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| 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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| Germany frees Al Jazeera journalist despite Egypt detention request | |  A prominent Al Jazeera journalist was released in Germany on Monday, the television network and German authorities said, two days after he was detained at Berlin airport at Egypt's request. Ahmed Mansour, one of Jazeera's best known journalists, was released without charge, the pan-Arab television channel's Berlin correspondent Eissa Taibi said. An official at the Berlin state prosecutor's office confirmed his release.
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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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