Politics

  WARSAW / AP Polish authorities have charged a Tunisian citizen with murder in the stabbing death of a Polish man on New Year’s Eve, a case that sparked violent protests over the weekend. The trouble began on Saturday evening when the 21-year-old Pole, identified only as Daniel, got into a quarrel with the employees of a kebab restaurant in ...

  YANGON / AFP Myanmar’s government has vowed to take action against police officers shown beating villagers in a video that has circulated on the internet. A front-page story on Monday in the state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper about the November 5 incident was a rare official acknowledgment of abuses taking place in the western state of Rakhine. ...

  YANGON / AP A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a security checkpoint near Mogadishu’s international airport on Monday, killing at least three people, a Somali police officer said. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the bomb detonated as security forces were searching cars at the checkpoint, a few hundred meters (yards) from the main base of the African Union peacekeeping ...

  BERLIN / AP German politicians voiced strong support on Monday for a police crackdown on potential troublemakers during New Year’s celebrations in the city of Cologne, despite concern that officers may have engaged in racial profiling. Police stopped hundreds of North African men heading into downtown Cologne on Saturday to prevent a repeat of the robberies and sexual assaults ...

  BERLIN / AP Authorities say a man has been detained in western Germany on suspicion of financing terrorism. Police and prosecutors in Saarland state, on the French border, wouldn’t give details before a news conference planned later Monday. They said that the 38-year-old man from Saarbruecken was detained on Saturday, news agency dpa reported.

  BAGHDAD / AP A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden vehicle on Monday in a bustling market area in Baghdad, killing at least 36 people, Iraqi officials said, hours after the arrival of French President Francois Hollande to the country and amid a fierce fight against the IS group. The bomber driving a pickup truck attacked an outdoor fruit and ...

  JERUSALEM / AP Israeli media is reporting that police are expected to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a pair of corruption allegations. A black screen was placed on Monday in front of Netanyahu’s official residence in apparent anticipation of the police investigators’ arrival and to obstruct the view of journalists seeking to film them. Netanyahu has denied what ...

  KABUL / AP An Afghan official says that at least one police officer has been killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Logar province. Salim Saleh, spokesman for the provincial governor in Logar, said on Monday that four other people including a district police commander and three road construction engineers were wounded in the blast. Meanwhile at least six ...

  TEHRAN / AP Iranian state TV is reporting the country’s coast guard has detained 21 fishermen and their three boats from neighboring Arab nations for straying into its territorial waters and fishing rare species. The Monday report said the traditional boats, known as dhows, had entered Iranian waters near the country’s Kish Island in the Persian Gulf. It said ...

  Bloomberg IS claimed responsibility for the killing of 39 people celebrating the New Year inside a fabled Istanbul nightclub, an act of terrorism that has become grimly familiar in Turkey as it fails to keep the violence in Syria from spilling into its cities. Shortly after midnight on Jan. 1, an assailant killed a police officer guarding the entrance ...