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| Suicide bomber kills at least 15 at wedding party in southern Iraq | | | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people at a wedding party near the southern Shi'ite city of Kerbala late on Sunday, an Iraqi police statement said on Monday. (Reporting by Maher Chmaytelli; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Kurdish spokesman says YPG forces not reinforcing Syria's Manbij | | | A spokesman for the autonomous Kurdish region in Syria told Reuters on Monday that local military councils in the cities of Manbij and Jarablus are being reinforced, but not by Kurdish YPG militia. "There are reinforcements, but not by the YPG. Because the YPG are east of the Euphrates," Ibrahim Ibrahim, head of the Rojava Media Office told Reuters. |
| Australia's Turnbull faces tough parliament after election setback | |  By Matt Siegel Canberra (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faces a tooth and nail fight with an emboldened opposition and slew of independent lawmakers when parliament returns on Tuesday for the first time since elections last month in which he took a beating. Turnbull called early polls to break a deadlock in the upper house Senate, where a handful of independents blocked the government's agenda of corporate tax cuts and workplace reforms for more than two years. Everything that happens in Parliament now will be affected by the weak support the prime minister has in his own party room," Labor's Manager of Opposition Business Tony Burke told Reuters.
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| Arson at Brussels criminology institute, no casualties | | | By Robert-Jan Bartunek and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Arsonists set fire to Belgium's National Institute of Criminology in Brussels on Monday, causing an explosion but no casualties, a Brussels prosecutor said. Ine Van Wymersch said there were no immediate indications that the fire at the institute, which was empty at the time, was a militant attack although nothing had been ruled out. Europe has been on high alert after Islamic State attacks in Paris and Brussels over the past year. |
| Philippines' Duterte offers reward for corrupt police linked to drugs | |  Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday promised rewards running to tens of thousands of dollars for information leading to the capture of police officers protecting drug syndicates and warned corrupt officials they would face "a day of reckoning". In a National Heroes Day speech, Duterte said there would be no let-up in a "war on drugs" in which - according to police figures - more than 1,900 people have been killed since he came to power two months ago. Police say the toll of about 36 people a day is a result of drug dealers resisting arrest or gang feuds.
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| Los Angeles police say reports of gunfire at airport were false alarm | |  (Reuters) - Terminals at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) were evacuated briefly late on Sunday after reports of gunfire that police later determined were incorrect, in the second recent false alarm at a major U.S. airport. At least two terminals were closed while security personnel checked them for anything suspicious, according to Officer Alicia Hernandez of the Los Angeles Police Department. An investigation was under way, Andy Neiman, head of media relations for the LAPD, said in a Twitter message.
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| Australian aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan freed | | | SYDNEY/KABUL (Reuters) - An Australian aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan four months ago was freed following a raid by Afghan special forces near the eastern city of Jalalabad, officials said on Monday. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop confirmed in a statement that Kerry Jane Wilson, who was taken by two armed men from the offices of a charity in Jalalabad in April, had been freed and was "safe and well". A spokesman for Australia's foreign ministry declined to provide details but Afghanistan's National Directorate for Security said in a statement Wilson had been freed on Sunday night after a raid by special forces. |
| Indonesian church attacker 'obsessed' with Islamic State leader - senior minister | |  A knife-wielding Indonesian teen who tried to attack a priest at a church during a Sunday service was "obsessed" with extremist group Islamic State, a senior minister said on Monday. Indonesian authorities are increasingly worried about a resurgence in radicalism in the world's largest Muslim-majority country, driven in part by a new generation of jihadis inspired by Islamic State (IS). "From the cellphone that was seized by security forces, this youth was obsessed with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," Chief Security Minister Wiranto told reporters, referring to the leader of the Middle Eastern militant group.
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| Kerry in Bangladesh for talks on security, human rights | |  By Lesley Wroughton DHAKA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Bangladesh on Monday to discuss security cooperation after a series of killings by Islamist militants, as well as economic development and human rights. Kerry will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, opposition and civic leaders during the one-day visit, his first to Bangladesh as secretary of state. While security cooperation between the United States and Bangladesh is not new, the Bangladeshi government has insisted the latest attacks, including the recent killings at a cafe that targeted non-Muslims and foreigners, are the work of homegrown groups.
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