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| Egypt bars scores of Egyptians from traveling - Human Rights Watch | |  Egypt has increasingly used unlawful means to prevent citizens from traveling outside the country over the past year, a report from Human Rights Watch said on Sunday, another sign of the government's tightening grip on political opposition. Members of political parties, youth activists, and people associated with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and former President Mohamed Mursi are among those who have been turned back at the airport, their passports often confiscated and not returned, the report said. "The Egyptian authorities have jailed thousands of dissidents in the past two years and are now turning the country's own borders into de facto prison walls," said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
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| Islamist al Shabaab attacks Somali hotel, kill at least 13 | | | By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Security forces in the Somali capital fought for several hours on Sunday before clearing a hotel of Islamist al Shabaab gunmen who had stormed the building after two bombs ripped into it, police and witnesses said. Al Shabaab, which has frequently launched attacks in Mogadishu in its bid to topple the Western-backed government, said it was behind the assault on the Sahafi hotel, where government officials and lawmakers stay. "Mujahideen (fighters) entered and took over Sahafi hotel where enemies lived," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operations spokesman, told Reuters. |
| Divided Turkey votes in snap election, security fears loom large | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turks went to the polls in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday under the shadow of mounting internal bloodshed and economic worries, a vote that could determine the trajectory of the polarised country and of President Tayyip Erdogan. The vote is the second in five months, after the AK Party founded by Erdogan lost in June the single-party governing majority it has enjoyed since first coming to power in 2002. Since then, a ceasefire with Kurdish militants has collapsed, the war in neighbouring Syria has worsened and Turkey - a NATO member state - has been hit by two Islamic State-linked suicide bomb attacks that killed more than 130 people.
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| Britain to present new watered down surveillance bill | |  Britain's government will present a new bill to give security agencies the powers to track online communications, but in a bid to win over critics interior minister Theresa May said they would not get automatic access to people's browsing history. May told the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday that the new bill, to be presented in parliament on Wednesday, was "quite different" from earlier plans to give police greater powers to monitor communications and web activities that opponents dubbed a "snoopers' charter".
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| Black boxes from crashed Russian plane will be examined within hours | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian and Russian investigators will begin examining within hours the contents of the two black boxes recovered from the Russian airliner that crashed over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, judicial and ministerial sources said. The sources said the examination would take place at the civil aviation ministry in Cairo. (Reporting by Lin Noueihed; editing by John Stonestreet) |
| FBI says no 'conclusive evidence' Maldives boat blast caused by bomb | |  (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it has found no conclusive evidence that an explosion on a boat transporting Maldives President Abdulla Yameen was caused by a bomb. The Maldives government, however, said the FBI statement was contrary to the outcome of other investigators.
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