Israel's military deploys new checkpoints in its Arab neighborhoods, as well as thousands of border police soldiers to cities and on roads to assist police forces in response to recent
Palestinian stabbing attacks.
(USA Today)(AP via Denver Post)
Taliban insurgents overrun two security checkpoints near
Kandahar in the southern
Helmand Province, killing at least 29 border police officers, according to local officials.
(Star Tribune)
A
SwissBoeing F/A-18 military jet
crashes in
France while on a training mission, injuring the pilot. The Swiss defense ministry has said it did not know what caused the accident.
(Reuters)
A temporary footbridge across the M1 motorway in
Sandton near
Johannesburg,
South Africa, collapses, killing two people and injuring 23. Both carriageways of the motorway remain closed as rescue work continues.
(News24)