Amman / AFP Jordanian police said on Monday they found suicide belts and other explosives in the hideout of suspected IS group extremists behind an attack that killed 10 people, including a Canadian tourist. Another 34 people were wounded in Sunday’s shooting spree, including a second Canadian. Four gunmen were shot dead by police during the course of a ...

  Beijing / AFP China on Monday rejected US President-elect Donald Trump’s claim that it had “stolen” an American research drone, as state media said his diplomatic inexperience could spark a confrontation between the two nations. Beijing’s seizure of the marine probe in international waters in the South China Sea raised already heightened tensions between the world’s two largest military powers. ...

  Warsaw / AFP Polish President Andrzej Duda scrambled on Monday to defuse a political crisis as opposition lawmakers occupied parliament for a fourth day of anti-government protest. The governing rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS) appeared to offer some compromise on controversial proposals to restrict media access in parliament, but a row over a budget vote deemed “illegal” by the ...