Three new leaders selected by Mormons
SALT LAKE CITY – The Mormon church has chosen three new members for a top governing body that sets policy and runs the faith’s business ventures - all from Utah.
The new members of the religion’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are: Ronald A. Rasband, Gary E. Stevenson and Dale G. Renlund. They were announced Saturday during a church conference in Salt Lake City.
The one member of the current board from outside the U.S. remains Dieter F. Uchtdorf, who was born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Germany.
Palestinian kills two, wounds woman, child
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian man fatally stabbed two Israelis and seriously injured a woman and a toddler before he was shot and killed by an officer on duty, police said Saturday.
Jerusalem police chief Moshe Edri said the Palestinian “stabbed an Israeli man, his wife and the toddler” multiple times before stabbing another man.
Both Israeli men died, he said, adding that the mother and the toddler are in serious condition. Israeli media later reported the toddler was lightly injured.
Police Spokeswoman Luba Samri said the attacker took a gun from one of the wounded men and opened fire. He was then shot and killed by an Israeli police officer. Police later identified him as Muhannad Halabi, a 19-year-old from Al Bireh, near Ramallah.
Islamic State claims deadly Baghdad suicide bombings
BAGHDAD – The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings Saturday in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, which killed at least 18 people, according to a monitoring group that tracks Islamic militants.
The claim was posted on Twitter by IS sympathizers and reported by the SITE group, which monitors extremist websites and message boards.
Both bombings targeted Shiite majority neighborhoods in the capital. The larger attack took place in the Kadhimiya neighborhood, where police said a suicide bomber set off his explosives-laden vest at an Iraqi police checkpoint. At least 11 people were killed in the attack, including at least four civilians, while more than 36 people were wounded.
In the second attack, police said a suicide bomber tore through a busy street in Baghdad’s al-Horreya district, killing seven people and wounding 25.
The Associated Press
