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| NBCUniversal fires Donald Trump over remarks about Mexicans | |  (Reuters) - NBCUniversal ended its relationship with real estate developer Donald Trump and his "Miss USA" and "Miss Universe" shows on Monday after he made derogatory comments about Mexicans when he began his run for president last week. The pageants, which are part of a joint venture between NBC and Trump, would no longer air on NBC "due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants" the company said in a press release. Trump was already not going to take part in "The Apprentice" on NBC, a show in which Trump uses his signature "You're Fired!" as he eliminates competitors.
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| U.S. raid on Afghan weapons cache incites protests | | | By Mirwais Harooni and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces conducted a raid to destroy a cache of weapons north of Kabul early on Monday morning, a U.S. army spokesman said, giving rare details of unilateral activity in Afghanistan. Afghan residents took to the streets in Parwan province in protest, briefly obstructing the highway to the capital. Solo U.S. operations are legal under a bilateral security agreement the two nations signed last year, but only in exceptional circumstances. |
| U.S. charges fifth man in alleged N.Y.-N.J. Islamic State plot | | | A New Jersey man was arrested on Monday on charges of conspiring to provide support to the militant group Islamic State, the fifth man to be arrested in recent weeks as part of a broader probe in the New York City region. Alaa Saadeh, 23, of West New York, New Jersey, was expected to appear in Newark federal court later on Monday, the U.S. Justice Department said. According to a criminal complaint, Saadeh was working with Munther Omar Saleh, a college student from Queens who was arrested on June 13 along with an unnamed co-conspirator when the two men charged a surveillance vehicle. |
| Two Uber executives taken into police custody in France | | | By Sophie Louet and Leila Abboud PARIS (Reuters) - French police have detained two executives from Uber for questioning as a government clampdown intensifies on the U.S.-based taxi and ride-sharing service. Thibaud Simphal, manager of Uber France, and Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, general manager for western Europe, were detained as part of an investigation that earlier led to Uber's offices being raided by police in March. The probe focuses on one of the company's several local transport options known as UberPOP, which allows passengers to book rides with non-professional drivers via their mobile phones, infuriating taxi operators. |
| Pakistan police kill four suspected Taliban militants in Punjab - officials | | | By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police and intelligence officials shot and killed three suspected Islamist militants in a raid on their hideout in eastern Pakistan early on Monday and a fourth blew himself up, police and intelligence officials said. Many Pakistani Taliban fighters and other Islamist militants from the western region near Afghanistan have fled to other parts of the country, officials say, as security forces press on with ground and air offensives in North Waziristan. |
| Israel, Palestinians say to investigate Gaza warcrime accusations | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians promised on Monday to investigate alleged war crimes committed by their forces during the 2014 Gaza war, amid growing calls for an end to impunity on both sides. During an often virulent three-hour debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council, boycotted by Israel, the president of the Geneva forum rebuked envoys of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for referring to Israel as a "racist regime" and its "genocidal aggression". The council examined a report issued by U.N. investigators last week saying Israel and Palestinian militant groups committed grave abuses of international humanitarian law during the Gaza conflict that may amount to war crimes. |
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