A federal judge has issued an injunction against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his department, blocking his agecy from conducting immigration sweeps and using race. His practices have been controversial for residents in Arizona, and has been widely discussed on social media.
A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy Parisian commercial district on Saturday, the Associated Press reported. The government said it was determining whether this attack had any links to the British soldier who was killed on a London street earlier in the week by suspected Islamic terrorists.
The Taliban launched a large-scale attack involving the United Nations in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan, which sparked a five-hour battle with security forces. An Afghan police officer was killed and 10 others were wounded during the attack, which began with suicide car bomb outside a compound used by the International Organization for Migration, (IOM), Afghan police said. IOM is affiliated with the UN in Afghanistan.
A 15-year-old Utah boy was arrested in connection with killing his two younger adopted brothers, who were aged 4 and 10. He apparently stabbed to death in their home while their mother was out at a musical recital, authorities said on Thursday. The unidentified teenager is being held at the Farmington Bay Youth Detention Center.
