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| Nigeria bomb kills at least 14 at northeast football TV showing | | Monday, June 02, 2014 2:37 AM | |
| | By Lanre Ola and Imma Ande MAIDUGURI/YOLA Nigeria (Reuters) - A bomb blast targeting a television viewing centre for football in northeast Nigeria killed at least 14 people and wounded 12 on Sunday, police and the military said. Islamist militant group Boko Haram, whose struggle for an Islamic state is concentrated in the Northeast, would be the prime suspect. "So far we have 14 dead while 12 are injured, some of them critically," police spokesman for Adamawa state Usman Abubakar said by telephone. The group has set off several bombs across north and central Nigeria over the past two months, repeatedly causing carnage. |
| France arrests suspect in Brussels Jewish museum shooting | |  By Ingrid Melander and Adrian Croft PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A 29-year-old Frenchman believed to have returned recently from fighting with Islamist militant rebels in Syria has been arrested for the killing of three people at Brussels' Jewish Museum last month, prosecutors said on Sunday. Mehdi Nemmouche was detained on Friday after a random check at a bus terminal in the French city of Marseille showed he was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle, another gun and ammunition similar to those used in the shooting last weekend, French and Belgian prosecutors said. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters Nemmouche had been carrying a video where a voice resembling his own claims responsibility for the shootings. European governments have become increasingly worried that citizens going to fight in Syria will import Islamist militancy on their return.
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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) - The sole American prisoner of war held in Afghanistan was flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Sunday after being 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 negotiations, suddenly became possible after harder-line factions of the Afghan Taliban shifted course and agreed to back it, U.S. officials said. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he hoped the exchange might lead to breakthroughs in reconciliation with the militants. "As I said and explained before, Sergeant Bergdahl was a prisoner of war.
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| Soccer-Pele's son sentenced to 33 years in prison | | | The son of former Brazil striker Pele has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for laundering money earned from drug trafficking, Brazilian media reported. Edinho, who played as a goalkeeper for his father's former club Santos, served a jail sentence for drug trafficking between 2005 and 2006. Edinho, whose real name is Edson Cholbi do Nascimento, is expected to appeal against the judge's decision but must hand over his passport to the authorities. Pele, widely regarded as the best footballer of all time, helped Brazil win the World Cup three times. |
| 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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