News of the Day From Around the World
1 Yemen bombing: A suicide bomber on Sunday detonated his explosives among police officers standing outside a police base in the southern city of Mukalla, killing 25, officials said.
The Islamic State group has been trying to gain a foothold in Yemen, where a war pitting the country’s Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, against President Abed Rabbo Mansour’s government, which is backed by a Saudi-led coalition, has left a security vacuum.
2 Bangladesh arrest: A suspected Muslim militant has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing last month of a gay rights activist and his friend in the capital of Dhaka, police said Sunday.
Munirul Islam, head of a newly formed police counterterrorism unit, said Shihab told police during questioning that he took part in stabbing to death Mannan and his friend Tanay Majumder as ordered by his group’s high command.
Courts have in a single day convicted 152 protesters for breaking a law that effectively bans demonstrations, sentencing them to up to five years in prison in a series of short mass trials.
The cases against the 152 convicted Saturday are rooted in events on April 25, when police stifled planned demonstrations called to protest the government’s surrender to Saudi Arabia of two Red Sea islands under a deal negotiated in near total secrecy.
5 India crash: A truck and an overcrowded motorized rickshaw collided in southern India, killing 16 people, half of them from a single family, police said Sunday.