AP, Quetta
Police in Pakistan say gunmen have killed two Shiites and wounded a third in Quetta, the latest in a recent series of attacks on the religious minority.
Police chief Abdur Razzaq Cheema said both men were local officials in Shiite community organizations.
Cheema said the attackers fled the scene on motorcycles after Sunday’s shooting and that a search is underway.
Ten arrested as US neo-Nazi rally clash with protests
AFP, Washington
Ten people were arrested Saturday when a rally attended by a handful of neo-Nazis was met with hundreds of counter-protesters in a usually quiet Georgia town, local media reported.
Hundreds of police officers were deployed in Newnan, Georgia-around 40 miles (65 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta-ahead of the event organized by the National Socialist Movement, one of the US’s largest neo-Nazi groups.
Dragon boat accident kills 17 in China
AFP, Beijing
Seventeen people were killed Saturday after two dragon boats capsized in southern China, state-run Xinhua news agency said.
Rowers on board the two long, narrow kayak-like boats were practising for a race in Taohua River in the city of Guilin when the accident occurred Saturday afternoon, tipping some 60 people into the water.
20 Indian Americans running for US Congress poll
PTI, Washington
A record number of 20 Indian Americans are running for US Congressional elections this year. Collectively they have raised more than $ 5.5 million, as per latest official figures, with seven of them raising over a million each.
With six months still to go for the November Congressional election, except for Hiral Tipirneni who is running for April 24 special elections in Arizona, the figure of more than USD 15.5 million raised by Indian Americans so far that could be a record in itself for any ethnic community in the US.
15 Hamas men held in West Bank
AP, Jerusalem
The Israeli military says it has arrested 15 Hamas operatives in an overnight West Bank raid.
The military says Sunday those captured are suspected of collaborating with a well-known Hamas operative from Gaza to spread its activities to the West Bank, which is governed by the rival Fatah movement.
Journalist killed as protests flare in Nicaragua
AFP, Managua
A Nicaraguan journalist was shot dead Saturday while filming a confrontation between demonstrators and the police, amid a wave of protests against the government which have left 12 people dead. Miguel Angel Gahona was killed by a suspected sniper in the city of Bluefields, on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, local media reported.
