Brazilian police look into assault
SAO PAULO — Police are investigating the alleged assault of an American woman visiting the Brazilian World Cup host city of Cuiaba, but a medical examiner’s report said Saturday there were no indications that she was raped. A Cuiaba Police Department statement said a 24-year-old woman told them she was attacked Friday night after the Chile-Australia match. She told police she was sleeping in the house of someone she met in a party held to celebrate Chile’s victory when she awoke with a man on top of her. Her screams woke up her boyfriend, who was sleeping nearby, and scared away the alleged assailant. Police said the woman was treated at a local hospital and was in the care of representatives of the U.S. Embassy.
Hundreds of migrants rescued •ROME — The Italian coast guard and navy have rescued more than 300 migrants whose boats ran into trouble in the Mediterranean Sea and recovered the bodies of 10 migrants whose dinghy had overturned. Naval official Salvatore Scimone said 39 survivors on Saturday had grabbed onto the dinghy until rescuers plucked them to safety aboard another boat. He said he feared that an undetermined number of others were missing in the sea north of Libya.
Airstrikes kill about 100 in Pakistan •ISLAMABAD — Pakistani intelligence officials say that airstrikes overnight in the northwestern tribal regions bordering Afghanistan have killed as many as 100 militants.
Two intelligence officials said Sunday that the airstrikes by the Pakistani military targeted eight militant hideouts in the North Waziristan tribal area.
The officials did not want to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The information could not be independently verified.
Drone attack kills five •SANAA, Yemen — A suspected U.S. drone in Yemen’s south targeted a car carrying al-Qaeda militants Saturday, killing all five passengers, Yemeni security officials said. The officials said the attack took place in a mountainous area in al-Saied in the southern Shabwa province. One of those killed in the attack was a suspected al-Qaeda leader named Musaad al-Habashi, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
Chinese politician investigated for corruption •BEIJING — Chinese authorities said Saturday that they are investigating a senior national politician for alleged violations of Communist Party rules and the country’s laws, as Beijing shows no easing in its efforts to find and punish corrupt officials.
Su Rong, vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, is the highest-ranking official to come under investigation under President Xi Jinping, who has vowed to fight corruption.
France expels Tunisian •PARIS — France has expelled a 28-year-old Tunisian it accuses of running a jihadi recruitment ring which is sending fighters to Syria. An Interior Ministry statement Saturday says the unidentified Tunisian was sent back to Tunisia on Thursday “in view of the threat his presence constituted for public security and the safety of the state.”
The ministry says the man had “played a central role” in the jihadi recruitment ring in the Grenoble area.
Bomb rocks Syrian town •BEIRUT — A strong explosion struck a weapons market in an eastern Syrian town near the border with Iraq on Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding many others, state media and activists said. The explosion in the eastern town of Mayadeen came amid heavy fighting in the coastal province of Latakia and the southern region of Daraa, where opposition fighters captured an army post on a hill overlooking wide areas in the province where the anti-government uprising started more than three years ago.
