DRAMATIC RESCUE IN BANGLADESH

AIRSTRIKES KILL DOZENS IN SYRIA AHEAD OF CEASE- FIRE

Airstrikes killed and wounded dozens in Syria on Saturday hours after the U. S. and Russia reached an agreement on a ceasefire set to begin Monday.

The attacks by Russian warplanes on parts of Aleppo and nearby towns killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens more, the Aleppo Media Center said, according to the Associated Press. The Britain- based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 69.

State news media said insurgents shelled government- held neighborhoods in Aleppo, killing one and wounding others.

The cease- fire reached in Geneva between Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, was scheduled to begin at sundown Monday to coincide with the Muslim holiday Eid al- Adha.

— Bart Jansen

WOULD- BE ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT REAGAN FREED

The man who shot President Reagan has been released from a mental hospital after over 30 years of treatment and rehabilitation, and will live with his elderly mother in suburban Virginia.

John W. Hinckley Jr. was released Saturday morning, the Associated Press and The Washington Post reported, and will live in Williamsburg, Va., which he has visited multiple times for short trips.

Hinckley, now 61, was 25 when he shot Reagan, a Secret Service agent, a District of Columbia officer and James Brady, Reagan’s press secretary. Brady died in 2014 from his injuries. The March 30, 1981, shooting helped galvanize opposition to the easy availability of handguns and led to the creation of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

— Trevor Hughes

SUBJECT OF FAMOUS KISSING PHOTO FROM WWII ERA DIES

The woman at the center of an iconic Times Square photograph taken at the end of World War II has died at age 92 after a bout of pneumonia, her son confirmed to news media outlets Saturday.

Greta Zimmer Friedman, then a 21- year- old dental assistant, was kissed by a sailor on Aug. 14, 1945, during a celebration as news of the Japanese surrender reached home. The photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt was published in Life as “V- J Day in Times Square.” Friedman didn’t know the sailor, George Mendonsa, who grabbed the woman he thought was a nurse and planted a kiss. Her son, Joshua Friedman said she had been living in an assisted- living facility. — Trevor Hughes

A. M. AHAD, AP A volunteer communicates with others on the ground as he helps douse a deadly fire at a packaging factory in the Tongi industrial area outside Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, on Saturday. A boiler exploded, triggering the fire. At least 15 people were...