Puli Alam / AP Taliban gunmen stormed a court complex in a city south of Kabul on Sunday, killing at least seven people in the insurgents’ third so-called “revenge” attack for last month’s execution of Taliban-linked prisoners. The attack in Pul-i-Alam, capital of volatile Logar province, also left 23 prosecutors wounded as they were meeting to decide the fate of …

  London / AFP It’s a snapshot from another political era. Forty-one years ago, in Britain’s last referendum on Europe, Margaret Thatcher hit the campaign trail clad in a woolly jumper emblazoned with a Union flag. But the 1975 poll, which saw Britain embrace membership of what was then the Common Market, has plenty in common with the current bitter and …

  TEHRAN/ AP Iran on Sunday rejected an annual US State Department report that called it the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. State TV quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari as saying the report is “false” and further evidence of the “lack of credibility of reports by the US State Department.” As in many previous years, the report identified …