News of the Day From Around the World
Iraq bombings: A suicide car bomb ripped through an outdoor market in a Shiite-dominated northeastern district of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, officials said, as government forces deployed across much of the Iraqi capital in preparation for a major military parade later this week.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group.
The Malian government had banned the demonstration of people opposed to a peace accord signed more than a year ago with various armed groups in the north.
The teenage advocate for girls’ education said any returns of the more than 300,000 refugees to neighboring Somalia, which remains in the grip of Islamic extremist attacks by al-Shabab, should be voluntary.
Balloon flight: A 65-year-old Russian adventurer was drifting east across the Australian Outback in a balloon on Tuesday in a bid to set a record for flying solo around the world nonstop.
Fedor Konyukhov launched his 184-foot-tall helium and hot-air balloon at dawn Tuesday from the same field outside Northam in Western Australia state where American adventurer Steve Fossett started his circumnavigation of the globe in 2002.
Austria’s Interior Ministry says the government has drawn up a draft law that would dispossess the owner of the house where Adolf Hitler was born.
The government has sought ownership so it can take measures to lessen its attraction as a shrine for admirers of the Nazi dictator.