A roadside bomb in Syria kills one British and one U.S. soldier and injures five more coalition personnel. It is the first death of a British soldier fighting ISIL. (The Telegraph)
On Land Day, the start of a planned six-week protest at the Israeli-Gazan border involving tens of thousands of Palestinians, Israeli forces kill 16 Palestinians and wound over 1,100 others as tens of thousands of protestors approach the border fence. (The Times of Israel), (Reuters)
In the latest in a series of raids, Italian authorities detain 19-year-old Ilyass Hadouz in Fossano on suspicion of pro-ISIL extremism. (Euronews)
National counter-terror prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho states that an estimated 50 people have returned to Italy after fighting with the Islamic State. (ANSA)
A United States court jury in Florida finds the widow of Omar Mateen not guilty of assisting her husband in the June 2016 attack that killed 49 people. (CNN)
Police in Germany announce that earlier this week they detained four Syrian nationals on suspicion of arson and attempted murder over a TurkishMuslim mosque firebombing in Ulm. Police say the attack "may have been politically motivated". (The Local)
An overloaded bus carrying migrants from Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan crashes into a light pole on the Igdir-Kars highway in Turkey and catches fire. A second bus hits some of the ejected passengers, killing at least 17 people and wounding 36 others. (The Times of Israel)
An overloaded bus explodes a tyre and crashes near Bhanjyang, Nepal, killing at least two people and wounding dozens of others. A riot follows. (ABC)
The government of Russia declares a state of emergency in Volokolamsk over toxic hydrogen sulphide fumes leaking from a dump at at least ten times permitted concentrations. (BBC)
Mexican federal police and migration agents find 136 migrants in a locked truck abandoned near a freeway in Veracruz. Without water or food, the people from the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, including dozens of minors, were en route to the United States. (Reuters)
U.S. sportswear brand Under Armour states that the personal details (including user names, email addresses and scrambled passwords) of about 150 million users of the MyFitnessPal application were compromised in one of the biggest hacks in history. (The Guardian)
The Lansing, Michigan, Catholic Diocese's insurance company files a civil suit against Rev. Jonathan Wehrle, former pastor of St. Martha's Catholic Church in Okemos, a Lansing suburb, for the embezzlement of more than $5 million from his parish. Wehrle already faces six criminal counts for using embezzled funds to pay for home construction (appraised for much more than a $1 million), maintenance, and purchases. (Lansing State Journal), (AP via ABC News), (Lansing State Journal²)