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March 18, 2019

Israeli rabbi, injured in Palestinian attack, dies

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — An Israeli rabbi died on Monday of wounds from a Palestinian attack a day earlier in the occupied West Bank in which a soldier was killed — an incident that played into Israeli politics three weeks before a national election.The rabbi, Achiad Ettinger, 47, was a father of 12 and a resident of a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. He was shot shortly after the soldier ...

March 18, 2019

Court case: Iran recalls ambassador to Kenya

GENEVA — Iran recalled its ambassador to Kenya because of a court decision upholding sentences for two Iranians in jail, foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Sunday, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency.Iran also lodged a formal complaint with the Kenyan ambassador in Tehran on Saturday because of the Kenyan court decision in the case of Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammed and Sayed Mansour Mousavi.In 2016, a Kenyan judge reduced the ...

March 18, 2019

Boeing 737 crashes put US aviation regulator in a spot

NEW YORK — Was the United States complacent in its certification of the Boeing 737 MAX?That’s a question everyone is asking after Addis Ababa said flight recorded data showed “clear similarities” between last week’s Ethiopian Airlines crash and that of Indonesia’s Lion Air five months earlier.In service since May 2017, the 737 MAX 8, one of several variants of the 737 MAX, has now experienced two deadly tragedies, a scenario ...

March 18, 2019

Rohingya ‘lost generation’ struggle to study in Bangladesh camps

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Sixteen-year-old Kefayat Ullah walked to his school in southern Bangladesh in late January, as he had done most days for the previous six years, to find that — despite being one of the top students in his class — he had been expelled.A government investigation had outed him, along with dozens of his classmates, as a Rohingya refugee, a member of the mostly stateless Muslim minority ...

March 18, 2019

Baby reunited with his father as Indonesia flood death toll hits 79

SENTANI, Indonesia — A baby trapped under rubble after flash flooding destroyed his home in Indonesia has been reunited with his father after the disaster killed the rest of their family, officials said on Monday, as the death toll hit 79.The five-month old was plucked on Sunday from debris inside a house where his mother and siblings were found dead in the hard-hit town of Sentani.The tot has since been ...

March 18, 2019

Poll team to trek miles through forest to reach lone Indian voter

NEW DELHI — A nearly 20-strong team will trek through some of India’s remotest terrain to reach a single voter and collect her ballot in the country’s mammoth elections, an official said on Monday.The huge undertaking through jungles and over hills involving polling officials, porters and police underscores the logistical challenges confronting India as it prepares to hold the world’s largest election.From the Himalayas to the deserts and lush tropics, ...

March 18, 2019

Brexit boost for UK PM May as rebel MP signals support

LONDON — One of the most influential Brexit-backing lawmakers in Prime Minister Theresa May’s party gave the strongest hint to date on Monday that rebels might back her departure deal, saying that a bad exit accord was better than staying in the European Union.May has warned lawmakers that unless they approve her Brexit divorce deal after two crushing defeats, Britain’s exit from the EU could face a long delay which ...

March 18, 2019

South Africa power cuts to continue as state utility battles shortages

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s state utility Eskom will make more power cuts this week as it struggles with capacity shortages that threaten to stymie President Cyril Ramaphosa’s efforts to boost investments and economic growth.Eskom supplies more than 90 percent of the power in South Africa but has suffered repeated faults at its coal-fired power stations, along with low water levels at hydroelectric plants and diesel shortages.Ramaphosa told eNCA television on ...

March 18, 2019

Cliffhanger Thai election sees record turnout for early voting

CHAIYAPHUM, Thailand — More than 2.2 million Thais turned out for early voting — almost 90 percent of those registered — for Thailand’s hotly anticipated national election, as the junta’s main opposition predicted a cliffhanger to the first poll in eight years.The 2011 election had a 55 percent turnout for advanced voting, bringing about 1.4 million early to the ballot box. But enthusiasm is soaring from a public starved of ...

March 18, 2019

New Zealand govt vows tighter gun laws after terror attacks

CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealand will tighten gun laws in the wake of its worst modern-day massacre, the government said on Monday, as it emerged that the white supremacist accused of carrying out the killings at two mosques will represent himself in court.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her coalition was unified on the need to reduce the availability of the kind of weapons used by Brenton Tarrant as he went room ...

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