A car bomb, targeting an armored vehicle transporting police personnel, explodes close to a bus terminal in the Bağlar district of
Diyarbakır,
Turkey, killing at least seven
police officers and wounding 27 more people, including 13 officers, according to a joint statement by Turkish officials and the police. The attack comes one day before
Turkish Prime MinisterAhmet Davutoğlu's scheduled visit to the city. There has been no claim of responsibility.
CNN points out both
Kurdish rebels and
ISIL militants have claimed similar recent incidents.
(Al Jazeera)(CNN)(AP)(Arab News)
More than 50 heads of state as well as representatives from international organizations attend the annual
Nuclear Security Summit in
Washington, D.C., with the notable exception of
Russia, which declined to attend. The main agenda of the two-day gathering is the discussion of
North Korea and the threat it poses with its
nuclear weapons and the possibility of
ISIS extremists getting a nuclear weapon.
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
A
U.S. official announces that
The Pentagon plans to transfer about a dozen inmates from the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp to at least two countries that have agreed to take them, in the latest move in
Barack Obama’s final push to close the facility. The official declined to name the countries ready to take them in.
(The Guardian)
A
Malaysian court dismisses
Malaysia Airlines's bid to throw out a lawsuit filed by relatives of three people who went missing on Flight 370. The company argued that the disappearance of MH370 on March 8, 2014, occurred before the company came into existence as Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) on September 1, 2015, and therefore has no liability to relatives. The court ruled MAB's liability would be determined in a trial.
(UPI)(Malay Mail)
Venezuela's National Assembly, responding to last month's
Central Bank of Venezuela report that the country experienced a 180.9 percent
inflation increase in 2015, passes legislation, The Law of Bonds for Food and Medicine for Retirees and Pensioners, that could make it easier for pensioners and retirees to pay for food and medicine. The approved bill has been forwarded for
PresidentNicolás Maduro's signature.
(UPI)
Today, thousands of demonstrators gathered in more than 20 states in support of Silva and Rousseff.
(Reuters²)(AP via ABC news)
Brazil sports minister George Hilton resigns and will be replaced on an interim basis by Ricardo Leyser, a senior official in the ministry. Leyser, 45, has worked in the sports ministry since 2003, and has been heavily involved with the
Olympic Games, which will be held in
Rio de Janeiro, August 5-21, 2016.
(The Rio Times)(insidethegames)
A car bomb, targeting an armored vehicle transporting police personnel, explodes close to a bus terminal in the Bağlar district of
Diyarbakır,
Turkey, killing at least seven
police officers and wounding 27 more people, including 13 officers, according to a joint statement by Turkish officials and the police. The attack comes one day before
Turkish Prime MinisterAhmet Davutoğlu's scheduled visit to the city. There has been no claim of responsibility.
CNN points out both
Kurdish rebels and
ISIL militants have claimed similar recent incidents.
(Al Jazeera)(CNN)(AP)(Arab News)
More than 50 heads of state as well as representatives from international organizations attend the annual
Nuclear Security Summit in
Washington, D.C., with the notable exception of
Russia, which declined to attend. The main agenda of the two-day gathering is the discussion of
North Korea and the threat it poses with its
nuclear weapons and the possibility of
ISIS extremists getting a nuclear weapon.
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
A
U.S. official announces that
The Pentagon plans to transfer about a dozen inmates from the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp to at least two countries that have agreed to take them, in the latest move in
Barack Obama’s final push to close the facility. The official declined to name the countries ready to take them in.
(The Guardian)
A
Malaysian court dismisses
Malaysia Airlines's bid to throw out a lawsuit filed by relatives of three people who went missing on Flight 370. The company argued that the disappearance of MH370 on March 8, 2014, occurred before the company came into existence as Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) on September 1, 2015, and therefore has no liability to relatives. The court ruled MAB's liability would be determined in a trial.
(UPI)(Malay Mail)
Venezuela's National Assembly, responding to last month's
Central Bank of Venezuela report that the country experienced a 180.9 percent
inflation increase in 2015, passes legislation, The Law of Bonds for Food and Medicine for Retirees and Pensioners, that could make it easier for pensioners and retirees to pay for food and medicine. The approved bill has been forwarded for
PresidentNicolás Maduro's signature.
(UPI)
Today, thousands of demonstrators gathered in more than 20 states in support of Silva and Rousseff.
(Reuters²)(AP via ABC news)
Brazil sports minister George Hilton resigns and will be replaced on an interim basis by Ricardo Leyser, a senior official in the ministry. Leyser, 45, has worked in the sports ministry since 2003, and has been heavily involved with the
Olympic Games, which will be held in
Rio de Janeiro, August 5-21, 2016.
(The Rio Times)(insidethegames)