Rome / AFP Libyan authorities have warned Italy about an IS cell based in the Milan area with links to one of the extremist group’s battle-hardened veterans, Italian media reported on Sunday. The existence of the network was reportedly revealed by documents seized by Libyan agents after government forces took over an IS headquarters in the city of Sirte earlier …

  Tokyo / AFP Japan will develop a new land-to-sea missile as part of plans to beef up its defence of remote southern islands, as tensions with China increase over the disputed territory, a report said on Sunday. The two countries are locked in a long-running dispute over the uninhabited islets known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in …

  Goma / AFP About 30 civilians have been killed in a massacre in an area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has been shaken by violence since 2014, the army said on Sunday. Suspected rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a partly radical armed group of Ugandan origin, killed “about 30 people” in the town of Beni on …