NEW ZEALAND A man suspected of killing two unemployment-office workers and critically injuring a third was taken into custody yesterday following a manhunt that lasted seven hours and kept a town on edge.
NORTH KOREA fired another short-range projectile into the sea yesterday, a Seoul official said, in the country’s latest weapons test made three days after it cancelled a plan to send cheerleaders to the upcoming Asian Games in the South. The projectile flew about 220 kilometers before landing in waters off the North’s east coast, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said speaking on condition of anonymity, citing department rules.
NORTH KOREA gave foreign media access yesterday to three detained Americans who said they have been able to contact their families and called for Washington to send a high-ranking representative to negotiate for their freedom. Jeffrey Fowle and Mathew Miller said they expect to face trial within a month. But they said they do not know what punishment they could face or what the specific charges against them are. Kenneth Bae, who already is serving a 15-year term, said his health has deteriorated at the labor camp where he works eight hours a day.
PAKISTAN Anti-government protesters stormed the state TV building yesterday, forcing the channel briefly off the air as they clashed with police and pushed further into a sprawling government complex in the capital, Islamabad, in an effort to reach the prime minister’s residence. The violence is the latest in the turmoil roiling Pakistan, where anti-government cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan have been leading twin protests since mid-August calling on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign.
AUSTRALIA ratchets up sanctions against Russia in line with the United States and European Union in response to Russian soldiers openly violating Ukraine sovereignty. Prime Minister Tony Abbott accused Russia of “brazenly” trying to break eastern Ukraine away from the rest of the country. More on p14
LIBYA An Islamist-allied militia group in control of Libya’s capital now guards the U.S. Embassy and its residential compound, a commander said Sunday, as onlookers toured the abandoned homes of diplomats who fled the country more than a month ago.
SENEGAL The effort to contain Ebola in Senegal is “a top priority emergency,” says the World Health Organization, as the government continues tracing everyone who came in contact with a Guinean student who has tested positive for the deadly disease in the capital, Dakar. Senegal faces an “urgent need” for support and supplies including hygiene kits and personal protective equipment for health workers, says the WHO.
ISRAEL’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said the decision to appropriate about 1,000 acres of West Bank land, criticized by Palestinians and the U.S., was a response to the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the area in June. The Defense Ministry Sunday declared the area south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem state land, a designation that under Israeli law allows for settlement construction. The Palestinian Authority, U.S. State Department and the U.K. condemned the move as detrimental to the peace process.
UK The parents of a 5-year-old British boy with a severe brain tumor they took abroad against doctors’ advice were at a Madrid courthouse awaiting the start of proceedings yesterday on whether to extradite them to the U.K. Ashya King’s parents, who are also British, were arrested Sunday in southeastern Spain after a European arrest warrant was issued by Interpol at the request of British police. Their son is receiving medical treatment for a brain tumor, and after his parents’ arrest he was admitted to a Spanish hospital.
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