Molotov cocktail thrower shot dead by police
Raleigh: Officers shot and killed a man who was throwing Molotov cocktails and setting cars on fire near a police station in North Carolina.
The confrontation began after an officer saw a man firebombing vehicles in a parking lot near a district station in Raleigh, some 150 miles north east of Charlotte, at around 1.20pm local time.
The officer called for assistance and three other officers came to help and the man was ordered to stop. He continued to throw Molotov cocktails, ultimately tossing one near an officer.
Multiple officers then discharged their weapons and the man was hit multiple times.
Police then moved the man away from two vehicles that had become engulfed in flames and attempted life-saving efforts. He was rushed by paramedics to a hospital but died. He was not immediately identified.
Jiddah: Saudi Arabia’s octogenarian monarch has undergone medical tests, state-run media reported, just weeks after he had the battery of his pacemaker changed.
The report in the official Saudi Press Agency did not provide further details about King Salman’s condition or the nature of the medical examinations.
It said that the king, 86, was admitted to King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Jiddah.
King Salman has appointed his 36-year-old son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as his successor, though he has also already empowered him to lead day-to-day affairs.
Earlier this year, state media reported that King Salman was admitted to hospital in Riyadh to have the battery of his heart pacemaker replaced.
In 2020, he had surgery to remove his gallbladder after a stint in hospital that revived speculation about the state of his health.
Havana: Crews worked through a second night searching for victims of a hotel explosion that killed at least 27 people in Cuba’s capital and left more than a dozen missing.
The Hotel Saratoga, a luxury 96-room hotel in Old Havana, was finishing renovations when an apparent gas leak produced a massive explosion on Friday.
The Saratoga’s facade was sheared off, burying workers inside and passers-by outside.
The explosion came in the late morning when the streets and plaza in front of the stately hotel would have been full of pedestrians.
The death toll was given on Saturday evening as 27 with 81 people injured.
The dead included four children and a pregnant woman.
Some 37 people remained in hospital, according to the Health Ministry.
A representative of Grupo de Turismo Gaviota SA, which owns the hotel, said 13 of its workers remained missing.
Kabul: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered all Afghan women to wear head-totoe clothing in public.
The hardline move is bound to further erode Taliban relations with an already distrustful international community.
The decree says that women should leave the home only when necessary, and that male relatives would face punishment, starting with a summons and escalating to court hearings and prison, for women’s dress code violations.