Iran exports first oil shipment to Europe
AP, Tehran
Iran says it has exported its first crude oil shipment to Europe since it reached a landmark nuclear deal with world powers, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday.
IRNA quoted Deputy Oil Minister Rokneddin Javadi as saying the shipment was the first in five years and marked “a new chapter” in Iran’s oil industry. He did not elaborate but IRNA said several western tankers have loaded Iran’s oil in recent days.
Curfew imposed in Indian Kashmir
AP, Srinagar
Authorities have imposed a curfew in some parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir amid a general strike called by separatist groups to protest the killing of a teenage boy and a young woman during a protest against Indian rule.
As a result of the strike and curfew, shops, businesses and some government offices were closed Monday and public transport stayed off the roads in the disputed Himalayan region. University examinations were postponed and train services were also suspended.
Car bomb kills two Russian cops
Reuters, Moscow
A car bomb killed two policemen at a traffic checkpoint in Russia’s volatile republic of Dagestan on Monday, local media reported, quoting law enforcement officers, and some security officials blamed a suicide bomber from a local extremist group.
“A suicide terrorist was at the wheel. He blew himself up,” RIA news agency quoted an unnamed Dagestani security source as saying. “According to preliminary data, militants from ‘the southern terrorist group’ were behind the explosion.”
Five Palestinians killed by Israelis
AP, Jerusalem
Five Palestinians, including three teenagers, were killed while attacking Israelis in a string of assaults across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
They were the latest in a wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks that erupted in October and came as US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power visited Israel and the Palestinian territories for talks with leaders from both sides.
In the first incident, two 15-year-olds attacked an Israeli patrol west of the city of Jenin with rocks before firing on soldiers with a rifle, an army statement said.
