Finland: Teen arrested in mall bomb plot

Police arrested a 17-year-old boy Tuesday for allegedly providing information over the Internet about explosives to the suspect in the deadly bombing at a suburban shopping mall.

The teenager, who was not identified, is accused of giving instructions about building a bomb to the suspect, Petri Gerdt, but he was not believed to have been involved in placing the bomb in the mall outside Helsinki, said Detective Chief Supt. Tero Haapala.

Gerdt, 19, died in the blast along with six others. The bomb injured 80 people.

The 17-year-old was being held on a preliminary charge of assisting in a grievous act of destruction, which carries a maximum sentence for a minor of about seven years.

Ivory Coast: Government reclaims key cocoa-belt city

The government said loyalist troops were working Tuesday to wipe out remaining resistance after retaking Daloa, a major city in Ivory Coast’s cocoa belt.

Army spokesman Col. Jules Yao Yao urged residents of Daloa to report any suspected insurgents to the military. The rebels’ capture of the city over the weekend had been a blow to the government and rattled cocoa markets abroad.

The insurgency centers around 750 to 800 ex-soldiers, many of them dismissed from the army for suspected disloyalty. Their uprising has gathered support from Ivorians in the north, who complain the government treats them poorly.

Italy: Shooting rampage leaves eight dead

A gun collector shot and killed his ex-wife and six other relatives and neighbors Tuesday, then turned the gun on himself in the latest in a spate of small-town family slayings that have horrified Italians.

The killings occurred in two adjacent homes on a residential street in Chieri, a suburb of the northwestern industrial city of Turin, said Col. Filippo Ricciarelli of the carabinieri paramilitary police.

Italian news reports identified the assailant as Mauro Antonello, a 40-year-old construction worker, former security guard and gun collector who had an acrimonious breakup two years ago with his wife, Carla Bergamin.

Bergamin, 40, her mother, brother, sister-in-law, as well as two neighbors and a woman who worked in the Bergamin family textile factory were all shot and killed before Antonello took his own life, the reports said.