Philippine president says no genocide in his bloody drug war
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte poses is greeted by supporters following a wreath-laying ceremony in observance of National Heroes Day Monday, Aug. 29, 2016 at the Heroes Cemetery in suburban Taguig city east of Manila, Philippines. In his address, Duterte announces a 2 million peso ($43,000) bounty for each police officer who are protecting drug lords in his unrelenting anti-illegal drugs campaign that saw close to 2,000 killed since he took office June 30. (Bullit Marquez/Associated P..>> view originalIndonesian church attacker 'obsessed' with Islamic State leader - senior m...
JAKARTA 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-Bag..>> view originalIn Syria, Rebels Threaten Kurdish-Controlled Territory as US Allies Clash
Photo Turkish tanks on Saturday driving from Karkamis, Turkey, across the border into Syria. Credit Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images BEIRUT, Lebanon — In a new escalation that further complicates American involvement in the Syrian war, Syrian rebels pressed deeper into the northern part of the country on Sunday, seizing territory with the aid of Turkish airstrikes.The rebels, with Turkey’s help, took the border town of Jarabulus last week from the Islami..>> view originalIndian Officials Lift Curfew From Most of Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India — Authorities on Monday lifted a curfew imposed in most parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir as part of a 52-day security lockdown, although most shops and businesses remained closed due to an ongoing strike called to protest Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region.Government forces on Monday removed steel barricades and coils of barbed wire from the roads across the region, but officials said the curfew would continue in some parts of the old quarters of Kashmir's main ci..>> view originalCalais chief wants new migrant border deal with UK
Media captionFormer ambassador Sir Peter Ricketts: "It would be a huge magnet, pulling thousands and thousands more migrants into Calais to chance their arm" Migrants in Calais seeking asylum in the UK should be allowed to lodge their claim in France, the president of the region has told the BBC.Xavier Bertrand said people living in the camp known as the Jungle should be able to apply at a "hotspot" in France rather than waiting to reach Britain.UK officials currently check passports in Fra..>> view originalSuicide Bomber Strikes Wedding in Iraq, Kills 15
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi security official says a suicide bomber has struck a wedding south of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people.Lt. Gen. Qais al-Mohammedawi says five suicide bombers took part in the attack in the village of Ein Tamr on Monday, but that the other four were killed by security forces.He says they were members of the Islamic State group, which has stepped up attacks on security forces and the country's Shiite majority in recent months as it has suffered a string of battlefield setba..>> view originalNo injuries after explosion at Belgium's criminology center
BRUSSELS – Reports of a bomb outside Belgium's criminal institute early Monday are probably false, the Brussels prosecutor's office said, describing the incident as much more likely an arson attack designed to destroy criminal evidence. "It's probably not terrorism. It's a criminal act," said spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch. "I cannot confirm that there was any bomb." State broadcaster RTBF and other outlets had reported that a car drove through a security barrier at the site about 2 a.m. (8 p...>> view originalKerry in Bangladesh for security talks amid terror concerns
By Matthew Lee | AP August 29 at 4:39 AM DHAKA, Bangladesh — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s is in Bangladesh for security and human rights talks amid increasing concern about terrorism in the South Asian nation in the wake of a series of extremist attacks. Kerry, on his first trip to Bangladesh as America’s top diplomat, met in Dhaka on Monday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister Abul Hassam Mahmood Ali and was later to see opposition officials and talk to students. B..>> view originalHillary Clinton the conspiracy theorist
ANALYSIS/OPINION:Politicians will say anything, but when Hillary Clinton took to the microphone last week in Reno to warn against a candidate who believes in paranoid conspiracy theories about the presidency, no one could figure out whether she was talking about Donald Trump or herself.Mere belief is not enough to persuade most of us. Millions of Americans, for example, believe that Elvis Presley is alive and clerking in a 7-Eleven somewhere in West Gondola, perhaps working nights in the attic o..>> view originalSuicide Bomber in Yemen's Aden Kills 25 Government Fighters
SANAA, Yemen — A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Monday killed at least 45 pro-government troops who had been preparing to travel to Saudi Arabia to fight Houthi rebels in Yemen's north, officials said.The men were at a staging area near two schools and a mosque where they were registering to join the expedition. The Saudis hope to train up to 5,000 fighters and deploy them to the Saudi cities of Najran and Jizan, near the border, Ye..>> view original
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