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| Two writers and publisher attacked in Bangladesh |
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| Two secular writers and a publisher of a slain blogger were hacked and shot in Dhaka on Saturday, police and witnesses said, the latest in a spate of attacks in Bangladesh on online critics of religious militancy. Three unknown assailants entered the office of a publishing house and attacked the writers and the man who published slain blogger Avijit Roy's book, police official Jamal Uddin said. In February, Islamists radicals killed Roy, 43, a U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi origin and a critic of religious extremism. |
| Romanian nightclub fire kills 27, national mourning declared |
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 By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's government declared a three-day national mourning on Saturday, after an overnight fire in a Bucharest nightclub killed 27 people and injured 184 during a rock concert that featured fireworks used indoors. Officials and witnesses said fireworks were used inside the club, while Colectiv Club's Facebook page advertised pyrotechnic effects at the show. Deputy Interior Minister Raed Arafat said 17 of the 27 dead had yet to be identified and 146 people remained in hospital.
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| Russia opens criminal case after airliner crashes in Egypt - agencies |
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| Russia's top Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against airline Kogalymavia after one of its planes with 224 people aboard crashed in Egypt on Saturday, Russian news agencies said, quoting the committee's spokesman. The Airbus A-321 jet was flying from the Egyptian Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak. RIA news agency reported that the Investigative Committee's case had been brought under an article regulating "violation of rules of flights and preparations for them". |
| China sentences "cult" leader to life in prison amid crackdown - Xinhua |
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| China has sentenced the head of what it calls a cult to life in prison on charges including rape and fraud, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, continuing a crackdown on what it views as dangerous illegal movements. After a probe lasting more than a year, a court in the southern province of Guangdong on Friday sentenced Wu Zeheng, founder and leader of the Buddhist-inspired Huazang Dharma group, and fined him 7.15 million yuan ($1.13 million), Xinhua cited the court as saying. Wu intends to appeal, according to Xinhua. |
| Ruling party hopes for validation as Pakistanis vote in local polls |
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| The opposition, led by international cricket star turned politician Imran Khan, is hoping to build a national coalition that could challenge Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) party at the next general election. Elections are being held in two of Pakistan's four provinces - the central province of Punjab and southern province of Sindh. Pakistan's other two provinces held local elections months ago. |
| Palestinian wielding knife shot dead - Israeli police |
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 Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, police said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating. An Israeli police spokeswoman said that at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank a Palestinian holding a knife ran toward a security officer who called on him to stop. A growing number of visits by religious Jews to the al-Aqsa plaza - Islam's holiest site outside Saudi Arabia and revered in Judaism as the location of two destroyed biblical temples - have stirred Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a "status quo" under which non-Muslim prayer there is banned.
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