Arson at Brussels criminology institute, no casualties
BRUSSELS Arsonists set fire to Belgium's National Institute of Criminology in Brussels on Monday, causing an explosion but no casualties, a Brussels prosecutor said.Ine Van Wymersch said there were no immediate indications that the fire at the institute, which was empty at the time, was a militant attack although nothing had been ruled out. Europe has been on high alert after Islamic State attacks in Paris and Brussels over the past year."It was arson, deliberate arson at the laboratory of the..>> view originalRussia's 'most powerful weapon'
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By Matthew Lee | AP August 29 at 4:39 AM DHAKA, Bangladesh — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s is in Bangladesh for security and human rights talks amid increasing concern about terrorism in the South Asian nation in the wake of a series of extremist attacks. Kerry, on his first trip to Bangladesh as America’s top diplomat, met in Dhaka on Monday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister Abul Hassam Mahmood Ali and was later to see opposition officials and talk to students. B..>> view originalIn Syria, Rebels Threaten Kurdish-Controlled Territory as US Allies Clash
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SANAA, Yemen — A suicide attacker set off a massive car bomb in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Monday, killing at least 45 pro-government troops who had been preparing to travel to Saudi Arabia to fight Houthi rebels in Yemen's north, officials said.The men were at a staging area near two schools and a mosque where they were registering to join the expedition. The Saudis hope to train up to 5,000 fighters and deploy them to the Saudi cities of Najran and Jizan, near the border, Yemeni secu..>> view originalAustralian aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan freed
SYDNEY/KABUL An Australian aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan four months ago was freed following a raid by Afghan special forces near the eastern city of Jalalabad, officials said on Monday.Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop confirmed in a statement that Kerry Jane Wilson, who was taken by two armed men from the offices of a charity in Jalalabad in April, had been freed and was "safe and well".A spokesman for Australia's foreign ministry declined to provide details but Afghanistan's Na..>> view originalSingapore mass sprays residences as Zika expected to spread
SINGAPORE Officials sprayed insecticide and cleared drains of stagnant water in residential areas of Singapore at high risk of further Zika infections on Monday after 41 locally transmitted cases were confirmed in the city state.Workers wearing fumigation masks traveled methodically through high-rise public housing estates in seven separate areas of the island, inspecting plant pots closely as they sprayed insecticide via thermal fogging machines. The health ministry on Saturday confirmed Sing..>> view originalIndonesian church attacker 'obsessed' with Islamic State leader - senior m...
JAKARTA A knife-wielding Indonesian teen who tried to attack a priest at a church during a Sunday service was "obsessed" with extremist group Islamic State, a senior minister said on Monday. Indonesian authorities are increasingly worried about a resurgence in radicalism in the world's largest Muslim-majority country, driven in part by a new generation of jihadis inspired by Islamic State (IS)."From the cellphone that was seized by security forces, this youth was obsessed with Abu Bakr al-Bag..>> view originalIndian Officials Lift Curfew From Most of Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India — Authorities on Monday lifted a curfew imposed in most parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir as part of a 52-day security lockdown, although most shops and businesses remained closed due to an ongoing strike called to protest Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region.Government forces on Monday removed steel barricades and coils of barbed wire from the roads across the region, but officials said the curfew would continue in some parts of the old quarters of Kashmir's main ci..>> view original
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