NEWS OF THE DAY
From Around the World
_1 Scotland attack: A male suspect stabbed and wounded a police officer before he was shot dead by police in Glasgow on Friday. Authorities are not treating the incident that left five other men wounded as terrorism, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said. The suspect died at a Glasgow hotel that appeared to be largely housing asylumseekers and refugees. The police officer stabbed during the incident was in stable condition. Five men between the ages of 17 and 53 also were hospitalized, Sturgeon said. Steve Johnson, assistant chief constable at Police Scotland, said officers were on the scene within two minutes of the attack. “The incident was quickly contained,” he said.
_2 Soldiers charged: Seven Colombian soldiers have been charged in the rape of a 13yearold Indigenous girl, an announcement that has alarmed many in a nation already grappling with the military’s long record of abuse. The charges brought Thursday accuse six soldiers of participating in the crime and one of being an accomplice. All seven pleaded guilty in an initial closed hearing, according to the attorney general’s office. The girl, a member of the Embera community, had been living with her family in the department of Risaralda, in the western part of the country.
_3 Iraq rockets: Security forces arrested more than a dozen men suspected of a spate of rocket attacks against the U.S. presence in Iraq, the Iraqi military said Friday — the strongest action to date by the new government in Baghdad against perpetrators suspected of ties to Iran. The arrests marked a bold move by the government to crack down on groups that have long been a source of tension for U.S.Iraq relations. Two senior Iraqi officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 14 men who were arrested had ties to an Iranbacked militia group. A series of recent rocket attacks have struck close to U.S. installations inside the Green Zone and an Iraqi army base near the airport in the Iraqi capital. The attacks posed a challenge for Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi, who was sworn in last month.
_4 Influence probe: An Australian state lawmaker was suspended from his party Friday and his home was searched in an investigation of alleged influence by China. Agents searched the Sydney home of Shaoquett Moselmane and also had a warrant for his parliamentary offices, said state Labor leader Jodi McKay. Moselmane has not been charged with any crime. He did not speak about the investigation Friday. In April, he stood down as assistant president of the New South Wales upper house after praising Chinese President Xi Jinping’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Moselmane had taken nine privately funded trips to China since entering the state Parliament in 2009, with disclosure records showing his transport and hospitality costs were often met by China. _5 Leaflets confiscated: South Korea police on Friday raided the office of an activist whose antiNorth Korea leafleting campaign has intensified tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Police said officers entered the Seoul office of Park Sanghak to confiscate leaflets and other materials. Police said that Park will be summoned for an investigation. Park, a North Korean refugee who has sent balloons carrying propaganda leaflets toward North Korea for years, has been in the spotlight after North Korea abruptly used his campaign as a justification for a series of provocative steps against South Korea. Among them was blowing up an empty liaison office built by South Korea on the North’s territory. Park said his leafleting was only aimed at informing North Koreans of the truth about their government.