News of the day from across the globe, Aug. 5
Hurricane Earl deteriorated to a weak tropical storm Thursday as it passed over northern Guatemala en route to southern Mexico.
Aid agencies say they have delivered a month’s worth of food and supplies to more than 75,000 Syrians stuck on Jordan’s sealed border, using cranes to lift bags from the Jordanian side over an earthen barrier along the frontier.
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence on Thursday said it will loan the rarely displayed drawing, titled “Landscape Drawing for Santa Maria Della Nave,” to the Leonardiano Museum for five weeks beginning Aug. 5 2019.
China crackdown: A prominent Chinese lawyer who had taken on sensitive, high-profile cases involving activists and victims of a tainted infant formula scandal was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison on charges of subversion.
State-run media accused him of operating a “criminal syndicate” that masterminded serious illegal activities to incite “social disorder” all in the name of making money.
5 Arrest warrant: A court in Turkey issued a formal warrant Thursday for the arrest of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who the government accuses of being behind the failed July 15 coup that left more than 270 people dead.
The state-run Anadolu news agency said an Istanbul-based court issued the warrant for “ordering the July 15 coup attempt.”
The government says Gulen, a former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, masterminded the failed coup attempt by renegade officers in Turkey’s military and wants him extradited to Turkey.