Villeneuve-la-Garenne (France) (AFP) – French police on Monday were hunting armed robbers who escaped after holding up a store in a shopping mall near Paris, prompting special forces to intervene and seal off the area. The three men — one of whom was thought to be an employee of the shop — burst into the Primark store in Villeneuve-la-Garenne early Monday, said a police source who wished to remain anonymous.
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Security forces in Burundi said Monday they had arrested around 170 suspected rebels and seized a number of weapons in a crackdown ahead of next week’s presidential elections. The Burundian army spokesman, Colonel Gaspard Baratuza, said the rebels were detained after clashes in the northern provinces of Kayanza and Cibitoke. Provincial governor Aline Maniratunga said around 30 supporters of opposition leader Agathon Rwasa were arrested in the operation.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appealed to his party’s lawmakers on Friday to back a tough reforms package after abruptly offering last-minute concessions to try to save the country from financial meltdown. After walking into a party meeting to applause, Tsipras rallied his Syriza lawmakers to throw their weight behind the new proposals ahead of a snap vote in parliament on the negotiations, urging them to help keep Greece in
By John Irish and Arshad Mohammed VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and major powers gave themselves until Monday to reach a nuclear agreement, their third extension in two weeks, as Tehran accused the West of throwing up new stumbling blocks to a deal. Having missed a Friday morning U.S. congressional deadline, U.S. and European Union officials said they were extending sanctions relief for Iran under an interim deal through Monday to
By Ahmed Rasheed and Phil Stewart ERBIL, Iraq/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iraqi Shi’ite militia fighters are tightening a noose around the Islamic State-held city of Falluja west of Baghdad as the first stage of a counter-offensive in the Sunni province of Anbar, likely to determine the course of the conflict in coming months. Islamic State seized Anbar’s capital Ramadi two months ago, extending its control over the Euphrates river valley west
UFA, Russia (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that there were more chances for Ukraine crisis to be successfully resolved rather than for it to fail. He also said efforts to resolve the crisis have been hindered by Kiev’s reluctance to directly negotiate with the rebels in east Ukraine. (Reporting by Darya Korsunskaya, Denis Pinchuk, Lidia Kelly and Katya Golubkova; writing by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Jack
The leader of a banned French group was sentenced to nine years in jail on Friday on terrorism charges after police raids found weapons and a list of Jewish targets in his personal files. The Paris court handed down the sentence to Mohamed Achamlane, one of 14 people tried on charges of “criminal conspiracy related to a terrorist enterprise”. The trial followed raids on the homes of members of a
A gunman shot and killed two people in northern Bavaria on Friday and was later captured, German police said. “Thanks to the courageous intervention of these employees, the perpetrator was able to be stopped,” Joachim Hermann, Bavaria’s interior minister, told a news conference.
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