AP, Cairo
Amnesty International is urging Sudan’s military rulers to hand over longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for war crimes and genocide linked to the Darfur conflict.
Amnesty’s statement on Friday – just two days before al-Bashir is to go on trial on corruption charges before a Khartoum court – says the former president “has evaded justice for far too long.”
Unexploded WWII bomb found in Kremlin
AFP, Moscow
An unexploded World War II bomb was found in the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow during construction works on Thursday, Russian news agencies reported. “As you know, between 1941 and 1942 the Kremlin was bombed,” Sergei Khlebnikov, the commandant of the Kremlin, told the Ria Novosti agency.
“During construction work, an aviation bomb was found,” he said. The bomb was taken out of the Kremlin complex and will be liquidated, he said. “All measures ensuring the Kremlin’s security have been completed,” he added.
Detained Nigerian cleric leaves Indian hospital
AFP, New Delhi
Nigerian Shiite leader Ibrahim Zakzaky – whose poor health in detention fuelled a wave of violent protests in Abuja – has left a hospital in Gurgaon near Delhi where he arrived for treatment this week, the clinic said Friday, while his office said he was heading home.
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) had been in custody in Nigeria along with his wife Zeenah Ibrahim since their arrest in December 2015 after violence that saw the army kill some 350 of his followers.
Sydney’s water supply falling at record rate
Reuters, Sydney
Australia’s biggest city Sydney is running down its water supply at the fastest rate on record with dams expected to fall below half maximum capacity due to the worst drought on record, the government said on Friday.
Warragamba Dam, the city’s main water supply, was sitting at 51.4% capacity, down 17.8% in a year and little more than half its level just two years earlier. The amount of water flowing into the dam was just 10% of what it was a year ago, according to the New South Wales (NSW) state regulator WaterNSW.
17 missing in SW China landslide
AFP, Beijing
More than a dozen workers remained missing Friday after a landslide in southwest China buried a section of railway that was under repair, according to state media. The 17 missing people were carrying out maintenance work on the track Wednesday when the hill above them gave way, China Daily reported. The landslide in Ganluo county in Sichuan province happened very quickly, a witness told the newspaper.
