Ex-GOP senator, Ohio Guv Voinovich dies
Columbus: Former US Senator George Voinovich, a two-term Ohio Governor, who preached frugality in his personal and public life and occasionally buck-ed the Republican establishment, died on Sunday. He was 79. Voinovich, considered a moderate who opposed the size of President Bush's tax cuts and later questioned Bush's war strategy in Iraq, died peacefully in his sleep, his wife Janet said. He had delivered public remarks at a 25th Slovenian Independence Day event at Cleveland City Hall.
Air strikes kill 21 in Syria's Idlib: monitor
Beirut: Air strikes on a market in Syria's Al-Qaeda-held city of Idlib killed at least 21 civilians including five children on Sunday, a monitor said. It was not clear who carried out the raids on the northwestern provincial capital, which is controlled by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and its allies, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Jordan's Brotherhood to take part in polls
Amman: The Islamic Action Front, the political arm of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, said today it will take part in September parliamentary elections which it had boycotted in 2010 and 2013. The Islamists are Jordan's main opposition group and have considerable grassroots support, but their relations with the authorities have been strained over the demands for political reforms.