A suicide bombing at a gathering of clerics in
Kabul leaves seven people dead. The religious gathering had earlier issued a
fatwa against suicide bombings.
(Time)
The U.S. Supreme Court dismisses a lower court's ruling allowing a teenage immigrant woman access to abortion, and a government request to discipline
ACLU lawyers representing this woman.
(The Washington Post)
The Peruvian Prosecutor's Office finds the skeletal remains of 18 people, who are suspected to have been victims of torture, extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances committed in the Madre Mía military base, in the
Huánuco Department. This and other alleged massacres happened during the 80s and 90s government crackdown on the
Shining Path terrorist organization. The case involves former president
Ollanta Humala, who was in command of the base during that time.
(Diario Correo)(BBC News)(RPP Noticias)
According to multiple sources,
North Korea has fired its top three military officials and replaced them with younger loyalists. One of the three new appointees, general
Ri Yong-gil, was inaccurately "reported" in 2016 as having been executed.
(WTVA)(BBC)