A temporary reprieve
Highlighted by a reflection, Palestinians wait Saturday to cross the border to the Egyptian side at the Rafah crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip. Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sissi ordered the Rafah crossing point opened for the whole Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
courting evangelical voters. Carter is an evangelical as well, but with moreprogressive views.
The bulk of Carter’s speech emphasized broad themes of human rights and equality.
Doctor sentenced after causing miscarriage
A Washington-area doctor was sentenced to three years in prison for slipping an abortion pill into his pregnant ex-girlfriend’s drink, causing her to miscarry.
Sikander Imran, a former doctor at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, was sentenced Friday after his former girlfriend, Brook Fiske, asked a judge for a more-lenient punishment, ABC affiliate WJLA reported.
Imran was charged last June with premeditated
killing of a fetus of another and illegally causing abortion or miscarriage. Online records show he was also charged in November with assault and altering food, drink and drugs. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to fetal homicide.
Fiske was 17 weeks pregnant when she miscarried.
2 Palestinians die after being shot on Monday
Gaza’s health ministry said two Palestinians died days after they were shot and wounded by Israeli gunfire during border protests.
The ministry said Saturday the two, aged 20 and 58 respectively, had been in critical condition.
The two were shot on Monday, when Israeli troops killed 59 Palestinians in what turned out to be the deadliest day of cross-border violence in recent years.
Gas leak causes plant explosion in Houston
Officials say a gas leak caused an explosion and brief flash fire at a chemical plant near Houston, resulting in non-life threatening injuries to nearly two dozen workers.
Kurary America said ethylene escaping from a safety valve caught fire Saturday at the company’s EVAL plant in Pasadena, where 266 workers were on site.
Ethylene is a gas that is not harmful to humans and is used in the production of plastic.
Japanese film wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
“Shoplifters,” Japanese director Hizokazu Kore-eda’s tender portrait of a poor, improvised family, won the Palme d’Or, the top award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Musician Reggie Lucas won a Grammy during career
Reggie Lucas, the Grammy-winning musician who played with Miles Davis in the 1970s and produced the bulk of Madonna’s debut album, has died. He was 65.
The performer’s daughter, Lisa Lucas, said her father died from heart complications early Saturday in New York City.
Lucas, along with percussionist James Mtume, also wrote hits like Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway’s “The Closer I Get to You” and Stephanie Mills’ “Never Knew Love Like This Before,” which won the duo the Grammy for best R&B song.
Series of explosions leaves several dead
At least eight people were killed and dozens of others wounded in a series of blasts at a cricket match in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
An attack on an Afghan cricket match is highly unusual. The sport has been one of the few rallying points that have brought together supporters of both the government and Taliban militants.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement denying that the group was involved in the attack late Friday on the stadium in the city of Jalalabad.