World Tuberculosis Day
A patient sits on a bed at a tuberculosis hospital in Gauhati, India, on Saturday, which was World Tuberculosis Day. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign this month to fast-track India’s response to the disease, which is now the world’s leading infectious killer. amount of investigators assigned to it night and day since this occurred.... They will continue at it until we get those answers.”
Watchdog evaluates evidence from Cambridge Analytica
Britain’s information regulator said Saturday it was assessing evidence gathered from a raid on the office of data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, part of an investigation into alleged misuse of personal information by political campaigns and social media companies like Facebook.
More than a dozen investigators from the Information Commissioner’s Office entered the company’s central London office late Friday, shortly after a High Court judge granted a warrant. The investigators were seen leaving the premises early Saturday after spending about seven hours searching the office.
The regulator said it will “consider the evidence before deciding the next steps and coming to any conclusions.” Sticky-bomb blast in Kabul kills 1, wounds 13
A sticky bomb detonated in the Afghan capital Kabul killing one person and wounding 13 others, officials said Saturday.
Wahid Majro, spokesman for the public health ministry, reported the casualty figures of the blast in the Chaman-eHozoori area in the 8th police district of the city.
Nasrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry, said the device went off near a tent set up by members of the Afghan civil society in support of Pashtuns against atrocities in Pakistan.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban and the local affiliate of the Islamic State group have recently stepped up their attack in the capital and other parts of country as well. Pakistani court frees 20 in killing of Christian couple
A Pakistani court has acquitted 20 people suspected of involvement in the lynching
and burning alive of a Christian couple accused of blasphemy in 2014.
Shahzad Masih, 26, and Shama Shahzad, 24, who were brick-factory workers and parents of three, were burned alive in an industrial kiln by a mob incited by accusations that the couple had desecrated the Quran in the town of Kot Radha Kishan.
Police arrested scores of villagers, and a court in November 2016 sentenced five men to death while 10 others were given varying jail terms.
Prosecutor Abdur Rauf said the court Saturday acquitted 20 suspects later indicted in the case.
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan, and a mere allegation often can prompt mob violence.
Firetruck’s I-77 crash kills 2 firefighters
Two volunteer firefighters were killed and three injured when their truck flipped over on the West Virginia Turnpike as they responded to a fatal crash on Interstate 77 Saturday evening, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported, citing
Egypt expels British reporter as media crackdown escalates
Egyptian authorities have arrested a British journalist and expelled her as part of an escalating crackdown on media ahead of this month’s presidential elections.
Saturday’s statement by The Times newspaper in London said that Bel Trew had been detained and faced “sufficiently outlandish” threats before she was expelled in late February.
Thousands of Africans protest Israeli deportation plan
Thousands of African asylum seekers and their local supporters are protesting against an Israeli plan to deport them.
The Israeli government says the migrants have to leave the country for an unnamed African destination in exchange for $3,500 and a plane ticket, or they will be incarcerated indefinitely.
The Africans, nearly all from dictatorial Eritrea and war-torn Sudan, say they feel great appreciation for Israel, coupled with dread over the looming expulsions.
Israel considers the vast majority of the nearly 40,000 migrants to be job seekers and says it has no legal obligation to keep them. Critics have called the government plan unethical and a stain on Israel’s image as a refuge for Jewish migrants.