Pope Francis urges ethnic
Hungarians and Romanians to mend their differences toward a peaceful existence in one country.
(Reuters)
Business and economics
Chinese authorities begin an investigation into
American multinational courier delivery services company
FedEx for allegedly undermining the rights of Chinese clients. The investigation stems from allegations by Chinese telecommunications company Huawei that FedEx attempted to divert the shipping route of its packages without the company's prior authorization which in turn has been denied by FedEx.
(CNBC)
Disasters and accidents
Twenty-nine people are injured in a fire at a center used as temporary accommodation for about 500 migrants in the northwestern
Bosnian town of
Velika Kladusa.
(Reuters)
Six earthquakes, the first 5.3
Mw, in a two-hour period near
Korçë in southeastern
Albania injure four people and damage around 100 houses.
(Reuters)
Cruise ship
MSC Opera collides with a riverboat and the quayside at
Venice, Italy: four people are injured, none seriously. The incident leads to renewed demands to ban large cruise ships from the
Lagoon of Venice.
(BBC News)
Dozens of masked protesters set fire to the
U.S. Embassy in downtown
Tegucigalpa, amid a second day of mass anti-government protests in
Honduras.
(Reuters)
Shots fired by "regular forces" near the site of a sit-in protest in
Khartoum kill one person and wound 10 others, according to the Central Committee of
Sudanese Doctors. The gunfire lasted about four hours. This week at least three protesters have been shot dead and eight others injured during protests calling for the generals who replaced deposed President
Omar al-Bashir to hand power to a civilian-led administration.
(Reuters)(Al Jazeera)
Andy Ruiz Jr. defeats
Anthony Joshua by knockout in the seventh round to become IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight champion of the world in what has been described as one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight boxing history.
(Sky News)