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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal appeals court in California will consider today whether long and unpredictable delays in carrying out executions in the state amount to cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney had ruled in the case of a Los Angeles rapist and murderer that the state's death penalty was dysfunctional and that very few of those sentenced to death will actually be executed before dying of natural causes. But Attorney General Kamala Harris appealed the ruling.
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Hurricane Ignacio is expected to pass about 200 miles northeast of Hawaii's Big Island and Maui, today and tomorrow. But forecasters say it's likely to weaken to a tropical storm, and the main impact from Ignacio will be high surf.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Austria's decision to start inspecting trucks at its border with Hungary has created a huge, 15 1/2-mile traffic jam on the main Budapest-Vienna highway. The Hungarian traffic firm Utinform says traffic is slower than usual at other Hungary-Austria border crossings as well. The inspections come following the deaths of 71 migrants in a food truck in Austria on the Budapest-Vienna highway. Five suspected human traffickers have been detained.
BAGHDAD (AP) — The mayor of a remote town in western Iraq says some 200 residents are being detained by the Islamic State group after clashes. The mayor says the trouble in Rutbah, in Anbar province, started Saturday when Islamic State militants killed a local resident for killing an IS member. Hundreds of residents demonstrated later on that day to protest the killing and clashes broke out when the militants tried to break up the crowds. Rutbah is an IS-controlled town.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At least 11 people are dead after a large fire broke out in the basement of a sprawling residential complex in Saudi Arabia. The blaze broke out early Sunday morning in a compound that houses workers for state oil giant Saudi Aramco, which oversees petroleum production in the OPEC powerhouse. The Interior Ministry says the victims were of various nationalities.
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