U.S. military experts on Monday began training Ukrainian soldiers and special operations forces in the war-torn country, the Pentagon said. 

U.S. troops had already deployed in small numbers to Ukraine to train National Guard forces, but under a plan first announced in July they are now helping regular military units.

The South Sudanese army, loyal to President Salva Kiir, said Monday it had begun withdrawing from the capital Juba ahead of a peace deal deadline agreed with the rebels of former deputy president Riek Machar.

The peace accord, signed on August 26, requires the withdrawal of all military forces within a 25-kilometer (15-mile) radius of the city within 90 days, a period which ends later this week.

Belgium has asked Morocco to share any intelligence it has to help track a key suspect in connection with the Paris attacks, the interior ministry in Rabat said Monday.

A statement said King Philippe made the request in a telephone conversation with Morocco's King Mohamed VI, calling for "close cooperation" in the fields of "intelligence and security."

A "belt that may resemble an explosive belt" was found Monday in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge, sources close to the investigation said, 10 days after attacks in the capital left 130 people dead.

The object was found in a dustbin on Monday afternoon, a police source said, confirming information reported by France Info radio.

Ukraine announced Monday the suspension of goods deliveries to Crimea and threatened a tit-for-tat ban on food imports from Russia as tensions with Moscow flare over the annexed peninsula.

The Ukrainian interior minister also suggested that the government cut off power supplies to the annexed peninsula which declared a state of emergency at the weekend after its main electricity lines from Ukraine were blown up.

Swedish anti-terror prosecutors on Monday charged two men with two decapitations committed in Syria in 2013, as the judge told media the two were allegedly Islamic State members.

"The two men charged in Gothenburg district court are Swedish nationals who went to Syria to fight," chief prosecutor Agnetha Hilding Qvarnstrom said in a statement without providing any details on their identities.

At least five migrants stuck on the Greek-Macedonian border on Monday sewed their lips in protest at not being allowed to continue their journey to Europe, AFP reporters said.

The men, who say they are from Iran and threaten to go on hunger strike, have been camping on the tracks of the railroad between the two countries since Friday.

Four suspected rebels and a soldier were killed in three separate clashes Monday in Indian-administered Kashmir, authorities said. 

Government forces acting on a tip-off trapped three suspected insurgents in an alley and killed them near the town of Ashmuqam, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the main city of Srinagar.

Anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 300 percent in Britain in the week following the coordinated attacks in Paris, according to figures published on Monday.

A "vast and overwhelming majority" of the 115 attacks were against Muslim women and girls aged between 14 and 45 who were wearing traditional Islamic dress, according to the findings reported in The Independent newspaper.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has jailed a Shiite Muslim for 13 years after he posted what it deemed sectarian hate speech on Facebook, officials said Monday, with rights activists condemning the ruling as "extremely concerning."

Saqlain Haidar, 32, who ran a small hotel in Chiniot district south of Islamabad, was also fined 250,000 rupees ($2,300) for "posting hateful material against companions of the Prophet of Islam on Facebook," an official of the Counter Terrorism Department told AFP, requesting anonymity.