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| 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. |
| UAE sentences Emirati woman to death for killing U.S. teacher | | | A United Arab Emirates court on Monday sentenced a UAE woman to death for the Islamist-inspired killing of an American kindergarten teacher in December, the state news agency WAM said. The teacher, identified as Romanian-born Ibolya Ryan, a mother of 11-year-old twins, was stabbed to death in a toilet at an Abu Dhabi shopping mall. The Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi convicted the woman, Ala'a Badr Abdullah al-Hashemi, 30, of the killing and imposed the death penalty, WAM said. |
| Number of Britons killed in Tunisia attack likely to rise to 30 - PM spokeswoman | |  LONDON (Reuters) - The number of Britons confirmed killed by an Islamist gunman in Tunisia last Friday has risen to 18 from 15 and the final death toll is likely to increase to around 30 people, a spokeswoman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday. "We have now confirmed 18 British nationals killed and we expect that number to rise further ... and it's likely to be around 30," the spokeswoman told reporters. (Reporting by William James; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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| Exclusive: In turf war with Afghan Taliban, Islamic State loyalists gain ground | |  By Hamid Shalizi SURKH DEWAL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Fighters loyal to Islamic State have seized substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time, witnesses and officials said, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new threat to stability. Witnesses who fled fighting in Nangarhar province told Reuters that hundreds of insurgents pledging allegiance to Islamic State pushed out the Taliban, scorching opium poppy fields that help to fund the Taliban's campaign to overthrow the Afghan government. "They (IS loyalists) came in on many white pickup trucks mounted with big machine guns and fought the Taliban.
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