2 Britain attack: A senior counterterrorism officer said Monday that investigators have found “no evidence” Westminster attacker Khalid Masood was associated with the Islamic State group or al Qaeda. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said Masood clearly had “an interest in jihad,” but police have no evidence he discussed his attack with others. The attack last week in which Masood used an SUV and knives to kill four people in London “appears to be based on low-sophistication, low-tech, low-cost techniques copied from other attacks,” Basu said in a statement. The main Irish nationalist party, Sinn Fein, triggered power sharing’s collapse in January and withdrew from talks Sunday citing grievances with the British Protestants of the Democratic Unionist Party. French Guiana faced a nationwide strike Monday over crime and economic difficulties, amid protests that have paralyzed the French territory in South America, halted flights and prompted a U.S.