News of the day from across the globe, June 30
The Italian navy said Wednesday that it has recovered the refugee ship that sank off Sicily last year with an estimated 700 to 800 people aboard in one of the worst known tragedies of the Mediterranean refugee crisis.
Gunmen ambushed army and police patrols in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing eight security forces, officials said Wednesday.
In another incident, two gunmen on a motorcycle attacked an army vehicle in a market on Wednesday, killing the four soldiers and wounding a civilian, military spokesman Khan Wasey said.
Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan province, home to a low-level ethnic separatist insurgency as well as Islamic extremist groups.
Business leaders and government officials say supplies of gasoline, food and other goods are running out in southern Mexico because protesting teachers have blockaded key highways.
Gay men in Ivory Coast say they’ve been assaulted and forced to flee their homes after the U.S. Embassy published a photo of them on its website signing a condolence book for victims of this month’s killings at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
The photo shows the faces of six men with the caption “LGBTI community signing the condolence book.”
The reports said Slipak had abandoned his singing career two years ago to join the fight of Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers against Russia-backed rebels.