Reuters, Milan
Italy’s coast guard said on Saturday it had picked up at sea 1,348 migrants in 11 rescue operations between Sicily and North Africa, bringing the total number of people saved over the past three days to more than 3,000.
Two thousand people were rescued on Thursday when the coast guard coordinated operations involving migrants traveling on 15 different boats.
Hundreds escape besieged IS Syria stronghold
AFP, Beirut
Hundreds of civilians escaped a besieged jihadist bastion in north Syria on Sunday helped by a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance surrounding the town, a monitor said.
Tens of thousands had been trapped inside Manbij after the alliance encircled the transit town on Friday in a major blow to the Islamic State group controlling it.
“Around 600 civilians fled on foot towards areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance south of the town,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
3 injured in explosion at Shanghai’s airport
AP, Beijing
A small explosion at a check-in area of Shanghai’s Pudong airport injured three people Sunday, Chinese authorities said.
The blast at China’s second-busiest airport occurred around 2:20 p.m. and appeared to have been caused by some sort of homemade explosive, the airport’s management said on its verified microblog account. It said the three injured people were taken to a hospital but gave no word about their condition. There was no disruption to flights in or out of the airport, the management said.
3 Islamist attack suspects detained
Reuters, Almaty
Kazakh security forces detained three men on Sunday suspected of being Islamist militants linked to deadly attacks a week earlier in the city of Akrobe, the National Security Committee said.
Everyone linked to the June 5 attacks had now been detained or neutralized, it added, without going into further detail. At least 25 people including 18 attackers died during the assaults on a national guard base and firearms shops, and in the subsequent manhunt.
