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| North Carolina man charged in plot to kill Americans for Islamic State | | | A North Carolina man has been charged with an alleged plot to buy a semiautomatic rifle which he planned to use to kill Americans to show his support for the Islamic State militant group, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday. Justin Nojan Sullivan, 19, of Morganton, North Carolina, who was arrested Friday, is due to appear in federal court in Charlotte at noon (1600 GMT), said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina. Sullivan is charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to Islamic State and two counts of weapons charges. |
| Germany frees Al Jazeera journalist despite Egypt's request | |  By Hans-Edzard Busemann BERLIN (Reuters) - Prominent Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour walked free from a Berlin prison on Monday, drawing a line under an awkward diplomatic incident for Germany two days after he was detained at Egypt's request. Ahmed Mansour, one of Jazeera's best-known journalists, was released after Egypt was unable to dispel concerns about the extradition process, the Berlin public prosecutor's office said in a statement. Earlier, a foreign ministry spokesman told a news conference that Germany would not extradite anyone to any country where he or she might be sentenced to death.
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| Hunt for NY escapees focuses on burglarized cabin 20 miles from prison | | | By Pete DeMola CADYVILLE, N.Y. (Reuters) - The 2-week-old search for two escaped murderers focused on a rural area about 20 miles away from the upstate New York prison they fled, authorities said on Monday, after evidence reportedly showed the pair had been inside a burglarized cabin. CNN, citing an unidentified law enforcement source, said the escapees' DNA was found on items in a cabin in Owls Head, New York. New York State Police said items from the cabin were being tested for DNA, but at a midday news conference, Major Charles Guess would not confirm the DNA of the two convicts had been found. |
| Polish airline, hit by cyber attack, says all carriers are at risk | | | By Wiktor Szary and Eric Auchard WARSAW/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - No airline is safe from the type of cyber attack that grounded aircraft and hundreds of passengers at Poland's busiest airport at the weekend, the chief executive of Polish national carrier LOT said on Monday. Poland's domestic intelligence agency said it had been called in to investigate, but there was no word on who might be responsible for the attack, which disabled the system LOT uses for issuing flights plans. "This is an industry problem on a much wider scale, and for sure we have to give it more attention," LOT chief executive Sebastian Mikosz told a news conference. |
| Ten Iraqi security officials killed in bombings and shooting | | | Bomb attacks killed at least eight soldiers in Iraq on Monday hours after gunmen shot dead two Interior Ministry intelligence officers in Baghdad, police and sources in an anti-Islamic State militia said. Iraq faces a major security challenge from Islamic State, an ultra-hardline Sunni militant group that controls a third of the country and parts of neighbouring Syria. Three roadside bombs hit the army patrol near the city of Haditha in the Sunni heartland Anbar Province, the focus of efforts to slow the advance of Islamic State. |
| Israel, Palestinians may have committed war crimes in Gaza - U.N. report | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. investigators said on Monday that Israel and Palestinian militant groups committed grave abuses of international humanitarian law during the 2014 Gaza conflict that may amount to war crimes. "The most that we can hope for out of this long and arduous process of inquiry is that we will push the ball of justice a little further down the field," Mary McGowan Davis, chairwoman of the U.N. commission of inquiry, told a news conference. A ceasefire last August ended 50 days of fighting between Gaza militants and Israel in which health officials said more than 2,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed. |
| World anti-money laundering body deletes FIFA-related warning | |  By Mark Hosenball and Brett Wolf London (Reuters) - A world anti-money laundering body has deleted all trace of an alert it issued last week warning that financial institutions had not done enough to police suspicious financial activity by officials at FIFA, soccer's global governing body. The alert, on the website of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force, was originally posted on June 16, almost three weeks after U.S. authorities indicted nine current and former FIFA officials and five business executives on a series of corruption charges, including bribery, money laundering and wire fraud.
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| 'White rights' group leader cited by South Carolina shooter donated to Republicans - reports | |  The head of a white supremacist group, cited by the suspected gunman who killed nine people at a black South Carolina church last week, has given thousands of dollars to several 2016 Republican presidential candidates, according to media reports. Earl Holt III of Texas, leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens, has donated a total of $65,000 to Texas Senator Ted Cruz, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, among other politicians in recent years, the Guardian reported late on Sunday.
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