AFP, MOGADISHU: Somali police on Monday executed by firing squad a journalist who assassinated colleagues for the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab jihadist group. Hassan Hanafi, sentenced to death last month after military judges said he had confessed to his role in the killing of five journalists, was executed…

AFP, LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron braced for a parliamentary grilling on Monday over his offshore dealings revealed by the Panama Papers leak as he announced plans to criminalise firms whose staff facilitate tax evasion. Cameron was forced to publish his tax returns over the weekend…

AFP, SEOUL: South Korea said Monday a North Korean colonel in charge of spy operations had defected to the South, along with a diplomat and three family members. The army colonel had handled espionage targeting South Korea at the North’s General Bureau of Reconnaissance before arriving in Seoul…

AFP, LIMA: Keiko Fujimori, daughter of an ex-president jailed for massacres, was heading Monday for a runoff vote that could make her Peru’s first female leader. In an election marred by allegations of vote-buying and a day after a guerrilla attack left seven people dead, Fujimori, 40, had a double-digit…

AFP, KOLLAM, India: After scouring six hospitals and three morgues, N.P. Anoop is no closer to finding his father who was caught in a massive blast and…