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| Israeli police say they killed Palestinian attempting ramming attack |
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 Israeli border police shot dead a Palestinian woman who tried to ram them with her car in the West Bank on Friday, the police said, as a 12-week surge in street violence showed no sign of abating. A police spokesman said the car accelerated in the direction of the border police officers, who took cover and fired at the vehicle. One Palestinian witness, Suhail Hamed, 39, said the police opened fire when the car was 150 metres (yards) away from them.
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| Bomb attack on Bangladesh mosque kills one, wounds dozen |
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| A bomb attack on a Bangladeshi mosque during Friday prayers killed one person and wounded at least a dozen, police said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Muslim-majority nation. The bombing, which police suspect was a suicide attack, took place at a mosque run by the minority Ahmmadiya Muslim community in Rajshahi in the northwest of the country. "It seems the man carried the bomb and died after the bomb was detonated," police official Motiar Rahman said. |
| Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Sistani calls for the release of Qatari hunters kidnapped in Iraq |
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 Iraq's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for the release of a group of Qatari hunters kidnapped in the south of the country, his representative said on Friday. "We demand that all kidnapped people be released no matter who they are," Ahmed al-Safi said in a sermon in the holy Shi'ite city of Karbala, south of Baghdad, broadcast on state TV. "We condemn the kidnappings for political goals, including the recent kidnapping of a number of hunters who entered the country legally," he said.Iraq's foreign minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari denied on Tuesday that his government had anything to do with the kidnapping.
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| Death sentence for Myanmar men prompts protest at "shameless" Thais |
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 By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Amy Sawitta Lefevre YANGON/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds called for the release of two Myanmar migrant workers in a protest in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, on Friday, a day after a Thai court sentenced the two to death for the 2014 murders of two young British tourists. The court convicted Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun of the brutal murder of Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, on the Thai holiday island of Koh Tao, a case mired in controversy and questions about the police investigation and Thailand's treatment of migrant workers.
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