A Vietnamese national has been extradited to the United States from Britain after being charged with traveling to Yemen to receive training at an al-Qaida camp, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.

Minh Quang Pham, 32, will appear in federal court in New York on Thursday to answer charges of providing support and receiving training from Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a statement said.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will pay a state visit next week to Britain, receiving a lavish royal welcome that may provide some distraction from his domestic troubles.

Pena Nieto will be welcomed Tuesday by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, where he and his wife Angelica Rivera will stay for two nights and be feted with a grand banquet.

Security footage appears to show three British girls, believed to be heading for Syria to join Islamic State (IS) militants, waiting at a bus station in Istanbul before traveling to a Turkish town on the Syrian border, media reported Sunday. 

Close friends Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-olds Shamima Begum and Amira Abase, boarded a flight from London to Istanbul on February 17. 

Zoaiter Vows Freight Improvements at Beirut Airport after Coming under Scrutiny

Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Zoaiter vowed on Friday to improve conditions at Rafik Hariri International Airport after British Airways was ordered by authorities in London to stop cargo movements from the facility.

South Africa has launched an investigation into the leak of espionage secrets to an international television news channel and a British newspaper, the state security minister said Wednesday.

"A full investigation has been launched into the purported leakage," Minister David Mahlobo said in a statement.

Britain will send troops to Ukraine next month to train government forces fighting pro-Russian separatists, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Tuesday, while ruling out sending lethal equipment.

"Over the course of the next month we are going to be deploying British service personnel to provide advice and a range of training, from tactical intelligence to logistics to medical care, which is something else they have asked for," Cameron told a parliamentary committee.

Spies working for Britain's MI5 intelligence agency donned wigs and makeup Tuesday to testify against a Pakistani al-Qaida suspect on trial in New York for allegedly plotting to blow up a British shopping center.

Four surveillance officers, identified by four-digit numbers, detailed how they followed the defendant, Abid Naseer, in March and April 2009 in the cities of Manchester and Liverpool in northern England.

Britain on Monday criticized Russia for failing to enforce the terms of a tattered truce in eastern Ukraine in the face of ongoing attacks by pro-Russian separatists. 

"I have to say from the experience of the last 10 to 12 days, the Russian engagement in the Minsk process is rather cynical," British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in the Estonian capital Tallinn.

The headmaster of a London school attended by three girls believed headed for Syria on Monday called for their return as police briefed staff and students on the threat of radicalization.

Mark Keary, headmaster of east London's Bethnal Green Academy, said the visiting police officers were part of a "support team" from the government's Prevent program called in following the girls' disappearance last week.

British Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher revealed Monday that the United Kingdom is assisting the Lebanese army's land border regiments in order to fend off the threat of Islamic State militants deployed in the border region between Syria and Lebanon.

Fletcher voiced his remarks after talks with Prime Minister Tammam Salam at the Grand Serail.