News of the day from across the globe, Jan. 20
U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers and drones attacked a pair of Islamic State military camps in Libya, seeking to eliminate extremists who had escaped the former Islamic State stronghold of the central coastal city of Sirte, the Pentagon said Thursday.
The strikes were carried out overnight and were authorized by President Obama, marking perhaps the final use of military force by a wartime president who intervened in Libya in 2011 as part of a coalition that ultimately toppled dictator Moammar Khadafy.
2 Deadly crash: A truck loaded with sand collided with a school bus early Thursday, killing at least 24 young children in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said.
At least two dozen other children were injured when the speeding truck collided head-on with the bus, said Javeed Ahmed, the state’s top police official.
Hamas and Israel have fought three wars since the 2007 takeover, resulting in heavy damage to Gaza’s infrastructure, and an Israeli-Egyptian blockade has slowed reconstruction efforts.
Movie theaters, concert venues, exhibition halls and indoor sports settings would be banned from having separate rooms for smokers.
Patients in Germany previously have had to seek special authorization to use the drug and around 1,000 people did so.
[...] a cannabis-growing program is started in Germany, prescriptions will be filled with imported marijuana.
