News of the day from across the globe, July 1
Key U.S. trading partner Malaysia was taken off the blacklist controversially in 2015, soon after the discovery of mass graves of suspected trafficking victims.
Palestinian attack: A Palestinian assailant broke into a home in a West Bank settlement early Thursday and stabbed a 13-year-old Jewish girl to death as she slept in bed, the latest in a nine-month wave of violence that had recently shown signs of tapering off.
The attacker, identified as a 17-year-old high school dropout, was fatally shot by security guards.
Since last September, Palestinians have carried out dozens of stabbing, shooting and vehicular ramming attacks that have killed 33 Israelis and two American tourists.
Tens of thousands of Syrians stranded on the Jordanian border face starvation and dehydration, the aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday, calling for an immediate resumption of aid deliveries that were halted after Jordan sealed the border following a suicide attack.
5 War crimes: A U.N. war crimes court at The Hague, Netherlands, rejected the appeals of two senior Bosnian Serbs against their convictions for playing key roles in a campaign of murder, torture and persecution against Muslims and Croats during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
The U.N. special envoy says Yemen’s warring sides have freed more than 700 prisoners, including more than 50 children, in an apparent goodwill gesture amid peace talks that started two months ago.
Yemen’s war, which has killed an estimated 9,000 people, pits Shiite rebels known as Houthis against the government of President Abed Rabu Mansour Hadi, backed by a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states.