News of the day from across the globe, April 22
Six bodies have been identified so far from two mass graves unearthed this week in the western city of Ramadi, nearly four months after Iraqi forces routed Islamic State militants from the Anbar provincial capital, officials said Thursday.
Arrested Islamic State militants had led authorities on Tuesday to the mass graves inside the city’s soccer stadium, believed to contain up to 40 bodies.
Israeli police on Thursday confirmed that a 19-year-old Palestinian man carried out a bus bombing in Jerusalem this week, as the Islamic militant group Hamas praised the man as a “martyr” for the attack.
Speaking at the weekly parliamentary session, Berisha accused the government of links to crime gangs and said there is no public order or security.
China’s transformation to a predominantly urban society is key to realizing the government’s goals of boosting consumption and raising living standards amid slowing economic growth.
China’s vast countryside has lagged far behind urban areas in income growth, public services and job creation, prompting millions of Chinese to move to the cities.
The accident was the latest in a series of problems besetting preparations for the Aug. 5-21 Games, which include worries about an outbreak of the Zika virus, political turmoil that threatens to topple President Dilma Rousseff, underwhelming ticket sales and budget cuts amid Brazil’s worst recession in decades.