News of the day from across the globe, Aug. 15
U.N. observers on Tuesday removed the last of more than 8,000 guns once carried by the guerrillas of Colombia’s largest rebel army and collected at 26 demobilization sites around the South American nation under a historic peace deal.
“This puts the country on the path to a new future,” Jean Arnault, head of the United Nations’ mission in Colombia, said at a ceremony where President Juan Manuel Santos put a lock on the final container as leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, looked on.
3 Car attack: A security guard who deliberately rammed his car into a crowded pizzeria in France told investigators he was a suicidal habitual drug user and had consumed “a large quantity” of painkillers the day before the act that killed an adolescent girl, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
After a hotel guest posted a picture of the sign online, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, quickly demanded the closure of the Paradies Arosa, an Alpine establishment in the eastern Swiss city of Arosa, outside Davos.
Israeli government officials also condemned the hotel, describing the sign as “an anti-Semitic act of the worst and ugliest kind.”
The Lebanese army said in a statement that the troops discovered bombs and explosive belts left behind by militants in areas captured on the edge of the Lebanese border town of Arsal.