10 | EXPRESS | 03.16.2017 | THURSDAY
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DAMASCUS, SYRIA
At least 30 die as two suicide bombers strike capital Two separate suicide bombers hit Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and spreading fear across Syria’s capital. The first attacker, reportedly dressed in a military uniform, struck inside the Justice Palace. The official news agency, SANA, said another suicide explosion about an hour later struck a restaurant, leading to multiple casualties, mostly women and children. No group claimed responsibility for either attack, but similar attacks in recent weeks were claimed by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. (AP)
CLEVELAND
NETHERLANDS
TECHNOLOGY
911 dispatcher in Tamir Rice case suspended eight days
Dutch prime minister tops his anti-Islam opponent
Twitter accounts hijacked as Turkey’s feuds continue
A 911 dispatcher who took a call that led to a white police officer’s fatal shooting of 12-year-old black boy Tamir Rice outside a recreation center has been suspended for eight days. In a disciplinary letter dated March 10, police chief Calvin Williams found that the 911 operator, Constance Hollinger, violated protocol the day of Rice’s 2014 shooting. The city’s internal disciplinary charges accused Hollinger of failing to tell the dispatcher who sent the officers to the rec center that the person pointing a gun could be a juvenile and that the gun might be a fake. Rice was playing with a pellet gun when he was shot. (AP)
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday claimed a dominating parliamentary election victory over anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, who failed the year’s first litmus test for populism in Europe. The Netherlands’ main exit poll suggested Rutte’s party won 31 seats in the 150-member legislature, 12 more than Wilders’ party, which shared second place with two other parties. Turnout was estimated to have reached 82 percent. Rutte, who for much of the campaign appeared to be racing to keep pace with Wilders, may have profited from the hard line he drew in a recent diplomatic standoff with Turkey. (AP)
Hundreds of Twitter accounts were hacked late Tuesday amid Turkey’s ongoing diplomatic feuding with Germany and the Netherlands. It was not clear how many accounts were taken over, but a slew of them — ranging from those of celebrities to government agencies — tweeted anti-German and anti-Dutch abuse in Turkish. The accounts hacked included those run by Forbes, UNICEF, Duke University and Amnesty International. The hacking was the latest in a campaign of online vandalism that has followed days of escalating tensions between Turkey and its allies in Europe. (AP)
Using DNA from one of his children, Malaysia confirms man killed in airport last month as Kim Jong Nam
Six killed in Maiduguri, Nigeria, as teenage girls detonate explosives
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