Mexicans protest over alleged rape of teens

Women demonstrate to demand justice for two teenage girls that local media reported were apparently raped by policemen in Monterrey, Mexico, on Friday. The first case involves a 17-year-old girl who said four policemen raped her in their patrol car in Azcapotzalco in the Mexican capital’s north on August 3. SD-Agencies

63 killed, 182 wounded in Kabul wedding blast

A suicide-bomb blast ripped through a wedding party on a busy Saturday night in Afghanistan’s capital, leaving at least 63 dead and almost 200 injured.

The Taliban denied responsibility for the blast at a western Kabul wedding hall, in a minority Shiite neighborhood, packed with more than 1,000 people celebrating a marriage.

Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi said the attacker set off explosives among the wedding participants. He later said 63 people had died and 182 were wounded in the attack.

Philadelphia shooting suspect in custody

A suspect was taken into custody on early Thursday after a seven-hour armed standoff at a U.S. Philadelphia home in which six police officers were wounded in a barrage* of bullets.

The gunman had barricaded* himself inside the home as police urged him to surrender. Media reported he was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and several handguns.

Police moved in about five hours into the standoff that began after the gunman opened fire on officers as they served a drug warrant.

Parliament building torched in Papua riots

Riots broke out and a local parliament building was torched in Indonesia’s Papua on Monday, as thousands protested against the weekend detention of pro-independence student activists.

Several thousand protesters took to the streets of Manokwari, the capital of West Papua province, bringing the city of some 130,000 to a standstill.

Some demonstrators also set fire to shops and vehicles, knocked down street signs, and threw rocks at government buildings.

UK teen’s death investigated in Malaysia

Malaysian doctors conducted an autopsy* on August 14 to determine the cause of death of a 15-year-old London teen whose naked body was found nine days after she mysteriously disappeared from a nature resort.

Nora Anne Quoirin’s body was discovered on August 13 beside a small stream about 2.5 kilometers from the Dusun eco-resort in southern Negeri Sembilan state, where she went missing on August 4.

Epstein death: 2 guards slept through checks

The two staff members who were guarding the jail unit where Jeffrey Epstein apparently killed himself fell asleep and failed to check on him for about three hours, then falsified records to cover up their mistake, according to several law enforcement.

Those disclosures came on August 13 as the two employees were placed on administrative leave and the warden of the jail, the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, was temporarily reassigned.(SD-Agencies)