Germany boosts security for Muslim centres in Dresden after mosque bombing

BERLIN Two improvised bombs exploded in the eastern German city of Dresden on Monday evening - one at a mosque and one at an international conference center - but no one was injured, police said on Tuesday.

"Even if we so far have no claim of responsibility, we must go on the basis that the motive was xenophobic," Horst Kretzschmar, president of Dresden police said in a statement.




Islamic State 'dead set' on using chemical arms: Pentagon spokesman


WASHINGTON Islamic State militants are "dead set" on using chemical arms and are likely to try them again as Iraqi forces advance on Mosul, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday, a week after a rocket with a possible chemical agent landed near U.S. troops.




Kerry meets Venezuela's Maduro amid vote tensions


CARTAGENA, Colombia U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday, the first formal encounter between the two since Kerry became the top U.S. diplomat.




Colombia, Marxist rebels sign accord ending 52-year war


CARTAGENA, Colombia Colombia's center-right government and the Marxist FARC rebel group signed a peace deal on Monday to end a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people and once took the Andean country to the brink of collapse.