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| Japan to debate rescue missions after Islamic State executions |
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 By Linda Sieg and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO (Reuters) - The beheading of two Japanese citizens by Islamic State militants is fanning calls to allow Japan's long-constrained military to conduct overseas rescue missions as part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for a more muscular security posture. Islamic State militants said on Sunday they had beheaded a second Japanese hostage, war reporter Kenji Goto, prompting Abe to vow to step up humanitarian aid to the group's opponents in the Middle East and bring the killers to justice. Known as collective self-defence, the change would be the biggest military policy shift since Japan's armed forces were reassembled 60 years ago after its World War Two defeat.
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| Jailed Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste leaves Egypt for Australia |
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 Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste left Egypt for his native Australia on Sunday after serving 400 days in a Cairo prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, security officials said. There was no immediate word on the fate of his two Al Jazeera colleagues - Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian national Baher Mohamed - who were also jailed in the case that provoked an international outcry. The three were sentenced to seven to 10 years on charges including spreading lies to help a "terrorist organisation" - a reference to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Greste's release came as Egypt is reeling from one of the bloodiest attacks in years.
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| Obama proposes 14 percent tax on U.S. companies' untaxed foreign earnings |
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 By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget would impose a one-time 14 percent tax on some $2 trillion of accumulated U.S. corporate profits earned abroad and set up a 19 percent tax on future foreign earnings, a White House official said on Sunday. Obama's fiscal 2016 budget, which is set to be released on Monday, is as much a political document as a fiscal roadmap. The White House has long been critical of practices by U.S. companies that it views as avoiding tax responsibilities at home. The two proposals are part of a broader tax reform package that the Obama administration hopes will re-focus tax advantages toward middle-class Americans.
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| Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste leaves Egypt jail for Australia - security officials |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste left Egypt for his native Australia on Sunday after serving 400 days in an Egyptian prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, four security officials said. There was no immediate word on the fate of his two Al Jazeera colleagues -- Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed -- who were also jailed in the case that provoked an international outcry. (Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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| Boko Haram attacks northeast Nigeria's main city - witnesses |
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| By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Boko Haram insurgents attacked the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, their second assault in a week on a city they hope to make the capital of a breakaway Islamist state. At least eight people were killed as the insurgents fought gunbattles with government soldiers, witnesses and a hospital source said. Everybody is panicking and trying to flee the area," said Idris Abubakar, a resident of Polo on the southwestern outskirts of the city. In a separate incident in the town of Potiskum, 230 km (140 miles) west of Maiduguri, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the house of a federal legislator, killing 10 people, two security sources told Reuters. |
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