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| Hindu priest killed in Bangladesh, ISIS claims responsibility | | | Suspected Islamist militants stabbed to death a Hindu priest at a temple in Bangladesh on Sunday, and shot and wounded a devotee who went to his aid. Police said the attack was perpetrated by a local militant group, while Islamic State claimed responsibility in a statement issued via social media. Bangladesh has experienced a wave of militant violence in recent months, including a series of bomb attacks on mosques and Hindu temples. |
| Six dead in Michigan random shootings, suspect in custody | | | A gunman killed six people and wounded two in seemingly random parking lot shootings in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, before being arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning, a county prosecutor said. The 45-year-old suspect, Jason Dalton, was believed to have opened fire late on Saturday outside an apartment complex, a Kia car dealership and a Cracker Barrel restaurant over a period of little more than four hours, Kalamazoo County prosecutor Jeff Getting said. "They were shot multiple times, multiple - nine, 10, 11 shell casings at each of these scenes." The carnage in Kalamazoo, a city of about 75,000 people 150 miles (240 km) west of Detroit, was the latest in a series of mass shootings that have made gun control a campaign issue ahead of November's U.S. presidential election. |
| Death toll rises to seven in Kashmir militant clash | |  The death toll from a militant attack in India's disputed Kashmir region rose to seven on Sunday, as security forces fought to flush attackers out of a building they had stormed. The militants had attacked a bus carrying police reservists near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, before breaking into a training institute. "We have killed one militant," Bhavish Choudhary, a spokesman for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), said on Sunday evening.
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| Three Turkish journalists freed after kidnapping by Kurdish militants - agency | | | By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Three journalists from Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency were freed on Sunday after being kidnapped by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the news agency said. The journalists were abducted and held for more than 48 hours, Anadolu said on its website. Security sources in the southeast told Reuters the three were believed to have been kidnapped after filming in a PKK stronghold without permission from the militant group. |
| Army deployed to quell protests, water cut to Delhi | |  By Rupam Jain and Douglas Busvine BAHADURGARH, India/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India deployed thousands of troops in Haryana on Sunday to quell protests that have severely hit water supplies to Delhi, a metropolis of more than 20 million, forced factories to close and killed 10 people. Rioting and looting in Haryana by the Jats, a rural caste, is symptomatic of increasingly fierce competition for government jobs and educational openings in India, whose growing population is set to overtake China's within a decade. The latest unrest threatens to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of better days to come for Indians who elected him in 2014 with the largest majority in three decades.
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| Netanyahu defends top general in excessive force debate | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel's military chief on Sunday after the general was criticised for saying he would not want soldiers confronting a wave of Palestinian stabbings to "empty a magazine" into a girl wielding scissors. One member of Netanyahu's right-wing cabinet said Lieutenant-General Gadi Eisenkot's remarks last week could be misinterpreted by Israel's international critics as confirming allegations, which it denies, that disproportionate force has been used against assailants, many of them youths. Netanyahu called the internal political debate "hollow" and said Israel's top general was merely "stating the obvious" about rules of military engagement, under which soldiers can open fire only when lives are in danger.
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| PM Cameron urges London Mayor Boris not to join EU leave campaign | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron urged rival Boris Johnson on Sunday not to join the campaign for a British exit from the European Union as the London mayor kept Britain guessing over a decision that could influence millions of voters in a June referendum. Cameron called the June 23 poll after clinching a deal from other EU leaders that he said will give Britain special status in the world's biggest trading bloc, though six of his cabinet rebelled and are campaigning to leave the EU. Johnson, a political showman whose buffoonish and eccentric exterior masks fierce ambition to succeed Cameron, has so far been silent, though British media has speculated that the 51-year-old will join the campaign to leave the EU.
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| Pope calls for worldwide abolition of death penalty | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty, saying the commandment "You shall not kill" was absolute and equally valid for the guilty as for the innocent. Using some of his strongest words ever against capital punishment, he also called on Catholic politicians worldwide to make "a courageous and exemplary gesture" by seeking a moratorium on executions during the Church's current Holy Year, which ends in November. "I appeal to the consciences of those who govern to reach an international consensus to abolish the death penalty," he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.
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| Turkey's Anadolu says three of its journalists kidnapped by PKK | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three journalists working for Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency in the southeastern Mardin province have been kidnapped by members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the agency said on Sunday, confirming earlier media reports. Anadolu confirmed the kidnapping on its website. No further information was immediately available. (Reporting by Orhan Coskun in Ankara; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Janet Lawrence) |
| Three journalists from Turkish state news agency kidnapped by PKK - media | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three reporters for Turkey's state-owned Anadolu Agency have been kidnapped by insurgents from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Mardin, in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the Hurriyet newspaper and other Turkish media reported on Sunday. No other information was immediately available. (Reporting by Murad Sezer in Istanbul and Seyhmus Cakan in Diyarbakir; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Janet Lawrence) |
| Moderates could gain influence over choice of next leader in Iran vote | |  By Babak Dehghanpisheh BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran's Assembly of Experts, made up mostly of elderly clerics, has not mattered much for years. The body's main task is choosing Iran's supreme leader, but that job has not come vacant since 1989. This time it's different. Given the ailing health of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 76, the Assembly to be elected on Feb 26 for an eight-year term is likely to pick his successor, charting the course of the country for many years to come. ...
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