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| U.N. chief presses Iraq on national reconciliation to defeat Islamic State | | | By Saif Hameed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on the Iraqi government on Saturday to step up efforts to foster reconciliation between the nation's Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim communities in order to combat Islamic State. "National reconciliation is an important part of the strategy to defeat Daesh (Islamic State), who have ruthlessly exploited divisions and targeted the marginalized and disenfranchised," he told a joint news conference in Baghdad with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. The U.N. chief was referring to the country's minority Sunnis who say they were marginalized under the Shi'ite-led government installed after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and some of whom have joined the militant group which seized swathes of Iraq nearly two years ago. |
| Belgian prosecutors charge three men with terrorism | | | Belgian federal prosecutors on Saturday said they had charged three men, including a suspect Belgian media believe is a man captured on security footage with two suicide bombers at Brussels airport on Tuesday. This man, named only as Faycal C and who media say was the man wearing a hat and a light jacket in the picture at the airport, was charged with taking part in the activities of a terrorist group and actual and attempted terrorist murder. Two other men, Aboubakar A. and Rabah N., were also charged with terrorist activities and membership of a terrorist group. |
| Nigeria targets 300 army officers, firms, in widening corruption probe | | Friday, March 25, 2016 1:15 AM | |
|  Nigeria has accused 300 firms and individuals, including army officers, of embezzling 48 billion naira ($241.45 million) through overpaid defence contracts or fraud, the presidency said on Thursday in a widening a crackdown on graft. President Muhammadu Buhari was elected a year ago on a pledge to root out endemic corruption that has held most of the 180 million Nigerians in poverty despite the country's enormous oil wealth. The former military ruler has fired or investigated dozens of officials serving under his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, and ordered an audit of key government bodies such as state oil firm NNPC.
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| Belgian police arrest six in bombing probe, French foil Paris plot | | Friday, March 25, 2016 12:53 AM | |
| | By Alastair Macdonald, Ingrid Melander and Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police arrested six people in their probe of Tuesday's Islamic State suicide bombings in Brussels, while authorities in France said they thwarted a militant plot there "that was at an advanced stage." The federal prosecutor's office in Belgium said on Thursday that the arrests came during police searches in the Brussels neighbourhoods of Schaerbeek in the north and Jette in the west, as well as in the centre of the Belgian capital. The arrests came days after suicide bombers hit the Brussels airport and a metro train, killing at least 31 people and wounding some 270 in the worst such attack in Belgian history. The attack in Brussels, which is home to the European Union and NATO, has heightened security concerns around the world and raised questions about European countries' response to the threat from Islamist extremists. |
| Egypt says murdered Italian student's bag found with gang | | Thursday, March 24, 2016 11:38 PM | |
|  By Amina Ismail CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Interior Ministry said on Thursday that security forces had retrieved a bag and passport belonging to murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni that was in the possession of a criminal gang impersonating policemen who had been killed in a shootout. Human rights groups have said torture marks on Regeni's body, which was dumped on the side of the road, indicated he died at the hands of Egyptian security services, an allegation the government has strongly denied. Regeni, 28, disappeared on Jan. 25, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that ended former president Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.
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| Six arrests in Brussels police operation after bombings | | Thursday, March 24, 2016 11:10 PM | |
| | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police detained six people on Thursday in the course of investigations into Tuesday's Islamic State suicide bombings in Brussels, the federal prosecutors office said in a statement. It said the arrests were made during police searches in the Brussels boroughs of Schaerbeek in the north and Jette in the west, as well as in the centre of Brussels itself. A decision on charging the suspects would be made on Friday. No further details were available. (Reporting by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Sandra Maler) |
| France says it foils advanced attack plot -minister | | Thursday, March 24, 2016 11:08 PM | |
| | A French national suspected of belonging to a militant network planning an attack in France was arrested on Thursday morning, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. The arrest helped "foil a plot in France that was at an advanced stage," Cazeneuve said on Thursday night in a televised address from his ministry. "At this stage, there is no tangible evidence that links this plot to the attacks in Paris and Brussels," said Cazeneuve, who was in the Belgian capital earlier on Thursday. |
| U.S. indicts Iranians for hacking dozens of banks, New York dam | | Thursday, March 24, 2016 10:29 PM | |
| | By Dustin Volz and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Seven Iranian hackers conducted a coordinated cyber attack on dozens of U.S. banks, causing millions of dollars in lost business, and tried to shut down a New York dam, the U.S. government said on Thursday in an indictment that for the first time accused individuals tied to another country of trying to disrupt critical infrastructure. It said the seven accused were believed to have been working on behalf of Iran's government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. |
| Brussels suicide bomber Laachraoui 'nice, clever', brother says | | Thursday, March 24, 2016 9:56 PM | |
|  By Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels suicide bomber Najim Laachraoui was a nice, intelligent boy, his brother said on Thursday, and gave no warning signs of being radicalised before he left for Syria in 2013 and broke all contact with his family. A veteran Islamist fighter in Syria, he is also suspected of making explosive belts for last November's Paris attacks. No one in the family saw any change in his attitude before the day he called them to say he had left for Syria, his 20-year-old brother Mourad said.
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| Belgian ministers offer to quit over security lapses | | Thursday, March 24, 2016 9:38 PM | |
|  By Alastair Macdonald, Foo Yun Chee and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's interior and justice ministers offered to resign on Thursday over a failure to track an Islamic State militant expelled by Turkey as a suspected fighter and who blew himself up at Brussels airport this week. Brahim El Bakraoui was one of three identified suspected suicide bombers who hit the airport and a metro train, killing at least 31 people and wounding some 270 on Tuesday in the worst attack in Belgian history. At least one other man seen with them on airport security cameras is on the run and a fifth suspected bomber filmed in the metro attack may be dead or alive.
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