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| Iraq's Allawi endorses PM, says will help win over Sunnis |
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 By Oliver Holmes BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Vice President Iyad Allawi endorsed Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday, a move that will be seen as a step towards reconciliation in a political system that desperately needs to rebuild to allow Baghdad to fight Islamic State. For years Allawi, a secular Shi'ite Muslim, has been an outspoken critic of former premier Nuri al-Maliki whom he has accused of acting like Saddam Hussein in trying to silence his opponents. ...
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| Britain's Cameron to chair emergency meeting after hostage killed |
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 By Andrew Osborn and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON/EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron is to chair a meeting of the government's emergency response committee on Sunday to discuss an Islamic State (IS) video showing the beheading of British aid worker David Haines. IS militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released the video on Saturday. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage, but the images were consistent with those of the filmed executions of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, in the past month. ...
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| North Korea sentences U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller to six years hard labour |
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 SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller to six years hard labour for committing "hostile acts" as a tourist to the isolated country, a statement carried by state media said on Sunday. "He committed acts hostile to the DPRK while entering the territory of the DPRK under the guise of a tourist last April," the short statement said, without elaborating. ...
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| France condemns "heinous murder" of British aid worker |
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| PARIS (Reuters) - France on Sunday strongly condemned the murder of Briton David Haines by Islamic State militants and called for an international mobilisation to fight the Islamist group. "The heinous murder of David Haines shows once again how the international community must mobilise against Daesh," the French presidency said in statement, referring to the Arabic acronym for IS, which the presidency said was a vile and cowardly organisation. ... |
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