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| Sister of slain Pakistani woman says her husband killed her | |  Police and witnesses said Farzana Iqbal, 25, was murdered by assailants including her own father outside a court building on Tuesday because she had married a man of her own choosing, Muhammed Iqbal, instead of a cousin they had selected for her. But on Saturday, Farzana's elder sister said it was Iqbal who had killed her. "Muhammed Iqbal and his accomplices killed Farzana, and her father and the rest of her family were wrongly accused of murder," Khalida Bibi told reporters in the city of Lahore. Iqbal and his accomplices chased her and hit her with bricks." Iqbal says they married for love in January.
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| Jewish museum shooting suspect spent year in Syria - prosecutor | |  The 29-year-old Frenchman arrested on Friday over the fatal shooting of three people at Brussels' Jewish Museum spent a year in Syria after becoming radicalised during the last of five stays in jail in France, a prosecutor said on Sunday. When he was arrested in the southern France city of Marseille, Mehdi Nemmouche was carrying in his luggage weapons and clothes similar to those used in the shooting last weekend, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told a news conference, saying there was a "strong body of evidence" tying him to the killings. "On Dec. 31, 2012, three weeks after he was freed, he travelled to Syria." "He spent over a year in Syria, where he seems to have joined the ranks of combatant groups, jihadist terrorist groups." Nemmouche is being held on charges of murder, attempted murder and possession of weapons, all of which in the framework of a terrorist activity, Molins said.
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| More foreign fighters break cover among Ukraine separatists | |  By Gabriela Baczynska DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - In flak jackets and mismatched camouflage fatigues, men from eastern Ukraine, Russia and Ossetia cleaned their weapons side by side in a former Ukrainian army base, now the headquarters of a separatist militia in the city of Donetsk. Battalion Vostok - or the East Battalion - is a heavily armed, well-organised fighting group that has burst onto the scene in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east and appears to be seeking to lead the fight to prise the region from Kiev and merge it with Russia.
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| Bombings threaten Kenya growth goals, open new strains with wary West | |  By James Macharia NAIROBI (Reuters) - Recent bombings in Kenya have dented President Uhuru Kenyatta's plans to boost tourism and undermined his pledge to restore security after last year's Westgate shopping mall attack. Travel warnings issued by the United States, Britain, France and Australia last month have sent their citizens packing, emptying Kenya's palm-fringed beaches and forcing hotels to lay off staff. On taking office last year Kenyatta vowed to lift tourist numbers to 5 million annually within five years, three times' last year's level, and get economic growth into double figures in his bid to raise incomes and lift millions out of poverty. Those targets always looked optimistic to economists and seem further out of reach following a spike in attacks on Kenya, blamed on militants linked to Somalia, this year.
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| U.S. soldier flies to freedom after Afghan prisoner swap | |  By David Brunnstrom and Warren Strobel BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - T he sole American prisoner of war held in Afghanistan was flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Sunday, after he was dramatically freed in a swap deal for five Taliban militants who were released from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had been held for nearly five years and his release, following years of on-and-off negotiations, suddenly became possible after harder-line factions of the Afghan Taliban shifted course and agreed to back it, according to U.S. officials. A U.S. defense official said Bergdahl was able to walk and became emotional on his way to freedom, after being handed over to U.S. special forces in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday. "The operators replied loudly: 'Yes, we've been looking for you for a long time.' And at this point, Sergeant Bergdahl broke down." U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he hoped the successful prisoner exchange deal might lead to breakthroughs in reconciliation with the militants.
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| France arrests suspect in Brussels Jewish museum shooting | | | PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French police have arrested a man suspected of involvement in the shooting deaths last weekend of three people at Brussels' Jewish Museum, officials said on Sunday. The 29-year-old was arrested in the southern French city of Marseille on Friday and had a Kalashnikov and another gun with him, a French police source said. The man, named by the source as Mehdi Nemmouche, was from the northern French city of Roubaix. French media reported that he was suspected of having stayed in Syria with jihadist groups in 2013. |
| Insight - Once on the edge of defeat, Syria's Assad runs again for president | |  By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) - It was not so long ago that Bashar al-Assad's enemies thought he was finished. In the summer of 2012, the rebels were not just at the gates of Damascus, but inside the capital, preying on Assad's harried forces. His government had lost big chunks of Syria's territory and a string of strategic towns, and a small number of loyal and tested army units were rotating around the country in an exhausting attempt to hold back rebel advances on many fronts. Now, even as the United States seeks to increase aid and training to moderate rebels to fight Assad's forces, U.S. officials privately concede Assad isn't going anywhere soon.
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| Iran executes man for links to exiled opposition group - Fars | | | Iran executed a man on Sunday for links with the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), an exiled Iranian opposition group, the semi-official Fars news agency said. Fars said Iran had charged Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani with providing financial assistance to the PMOI, which seeks the removal of the Islamic Republic's clerical leadership. At the time of his arrest, Fars said, Iranian police found video and documents describing "important centres including military installations" which had been passed on to the PMOI. |
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