Morocco: Three more arrested in suicide bombing

Three people who had been in contact with suicide bombers responsible for a series of deadly attacks in Casablanca have been arrested, authorities said Saturday.

The three were among nine people sought in the investigation of the May 16 bombings, which killed 31 bystanders. Interior Ministry official Yassine Mansouri said the suspects had been in direct contact with the attackers.

Twelve bombers also died.

The death toll in the five nearly simultaneous attacks rose Saturday when a fourth Spaniard died of his injuries, Spain’s Efe news agency reported.

Afghanistan: Demonstrators protest at U.S. Embassy

Angry Afghan demonstrators hurled stones Saturday at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to protest this week’s shooting deaths of three Afghan soldiers by U.S. Marines outside the heavily guarded compound.

Carrying banners saying, “Death to America, Death to (President Hamid) Karzai,” about 80 protesters marched through downtown for several hours. On a street near the embassy, they threw rocks at several passing vehicles belonging to the 5,000-strong international peacekeeping force that patrols the city, shattering windows in at least two of them.

One peacekeeper was treated at a hospital for slight wounds and then released.

Vietnam: 51 people injured in lightning strike

Lightning struck a house in northern Vietnam, injuring 51 people who were inside watching a popular television show, an official said Saturday.

The victims, mostly students aged 8 to 17, were taken to local hospitals in Lang Son province after Thursday’s incident.

Four adults suffered burns, while 10 children were treated for dizziness and headaches, said Hoang Van Thinh of the People’s Committee of Binh Trung village, 105 miles northeast of Hanoi.

The village is not wired for electricity, but one house is powered by a 0.5-kilowatt power generator run by stream water. The lightning struck the generator and sent a current through the 14-inch television set that everyone was gathered around, Thinh said.

South Africa: Baghdad lion cubs to be relocated

Six lion cubs born in the cramped zoo owned by Saddam Hussein’s son Odai will find freedom in the African bush.

The nonprofit SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary has secured the release of the six cubs, their mother and two other lions.

“I am just sorry we could not get all the animals out,” Louise Joubert, founder of the group based in the northern Limpopo Province, told The Associated Press.

American troops rescued the lions in April, along with two cheetahs and a blind bear from a private zoo set up by Odai in one of Baghdad’s presidential palaces, and moved them to the Baghdad municipal zoo.

The lions are scheduled to arrive in South Africa in July and will be taken to SanWild, about 280 miles north of Johannesburg.