A roadside bomb in
Syria kills one
British and one
U.S. soldier and injures five more coalition personnel. It is the first death of a British soldier fighting
ISIL.
(The Telegraph)
On
Land Day, the start of a planned six-week protest at the
Israeli-
Gazan border involving tens of thousands of
Palestinians, Israeli forces kill 16 Palestinians and wound over 1,100 others as tens of thousands of protestors approach the border fence.
(The Times of Israel),
(Reuters)
In the latest in a series of raids,
Italian authorities detain 19-year-old Ilyass Hadouz in
Fossano on suspicion of pro-ISIL extremism.
(Euronews)
National counter-terror prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho states that an estimated 50 people have returned to
Italy after fighting with the
Islamic State.
(ANSA)
A United States court jury in
Florida finds the widow of
Omar Mateen not guilty of assisting her husband in the June 2016 attack that killed 49 people.
(CNN)
Police in
Germany announce that earlier this week they detained four
Syrian nationals on suspicion of arson and attempted murder over a
TurkishMuslim mosque firebombing in
Ulm. Police say the attack "may have been
politically motivated".
(The Local)
An overloaded bus carrying migrants from
Iran,
Pakistan, and
Afghanistan crashes into a light pole on the Igdir-Kars highway in
Turkey and catches fire. A second bus hits some of the ejected passengers, killing at least 17 people and wounding 36 others.
(The Times of Israel)
An overloaded bus explodes a tyre and crashes near Bhanjyang,
Nepal, killing at least two people and wounding dozens of others. A riot follows.
(ABC)
The government of
Russia declares a state of emergency in
Volokolamsk over toxic
hydrogen sulphide fumes leaking from a dump at at least ten times permitted concentrations.
(BBC)
Mexican federal police and migration agents find 136 migrants in a locked truck abandoned near a freeway in
Veracruz. Without water or food, the people from the countries of
Honduras,
Guatemala,
El Salvador, and
Nicaragua, including dozens of minors, were en route to the
United States.
(Reuters)
U.S. sportswear brand
Under Armour states that the personal details (including user names, email addresses and scrambled passwords) of about 150 million users of the
MyFitnessPal application were compromised in one of the biggest hacks in history.
(The Guardian)
The
Lansing, Michigan,
Catholic Diocese's insurance company files a civil suit against Rev. Jonathan Wehrle, former pastor of St. Martha's Catholic Church in
Okemos, a Lansing suburb, for the embezzlement of more than $5 million from his parish. Wehrle already faces six criminal counts for using embezzled funds to pay for home construction (appraised for much more than a $1 million), maintenance, and purchases.
(Lansing State Journal),
(AP via ABC News),
(Lansing State Journal²)