Bananas thrown at black Italian minister during speech
Italy's first black minister, a target of racist slurs since her appointment in April, has condemned a spectator who threw bananas towards her while she was making a speech at a party rally.
Integration minister Cecile Kyenge, who was born in Democratic Republic of Congo, has angered far-right groups with her campaign to make it easier for immigrants to gain Italian citizenship. Kyenge has faced regular insults since becoming minister, often from other politicians.
Earlier this month a senior parliamentarian in the anti-immigration Northern League party likened her to an orangutan and only apologised after a storm of criticism.
US intends to send two Guantanamo detainees to Algeria
The Obama administration said on Friday it plans to repatriate two inmates to Algeria from the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, resuming the transfer of detainees from the controversial prison for the first time in nearly a year.
The step is the latest by President Barack Obama's administration to show his commitment to closing the prison, which has held dozens of prisoners for more than a decade.
Obama promised to do away with the facility during his 2008 presidential campaign, citing its damage to the US reputation around the world.
Chile cathedral attacked in abortion rights rally
Abortion-rights demonstrators vandalised Chile's main cathedral during a Mass and used pews as barricades during clashes with police.
A group of demonstrators broke off from a largely peaceful protest calling for the legalisation of abortion Thursday night and stormed into the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago, interrupting the homily.
They painted walls with pro-abortion messages, broke ornaments and hauled pews all the way to the Plaza de Armas square in front of cathedral. Police in riot gear rushed to contain them, and arrested at least two people.
Researchers uncover little-known internment camp
Researchers from the University of Idaho have found broken porcelain, old medicine bottles and lost artwork identifying the location of the first internment camp where the US government used people of Japanese ancestry as workforce during World War II.
There are no buildings, signs or markers to indicate what happened at the site 70 years ago but the researchers want to make sure the KooskiaInternment Camp is not forgotten.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, about 120,000 people of Japanese heritage living on the West Coast were sent to internment camps.
Tropical Storm Dorian weakens as it heads toward Cuba
The Christian Science Monitor reports that tropical storm Dorian is slowly losing steam in the central Atlantic Ocean and is expected to weaken to a tropical depression by Sunday afternoon.
According to the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Centre in Miami, Dorian was cantered some 2092km east of Puerto Rico and was moving with a speed of 72km per hour. The storm is moving west at 35kmper hour.
Earlier on Friday, forecasters noted that Dorian was becoming less organised and would encounter drier air and wind shear, which weaken tropical cyclones.
