International Glance
The former mayor of the city of Iguala in southwestern Mexico has been charged with last year’s kidnapping of 43 students who are feared to have been killed, a top security official said on Tuesday.
The charges come amid intense pressure on Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, to take action in the case. He faces the deepest crisis of his administration over the government’s handling of the investigation, and anger over the case spurred sometimes violent demonstrations around the country late last year. In the U.S., activists called on President Barack Obama to withdraw support for Peña Nieto and criticized him for not broaching the issue publicly during Peña Nieto's recent visit to the White House.
Charges filed against mayor in kidnapping of 43 students in Mexico
France arrests 54 for defending terror; announces crackdown
France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism, announcing Wednesday that 54 people had been arrested for those offenses since terror attacks left 20 dead in Paris last week, including three gunmen.
The order came as Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue sold out before dawn around Paris, with scuffles at kiosks over dwindling copies of the satirical newspaper that fronted the Prophet Muhammad anew on its cover.
Confusion, pressure around burial of Jewish Paris victims
Amid reports of confusion over the burial of the four Jewish men killed in last week’s Paris terror attack, Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett overturned Tuesday evening the decision to charge the families NIS 50,000 ($12,500) for each burial.
Bennett and Deputy Minister Eli Ben-Dahan announced that the ministry would cover the costs. But the decision came after days of confusion over the funerals, Haaretz reported.
Nigeria's Horror in Paris's Shadow
As many as a million people, joined by 40 world leaders, filled the streets of Paris on Sunday in solidarity after two separate terrorist attacks claimed 17 innocent lives last week. The day before, more than 3,000 miles to the south, a girl believed to be around 10 approached the entrance to a crowded market in Maiduguri, a city of some 1 million in Nigeria's Borno State.
As a security guard inspected her, the girl detonated explosives strapped to her body, killing herself and at least 19 others. Dozens more were injured.
Egyptian judicial official: No legal grounds to detain Mubarak after court ordered retrial
Egyptian authorities have exhausted all legal grounds to keep deposed President Hosni Mubarak in detention after an appeals court on Tuesday ordered his retrial in a corruption case, officials said.
The corruption case was the only one still keeping the 86-year-old Mubarak behind bars. The autocratic former president has already been cleared over the killings of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising that toppled him.
U.S. airstrike in Syria may have killed 50 civilians
A U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed at least 50 Syrian civilians late last month when it targeted a headquarters of Islamic State extremists in northern Syria, according to an eyewitness and a Syrian opposition human rights organization.
The civilians were being held in a makeshift jail in the town of Al Bab, close to the Turkish border, when the aircraft struck on the evening of Dec. 28, the witnesses said. The building, called the Al Saraya, a government center, was leveled in the airstrike. It was days before civil defense workers could dig out the victims’ bodies.
Why Benjamin Netanyahu Attended Paris Anti-Terror March Over France's Objections
French President Francois Hollande asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to come to Paris for the march against terror on Sunday, but the Israel premier decided to attend anyway after hearing that political rivals were going to be there, according to an Israeli source who was involved in the contacts between the Elysees Palace and the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. The fact that this message had been conveyed was first reported by Channel 2.
After the French government began to send invitations to world leaders to participate in the rally against terror, Hollande’s national security adviser, Jacques Audibert, contacted his Israeli counterpart, Yossi Cohen, and said that Hollande would prefer that Netanyahu not attend, the source said.
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