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| Air strike kills Islamic State commander in Afghanistan | | | A senior Islamic State commander has been killed by an air strike in eastern Afghanistan, intelligence officials said on Saturday, the fourth high-ranking member of the militant group to be killed in the area in the past week. Hafez Saeed was the leader of Islamic State in the "so-called Khorasan state", according to Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), referring to an old term to describe Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
| Stone-throwing crowd chases Serb leader from Srebrenica ceremony | |  By Daria Sito-Sucic and Maja Zuvela POTOCARI, Bosnia (Reuters) - A crowd throwing bottles and stones chased Serbia's prime minister from a ceremony in Bosnia on Saturday marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, underscoring the depth of anger over Belgrade's continued denial of the crime as genocide. Bodyguards whisked Aleksandar Vucic through angry mourners shouting and booing while a crowd surged up the hill behind the delegation as they ran for their cars. The scene marred a ceremony to commemorate the day that Srebrenica, designated a safe haven protected by Dutch United Nations peacekeepers, fell to Bosnian Serb forces in the closing months of the 1992-95 war.
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| Suicide bomber in burqa kills 14 people in Chad capital | | | By Madjiasra Nako and Moumine Ngarmbassa N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - A man dressed in a woman's burqa blew himself up in the main market in Chad's capital N'Djamena early on Saturday, killing 14 people and injuring 74, a police spokesman said. "Our current count is 15 dead," police spokesman Paul Manga, said, a total which included the suicide bomber. |
| Stone-throwing crowd chases Serb PM from Srebrenica commemoration | | | BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was chased out of a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday by a crowd throwing stones and bottles. It was not clear whether Vucic had left the site altogether, but his delegation was seen running for their cars on a hill above the cemetery. (Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Andrew Heavens) |
| In Los Angeles, Trump speaks out on undocumented immigrants | |  By Phoenix Tso LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump met in Los Angeles on Friday with families whose loved ones were killed by undocumented immigrants, saying U.S. immigration policy has allowed criminals from other countries to find sanctuary in American borders. "People came into the country illegally and killed their children," Trump said at a press conference at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Friday. During his speech, Trump vented about illegal immigrants, claiming that many of the people crossing the border from Mexico are criminals and rapists.
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| One dead, 12 hurt in knife attack at Chinese market | | | A knife-wielding man stabbed a woman to death and injured 12 people in China's southern city of Shenzhen on Saturday, the official news agency Xinhua said, in the latest of a series of attacks that have unnerved the country. The attack by a 32-year-old man appeared to have been provoked by a marital dispute, Xinhua quoted the Southern Metropolitan Daily newspaper as saying. Public sensitivity to knife attacks in China has been heightened by a series of incidents, including a mass stabbing at a train station in March 2014 in the southwestern city of Kunming that left 31 dead. |
| Former Vatican ambassador hospitalised ahead of child abuse trial | |  By Crispian Balmer VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic fell ill and was taken to hospital ahead of the opening of his trial on Saturday for alleged child sex offences, a Vatican official said. Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and "apostolic nuncio", or Vatican ambassador, in Santo Domingo, is accused of paying boys to perform sexual acts, of downloading and buying paedophile material, and offending Christian morality. Under arrest in the tiny Vatican state since last September, Wesolowski complained of feeling ill on Friday and was sent to an Italian intensive care unit, the court heard.
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| PM Modi to meet chief ministers to discuss land bill | |  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet chief ministers next week to discuss a controversial land bill in the latest attempt to break the deadlock over the policy, government officials said. As part of its pro-industry agenda, Modi's government has been determined to push through a land bill that seeks to exempt land purchases for certain industrial, housing and infrastructure projects from requiring the consent of 80 percent of landowners. Modi has asked the panel to submit its report at the beginning of the upcoming session, but the committee has appealed for more time.
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