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| Accused Connecticut mobster tied to art heist near death - report | | | A mobster who prosecutors contend knows the whereabouts of paintings stolen from a Boston museum in the largest art heist in U.S. history is near death, according to his lawyer, the Boston Globe reported on Saturday. Robert Gentile, 80, had been scheduled to stand trial last month for selling a loaded firearm to a convicted killer, charges that his attorney contends were the product of a federal sting operation intended to pressure him into leading federal agents to paintings stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. A spokesman for federal prosecutors in Connecticut declined to comment. |
| UAE military vessel damaged in "incident" off coast of Yemen | | | A United Arab Emirates military vessel was damaged in a strategic Red Sea shipping lane off the coast of Yemen on Saturday but there were no injuries to its crew, the UAE military said. Hundreds of Emirati soldiers in a Saudi-led coalition have been fighting Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis who control the capital and training Yemeni troops in the port of Aden to help rebuild a state loyal to exiled president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. "General Command of the Armed Forces said one of its leased vessels suffered an incident in the Bab al-Mandab strait this morning during a return trip from a mission in Aden. |
| Kyrgyz president returns home after treatment | |  BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev returned to the Central Asian nation on Saturday, his office said, after receiving treatment in Russia for suspected heart problems. Atambayev went on a medical leave after suffering chest pains on a flight last month and undergoing an examination in Turkey. His illness followed a public row with several former political allies who oppose his constitutional reform plan. ...
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| Suicide bomber kills one person, wounds three in Yemeni port city | | | A suicide bomber blew himself up near a cinema in the Yemeni port city of Aden on Saturday, killing one person and wounding three others, residents and a local official said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing in Aden's Crater district, which was carried out by an attacker wearing an explosive belt. Islamist militants, including the Islamic State group, have exploited an 18-month civil war between a Saudi-backed exiled Yemeni government and the Houthi movement to carve out influence in southern Yemen, where they have been recruiting new followers and launching attacks on military targets and senior officials. |
| Indians disclose $10 billion in hidden wealth in tax evasion amnesty | |  A government amnesty targeting tax evasion in India has prompted tens of thousands of suspected tax dodgers to disclose nearly $10 billion in undeclared income, the finance minister said on Saturday. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent out about 700,000 notices earlier this year to suspected evaders to coax them to declare hidden income and assets, known as "black money" in India, promising they would not be pursued by authorities if they came clean and paid a penalty. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters the four-month scheme that closed on Friday had led to 64,275 declarations, resulting in a provisional 652.5 billion rupees ($9.8 billion) in undisclosed wealth.
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| Philippine president rejects Hitler label, says it didn't originate from him - spokesman | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte should not be compared to Adolf Hitler, and his reference to the Holocaust was an "oblique deflection" of claims he is a mass murderer, his spokesman said on Saturday, as anger smouldered over his incendiary remarks. Duterte's comments on Friday that he wished to kill millions of drug dealers as part of his anti-narcotics war, and those he made about the deaths of millions of Jews, were "two entirely different things", Ernesto Abella said in one of two statements, which stopped short of an apology. "The president's reference to the slaughter was an oblique deflection of the way he has been pictured as a mass murderer, a Hitler, a label he rejects," Abella said.
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