Hurricane death toll

THE death toll from Hurricane Dorian has mounted to at least 20, Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said Wednesday.

The deaths were confirmed on the Abaco islands in northern Bahamas and the number was expected to rise further.

Five acquitted

THAILAND’S Criminal Court on Thursday acquitted five ex-Red Shirt members of murder attempt charges with an M79 grenade attack on anti-government protesters over five years ago.

The five former members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, better known as Red Shirt movement, had been arrested on charges of possessing war weapons and firing M79 grenades on protesters led by the People’s Democratic Reform Committee in the Chaeng Wattana road area on Bangkok’s northern outskirts in March 2014.

West Bank visit

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday made a controversial visit to a flashpoint site in the West Bank city of Hebron to mark the killing of Jews there in 1929.

Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited a site holy to both Muslims and to Jews.