SRINIGAR, India (AFP) -- Indian paramilitary forces killed four suspected suicide attackers who tried to storm their camp in the disputed Kashmir region early Monday.
The gunmen lobbed grenades and fired automatic weapons outside the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Indian-administered Kashmir before dawn, a spokesman said. "They tried to storm the camp but they were not even allowed to enter the gate," CRPF spokesman Bhuvesh Choudhary told AFP.

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Maiduguri, Nigeria (AFP) -- Torrential rains and wind destroyed 1,000 makeshift homes in northeast Nigeria over the weekend, aggravating conditions for the thousands of people displaced by Boko Haram violence, the United Nations said.
At least 4,300 people have been affected by violent storms that swept the state of Borno, the heart of the eight-year Takfiri insurrection, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM) after assessing conditions in 44 camps for displaced people in the state. "Rains are just beginning and they will last for 3 or 4 months," Henry Kwenin, an emergency coordinator for the IOM told AFP.

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BUDVA, Montenegro (AP) -- Once the Balkan stronghold of pro-Russian sentiments, tiny Montenegro was on Monday silently celebrating its entry into NATO in a historic turn that has made the Kremlin furious.
Despite the Russian anger and a deep split within the nation of some 620,000 people over the issue, Montenegro formally became the 29th member of the Western military alliance at a ceremony in Washington on Monday. Russia has threatened economic and political retaliation, including a campaign to undermine the Montenegrin tourism industry, which relies heavily on Russian visitors.

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NICOSIA (Reuters) -- Peace talks on divided Cyprus are to resume in Geneva this month, the United Nations said Monday, ending a stalemate on procedure which had threatened to derail two years of negotiations.
Talks between Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci had stalled last month in disagreement over the modalities of a conference in Geneva including Britain, Turkey and Greece and which would address security issues on a post-settlement Cyprus. "The leaders and the Secretary-General agreed on the need to reconvene the Conference on Cyprus in June," a statement from the office of United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said.

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SYDNEY (Dispatches) -- Top U.S. and Australian officials warned Monday that battle-hardened and angry foreign fighters may return to Southeast Asia from the Middle East and take up arms in their own countries.
The warning follows the weekend terror attacks in London, which were claimed by Daesh, and comes amid a growing extremist threat in the Philippines. Daesh fighters will "come back with battlefield skills, they'll come back with hardened ideology, they'll come back angry, frustrated, and we need to be very aware of that," Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne said.