Iranian artillery was shelled near Iraqi Kurd villages Thursday as Iranian troops clashed with Kurdish guerrillas making an incursion across the border, officials in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan said. It was the third day of shelling in two areas along the border in northern Iraq, a spokesman for the Kurdistan protection forces, or Peshmerga said. Residents of the areas said the bombardment had not caused casualties but had killed farm animals and started a fire on a mountain.
Canada: TB flight sparks lawsuit
Nine people filed a $1.3 million lawsuit Thursday against a globe-trotting tuberculosis patient for possibly exposing them to the disease on a flight from Prague to Montreal. A lawyer filed the motion in Quebec Superior Court on behalf of seven Canadians and two Czech Republic natives. Eight were passengers on the flight with Andrew Speaker and the ninth is a brother of one of the passengers. Speaker, 31, was in Europe when he learned tests showed he had an extremely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB.
Italy: Tour the pope’s dungeon
The dungeon beneath the papal fortress of Castel Sant’Angelo, where popes of old locked up criminals and enemies, will temporarily reopen to the public today after a 10-year closure for restoration work. Through Aug. 26, visitors can take nighttime guided tours of the prison built in the fort’s cellars by Pope Alexander VI in 1503, stepping through darkened cells and an infamous courtroom where death sentences were handed down. Organizers said the brief reopening of the restored prison is part of a summer festival.
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