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| Pakistani cleric launches anti-ISIS curriculum in Britain | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A prominent Pakistani Islamic cleric launched a "counter-terrorism" curriculum in London on Tuesday, to rebut the message of militant groups such as Islamic State (ISIS) and stop young people becoming radicalised and heading to Syria. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, a politician, scholar and fiery orator, said he wanted his 900-page curriculum, containing theological and ideological arguments to undermine extremists, to be taught not just at mosques and Islamic institutions but at schools across Britain. "We want to make clear that all activities being carried out by ISIS or any other terroristic and extremistic organisation either in the name of God or religion or establishing any kind of Islamic state by acts of violence ... are totally in violation of the Koran and Islam," he told Reuters.
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| Soldier's heroics lift gloom for Afghans tired of Taliban attacks | |  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - On Monday morning, Essa Khan was an just another Afghan soldier earning about $200 a month to guard national institutions in Kabul from militant attack. Khan's overnight fame underlines Afghans' yearning for good news in a year when violence has risen, Taliban insurgents appear to be gaining ground and a government formed after last year's messy election is still mired in disputes. Recalling the dramatic events, Khan told Reuters on Tuesday that as soon as a car bomb exploded outside the parliamentary compound, he prepared for more insurgents to attack.
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| Assad troops and rebels targeting civilians in Syria - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government forces have dropped barrel bombs on Aleppo nearly daily this year, amounting to the war crime of targeting civilians, and insurgent shelling has caused mass casualties, U.N. investigators said on Tuesday. The military and rebel groups, including Islamic State, have imposed sieges to "devastating effect" on a total of 420,000 Syrians, depriving them of food and medicine and leading to malnutrition and starvation, they said. "Civilians continue to lose their lives, homes and livelihoods in a conflict in which there little if any attempt to adhere to international law," Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. commission of inquiry, told a news conference.
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| Greek offer to creditors stirs angry backlash at home | |  By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek lawmakers reacted angrily on Tuesday to concessions Athens offered in debt talks and parliament's deputy speaker warned the proposals might be rejected, puncturing optimism that a deal to pull Greece back from the abyss might be sealed quickly. Euro zone leaders welcomed new budget proposals from Athens on Monday as a basis for further negotiations to unlock billions of euros in frozen aid and avert a default that could trigger a Greek exit from the single currency area. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who was voted into office in January on a pledge to roll back years of austerity in a country battered by recession, must keep his leftist Syriza party as well as his creditors onside for a deal to stick.
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| Poland detains two young Britons suspected of stealing Auschwitz items | | | Polish police said on Tuesday they had detained two British teenage boys at the site of the former Auschwitz death camp on suspicion of stealing artefacts that belonged to prisoners held there during World War Two. The two, both aged 17, are pupils of the Perse School in Cambridge, England. The pupils were spotted on Monday afternoon acting suspiciously near a building where Nazi German guards had stored prisoners' confiscated belongings, said a spokesman for the museum which now operates on the site of the camp. |
| Del Toro takes drug lord role in "Escobar: Paradise Lost" | |  Academy Award winner Benicio del Toro plays the leader of one of the world's most powerful criminal organisations in "Escobar: Paradise Lost", which hits U.S. cinemas at the weekend. Pablo Escobar was once Colombia's most-wanted fugitive and his Medellin Cartel shipped cocaine to the United States and Europe. Del Toro is no stranger to playing big personalities, having portrayed Argentine guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara in the 2008 biopic "Che".
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| North Korea gives South Korea "spies" life of hard labour; U.N. rights office opens | | | By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's highest court on Tuesday sentenced two South Koreans accused of spying to hard labour for life, its state media said, calling the punishment a lesson for those who conspire with Washington and Seoul. The report of the sentencing came as the United Nations opened a field office in Seoul to investigate rights abuses in North Korea, a plan that has drawn anger from Pyongyang, which denies wrongdoing. North Korea has accused the two men, Kim Kuk Gi and Choe Chun Gil, of working as spies for the South's National Intelligence Service (NIS) from the Chinese border city of Dandong. |
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