Abdullah urges calm on Massoud anniversary amid election deadlock
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah urged his supporters to avoid violence on Tuesday’s anniversary of the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, as a bitter feud with his rival over a disputed election showed no sign of res…
