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| Saudi Arabia says 47 executed on terror charges, including Shi'ite cleric | | | Saudi Arabia executed 47 people on Saturday for terrorism, mostly suspected al Qaeda members but also a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, Interior Ministry said in a statement broadcast on state television. The conservative Islamic kingdom, which usually executes people by public beheading, detained thousands of militant Islamists after a series of al Qaeda attacks from 2003-06 that killed hundreds, and has convicted hundreds of them. Saudi Arabia's main regional rival, Shi'ite Iran, has warned that executing Nimr "would cost Saudi Arabia dearly". |
| Suicide bomber kills three in Somali capital, police say | | | By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Saturday, killing himself and at least three others, Somali police said. The attacker, dressed in a business suit over a suicide vest, detonated the bomb after entering the Village Restaurant, police said. "So far, three civilians are dead," Major Nur Ali, a senior police officer, told Reuters. This the third time suicide bombers have attacked the restaurant, which is opposite Somalia's National Theater. (Editing by Edith Honan, editing by Larry King) |
| Cars torched outside U.S. consulate in Tijuana -FBI | | | (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mexican authorities are investigating who started a fire outside the U.S. consulate in Tijuana that destroyed four cars, a U.S. official said on Friday. The U.S. consulate in Tijuana, located across the border from San Diego, is one of the busiest in Mexico. A U.S. consulate worker in the border city of Juarez was killed by drug gang gunmen in 2010. |
| Gunmen attack Indian air base in Pathankot, 6 dead | |  By Douglas Busvine and Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Four gunmen and two guards were killed when unidentified militants attacked an Indian Air Force base in Pathankot, Punjab on Saturday in an apparent challenge to attempts to revive a dialogue between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Officials said the gunmen, wearing army fatigues, managed to enter the Pathankot air base before dawn on Saturday.
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| Bill Cosby's wife must testify in civil case against him, judge rules | |  In the same week that comedian Bill Cosby was arrested on sexual assault charges, his wife, Camille Cosby, learned she must testify in a civil case against the entertainer filed by seven women who said he defamed them, court documents said. A federal magistrate judge in Massachusetts on Thursday rejected arguments by Cosby's wife of almost 52 years, who also has been his business manager, that the deposition would represent an "undue burden." The deposition is scheduled for next Wednesday, a week after Bill Cosby, 78, was charged in Pennsylvania in the only criminal case brought against the actor, who has been accused by more than 50 women of sexually abusing them in incidents dating back decades. Cosby is free on $1 million bail, and his lawyer has said the entertainer is not guilty and will not consider a plea bargain.
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| Obama, frustrated by Congress, plans unilateral U.S. gun control steps | |  President Barack Obama, frustrated by Congress' inaction on gun control, will meet with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss ways of reducing gun violence unilaterally through measures that do not require congressional approval. Obama, in his weekly recorded address, said on Friday he has received "too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing." He has repeatedly urged Congress to tighten gun laws. "A few months ago, I directed my team at the White House to look into any new actions I can take to help reduce gun violence," Obama said in the address.
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| Eight killed in Guatemala prison fight -official | | | A fight at an overcrowded Guatemalan prison killed at least eight prisoners and wounded 20, the country's interior minister said on Friday. An altercation between two inmates turned into a battle between rival gangs at the prison in Puerto Barrios, about 185 miles (300 km) northeast of the capital, said Interior Minister Eunice Mendizabal, who arrived at the prison after the incident. Mendizabal said there were nearly 1,000 prisoners in the prison that was designed to hold 400. |
| Two shot dead in Tel Aviv, Israeli Arab named as fugitive suspect | |  By Rami Amichay TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A gunman identified by relatives as a member of Israel's Arab minority killed two people on a bustling thoroughfare in central Tel Aviv on Friday before fleeing, an incident that ramped up tensions after three months of Palestinian street violence. Security camera footage showed the assailant, who appeared to be in his mid-to-late 20s and wore protective eyeglasses and a windbreaker, browsing dried fruit at a health food store on Dizengoff Street. "Large-scale police forces are conducting searches for him." Nati Shakked, owner of the next-door Simta bar where several people were hit while they celebrated a birthday, told Israel's Channel 2 TV: "It was a terrorist attack, without a doubt." Sami Melhem, an Israeli Arab lawyer, said the shooter was a relative of his, whose father, a police volunteer, had come forward to identify him to authorities after the security footage aired.
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