A Lebanese judicial source told AFP that a judge in the Beirut port bombing case had ordered the arrest of former Transport Minister Youssef Fiannous in absentia for refusing to attend an interrogation hearing on last year's bombing.
German police, with the help of a foreign intelligence service, have arrested four people, including a 16-year-old Syrian boy, for allegedly attempting to bomb a synagogue in Hagen, German media reported. According to Bild and Der Spiegel, the teenager intended to detonate an improvised explosive device on the day of Kipur, the Jewish holy day.
UN Security Council holds emergency meeting last night in response to North Korean ballistic missile fire Council members issued a statement condemning the firing of two Pyongyang ballistic missiles from a train on Wednesday, calling it a serious threat to neighbors.

The two-day meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization began in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan Focusing on the Afghan crisis is the main agenda of the meeting Ibrahim Raisi, as well as Pakistani leaders, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will attend the meeting in person, as well as Russian, Chinese and Indian leaders.
The US Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations at a Security Council meeting condemned the attacks by Bashar al-Assad's government in Daraa, which resulted in the killing and displacement of civilians and food and medicine shortages. Pressure is used in firearms negotiations