OTTAWA - A terror suspect recently arrested in the United States did not enter that country from Canada, the federal government said Friday. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney suggested the Tunisian-born man, who had been studying in Canada, could not actually have been here when he entered. "When we became aware of security concerns, he was back in Tunisia, and his study permit was not renewed," Kenney told a news conference.

PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande said France was taking seriously the threat from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) after a purported leader of the Islamist group called for attacks on French interests in a video on Tuesday. "We are taking very seriously the threat from AQIM, which this reminds us of," Hollande told a news conference, when asked about the clip in which a bearded man named as Abu Obeida Yusef al-Annabi, a senior AQIM official, calls for attacks on French interests around the world.

Two Tunisian soldiers were wounded Monday when a device exploded in the Mount Chaambi border region during the ongoing hunt for a group of jihadists who have mined the area, a medic said. "Two soldiers were wounded, one of whom lost his leg and the other was hurt in one eye," said a doctor at the hospital in Kasserine, the regional capital just a few kilometres from the theatre of operations.

Bombs exploded at four Sunni mosques in and around Baghdad on Friday, killing four people and wounding 50, an interior ministry official and medics said. The bombers struck after the main weekly prayers as four days of violence that have killed more than 190 people raised fears of a return to all-out sectarian conflict. A bomb exploded inside Al-Kubaisi mosque in south Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 36, while bombs near Al-Shaheed Yusif and Malik al-Ashtar mosques in the north of the capital wounded at least 11, the official and medics said.