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| Militants launch car bomb, gun attack on Somali police base, seven dead |
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| Attackers set off two car bombs outside a police base in Somalia's capital before gunmen stormed inside on Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead, police said. Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the assault on the headquarters of Somalia's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Mogadishu, saying fighting was ongoing. It was the second major operation in the city this week by the Islamist militants who have kept up their guerilla war on the Western-backed government in the face of U.S. drone strikes and African peacekeeping forces. |
| Multiple victims reported from separate shootings in Austin, Texas - police |
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| (Reuters) - Separate shooting incidents in the Texas capital of Austin have left multiple victims, police said on Twitter early on Sunday as local media reported one person had been killed. "Both scenes are secure at this time," the Austin Police Department said in a message on Twitter about the separate shootings. An Austin police representative did not immediately return a call or an email seeking comment. |
| Chinese police seize nearly 400 baby Siamese crocodiles - Xinhua |
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| Border police seized 399 baby Siamese crocodiles, a protected endangered species, in southern China, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. The roughly 25-cm long crocodiles were about 15 days old and were likely trafficked from Vietnam, the report said. Police in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region said they saw three nervous-looking men moving goods in front of the house where the crocodiles were found and approached them for questioning. |
| Turkey expels nearly 1,400 personnel from armed forces - Anadolu |
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| ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has dismissed 1,389 personnel from the armed forces for suspected links to the U.S.-based cleric it blames for orchestrating a failed coup, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday. It gave no other details. The report comes hours after President Tayyip Erdogan said he planned several changes to the armed forces, including shutting military academies, steps designed to bring the military firmly under government control. ... |
| Rights group says ban militias with record of abuses from Mosul battle |
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 Iraqi military commanders should prevent militias with records of serious abuses from taking part in a planned offensive on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, campaign group Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. The battle for Mosul, the ultra-hardline militants' de facto capital in Iraq and the largest city anywhere in their self-proclaimed caliphate, is expected later this year but plans have not been finalised, officials and diplomats in Baghdad say. The role of Kurdish peshmerga forces and Shi'ite Muslim militias from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) is unresolved and remains a point of contention.
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