Rwanda opposition party to sit out vote after late registration
KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwanda’s Democratic Green Party said on Monday it will sit out September’s parliamentary election after the electoral commission took three years to register it, finally doing so just days before the deadline.
Deadly Iraq bombings target cafe, school and playground
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 16 people were killed and 41 wounded on Monday in a suicide bomb attack on a crowded cafe in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, part of the worst wave of violence in Iraq in around five years.
Peru says top two Shining Path rebels killed in jungle shootout
LIMA (Reuters) – The Shining Path rebel group’s top two fighters are believed to have been killed in a shootout with Peruvian security forces in a drug-trafficking region of the jungle late on Sunday, President Ollanta Humala said on Monday.
Britain weighs legal action against Spain on Gibraltar
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain warned Spain on Monday it might take legal action to try to force Madrid to abandon tighter controls at the border with the contested British overseas territory of Gibraltar in what it called an “unprecedented” step against a…
Tunisia bombs Islamist militants in mountain hideouts
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia on Monday carried out air strikes on Islamist militants holed up in the Mount Chaambi area near the Algerian border, an army source said, stepping up a campaign against radical jihadis under pressure from the secular oppositio…
Turkish PM’s office denies reports Erdogan was hospitalized
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s office denied on Monday reports he had been hospitalized for a stomach condition in the past week, dismissing what it called “baseless allegations”.
Suicide bomber in Iraqi town of Balad kills eight: medics
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Eight people were killed and 25 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on Monday on a cafe in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, medical sources said.
German ministers say Russian gay law smacks of dictatorship
BERLIN (Reuters) – Two German cabinet ministers have added to criticism of Russia’s anti-“gay propaganda” law, saying President Vladimir Putin appeared to be leading his country into a “flawless dictatorship”.
Russian opposition leader faces accusations of foreign funding
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian prosecutors accused opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday of illegally receiving foreign funding for his campaign to oust an ally of President Vladimir Putin as Moscow mayor in an election next month.
Libyan strikes shut oil terminals again, hit new fields
TRIPOLI/LONDON (Reuters) – Striking security guards reimposed a two-week-old shutdown at Libya’s two biggest crude export terminals on Monday, hours after they had reopened, and more oilfields closed in a wave of protest that is propping up world oil p…
