An intruder broke into the Washington state Capitol and smashed a glass door, set fire to a rug and flag, and knocked over busts of George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr. before he was taken into custody by state troopers. The man, who has a history of mental health challenges, was booked into Thurston County Jail on suspicion of first-degree burglary, first-degree arson and first-degree malicious mischief, said Chris Loftis, spokesman for the Washington State Patrol. “The suspect’s actions were very purposeful at the Capitol but appears to be an individual experiencing a mental health crisis of some sort,”...

A 30-year-old woman has become the third person to die from methanol poisoning in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, as the authorities investigate the source of the tainted drinks thought to be making people ill. Bruna Araújo de Souza died after consuming a vodka drink at a bar more than a week ago, according to officials in the city of São Bernardo. It comes after health officials announced the deaths of two men. There has been a total of 225 confirmed cases of methanol poisoning in Brazil so far, according to the health ministry’s latest update. Most of these...

 The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law, and criticized a wider “backlash” in some countries against migrants and refugees. Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, used a speech to lament that drastic funding cuts and shortages have forced his agency, UNHCR, to slash nearly 5,000 jobs this year, or nearly a quarter of its workforce. The cuts may not be finished, he said. “This was certainly not an easy year for any of us,” Grandi told the opening of UNHCR’s executive committee....

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Indonesian rescuers wrapped up the search on Tuesday for victims trapped under the rubble of a collapsed Islamic boarding school in the province of East Java, after retrieving more than 60 bodies, disaster authorities said. Grief and confusion gripped the small town of Sidoarjo last week after foundational failures caused the Al Khoziny school to cave in on hundreds of people, mostly teenage boys, while they were at afternoon prayers. Most escaped. The bodies of all 61 people in the building have been found, as well as seven body parts that police are trying to identify, the disaster mitigation agency said in a statement, halting the...

Four people, including a child, died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of an eastern Aegean island on Tuesday, Greece’s coast guard said. A coast guard patrol boat recovered the bodies of two women, a man and a girl from the sea on the southern coast of the island of Lesbos, the coast guard said, adding that a semi-submerged boat was found near a rocky part of the shore nearby. Thirty-four survivors made it to shore on their own and were found by police. A search and rescue operation on land and sea was called off after survivors told...

Madagascar’s embattled President Andry Rajoelina has appointed an army general as the new prime minister in a bid to end youth-led protests against his rule. He said the nation needed a premier “capable of restoring order and the people’s trust” before naming Gen Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo to the post. Coming days after the president expressed fears of a coup attempt, the general’s appointment marks a significant militarisation of the government and appears to be an attempt by Rajoelina to secure the army’s backing at a time of heightened tensions. The protest movement, known as Gen Z Mada, rejected Gen Zafisambo’s...

 Authorities found the body of a missing priest Monday in Mexico’s violence-torn southern state of Guerrero, the same area where a retired bishop who had tried to mediate between local cartels was kidnapped last year. The state prosecutor’s office announced the discovery in a statement identifying the deceased only as Bertoldo N and said they were investigating his death as a homicide. The diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa reported the disappearance of Rev. Bertoldo Pantaleón Estrada on Saturday, and the church where he worked confirmed in a statement late Monday that the body had been identified as the missing priest and thanked...

It was a sad night at a crowded snooker spot opposite Ojo Military Barracks, Lagos, when gunmen invaded it, leaving in its trail deaths and sorrow.