Surabaya attacks: Family of five bomb Indonesia police headquarters
A suicide bombing at a police headquarters in the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Monday was carried out by a family of five riding on two motorbikes, police say.
It came after another family carried out bomb attacks on three churches on Sunday, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
An eight-year-old daughter survived the latest attack, police say.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.
The archipelago, home to 260 million people, has seen a resurgence of Islamist militancy in recent months but the scale of the attacks in Surabaya has raised fresh concerns about the potency of jihadist networks.
Ivanka Trump in Jerusalem for embassy opening as Gaza braces for bloodshed
Israeli army deploys extra combat battalions and snipers at Gaza frontier
Ivanka Trump is in Israel for the inauguration of the US Jerusalem embassy on Monday, as protesters in Gaza prepare for a day of rallies along the frontier that are expected to be met with gunfire.
The US president’s daughter said she was returning “with great joy” to Jerusalem, which Donald Trump has recognised as Israel’s capital to the dismay of Palestinians, who claim part of the holy city as the capital of a future state.
“We look forward to celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary and the bright future ahead,” Ivanka wrote on Instagram ahead of the opening, which will take place on Monday, exactly seven decades since the country declared independence. “We will pray for the boundless potential of the future of the US-Israel alliance, and we will pray for peace.”
In Brazil the wounds of slavery will not heal
Brazil abolished slavery 130 years ago, but its society has failed to deal with the crimes that took place. Many Afro-Brazilians remain trapped in a cycle of violence and slave labor, legacies of Brazil's slave trade.
Evidence of the massive crime remained hidden for a very long time. Before his Italian bride arrived in September 1843, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil ordered the wharf at Rio de Janeiro's old harbor filled in. Between 1774 and 1831, some 700,000 slaves disembarked here, more than any other place in the world. Yet the emperor wanted nothing to do with that fact.
Africans who died during the passage to Brazil were often carried up into the nearby hills, where their bodies were thrown into piles stacked between household refuse and dead cows. In 1996, a family discovered the remnants of this "Cemetery of New Blacks" (Cemeterio dos Pretos Novos) under the foundation of their house. The commemorative site they created is now about to be closed. Brazil's government hasn't given them a penny in years.
Henry Johnson, Harlem soldier and forgotten WWI hero
A century ago, a young African-American soldier singlehandedly fought off a group of German soldiers in the French trenches of the First World War. But his heroism was largely forgotten by an American society ruled by segregation.
In November 1918, the French government’s official gazette, the Journal officiel de la République française, wrote up a list of soldiers who had been mentioned for army honours, including several foreigners. One name stood out: Henry Johnson, an American who “offered a perfect example of bravery and dedication”.
“He was one of two men on the night watch when they were attacked by a group of around a dozen German soldiers. He put one man out of action with a gunshot and seriously injured two others with a knife,” the passage describes. The episode could be straight out of a Hollywood film. The Journal continues, “Although he himself had received three gunshot wounds and injuries from grenades, he still went to the aid of his injured comrade who was captured by the enemy, and continued to fight until the Germans fled”.
Gaza protests: All the latest updates
Israeli forces fire at protesters attempting to cross into Israel, in rally rejecting US embassy move to Jerusalem.
Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip are preparing to cross the highly fortified fence separating the enclave from Israel, as part of the Great March of Return movement.
At least 20 people were wounded on Monday morning when Israel forces fired live ammunition at protesters assembled near the fence, east of Gaza City.
Israeli forces also fired tear gas as tens of thousands of Palestinians arrived to participate in the rally.
Donald Trump is reportedly furious that the US can’t shut down the border
Officials like Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told America the border was in crisis. Trump listened.
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President Donald Trump is screaming mad at his homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, for failing to stop people from coming to the US without papers.
According to reports in the New York Times and Washington Post, Trump went on a half-hour rant at Nielsen during a recent Cabinet meeting — an unusually long tantrum even for him (and one that reportedly made other officials in the room uncomfortable). The Times reported that Nielsen wrote a resignation letter but hadn’t yet decided to submit it; the Post’s reporting says no such letter was drafted.
Trump reportedly blames Nielsen for the fact that, despite the Trump administration’s renewed effort to crack down on families, children, and asylum seekers crossing into the US in the name of ending “catch and release,” 50,000 people without papers came into federal custody at the border in both March and April.
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