AFP, SRINAGAR: Authorities lifted a curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir after 52 days of lockdown amid deadly violence, but street clashes broke out again Monday between protesters and security forces. Restrictions were lifted throughout most of the tense Kashmir Valley including the main city of…

AFP, BRUSSELS: Several attackers rammed a car through the gates of Belgium’s national crime laboratory on Monday in Brussels and then started a fire in what prosecutors said may have been an attempt to destroy evidence. Five people were arrested nearby and are being questioned, but there is no…

AFP, KARBALA: Attackers armed with suicide vests, rifles and grenades killed 18 people in the Iraqi oasis town of Ain al-Tamer, many of them guests at a wedding party, local officials said Monday. “They were carrying Kalashnikovs, hand grenades. One of them blew himself up and the others were…

AFP, TUNIS, TUNISia: The new Tunisian unity government took office in the birthplace of the Arab Spring Monday, with Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, the country’s youngest-ever leader, facing major economic and security challenges. At 40, Chahed is Tunisia’s youngest premier since independence…

AFP, MAPUTO: A South African hotelier said Monday he had picked up a piece of aircraft wreckage off the Mozambican coast in the latest possible find of debris from the missing MH370 flight. Mozambique’s aviation authorities in Maputo said they had been informed of the discovery, but were yet to…

AFP, SIRTE, Libya: Libya’s pro-government forces on Monday cornered Islamic State group jihadists in their last holdouts in the coastal city of…