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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A restaurant next to the hotel in Burkina Faso that was attacked by al-Qaida has yielded at least 10 bodies and fighting is reported to continuing. It is unclear how many people remain inside the hotel in Ouagadougou (wah-gah-DOO'-goo). Dozens of French forces arrived overnight from neighboring Mali to aid the rescue. One U.S. military member was embedded with French forces.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department says it believes millions of dollars were destroyed in the U.S. bombing of an Islamic State cash stockpile in Mosul, Iraq on Monday. DOD released a 47-second, black-and-white video that begins with an overhead shot of the building which is the militants' main stronghold in Iraq. The facility is then hit with two 2,000-pound bombs. Clouds of paper the Pentagon says is money are seen floating above the bombing site.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The only suspect arrested in a 2014 gunfight on Bourbon Street has been convicted at trial. The shooting in New Orleans left a bystander dead and nine other people wounded. Trung Le was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of 21-year-old Brittany Thomas. Le also was found guilty of attempted manslaughter for firing at a still-unknown second shooter. The defense argued that Le fired in self-defense.
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of mourners gathered for an outdoor service in New York City to say goodbye to a Columbia University student killed in a crash in Honduras. Daniella Moffson and her friends Olivia Varley Erhardt and Abigail Flanagan were killed Wednesday when their bus veered off a steep cliff. The three traveled to Honduras as part of Columbia University's Medical Brigade Program. A dozen more Americans were injured in the crash, which investigators say was caused by a mechanical failure.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American on trial in South Korea on charges he fatally stabbing a South Korean university student at a Seoul Burger King restaurant in 1997 is now awaiting a verdict scheduled for later this month. Prosecutors have requested a 20-year prison sentence at the end of the new trial of Arthur Patterson from California. Patterson, 36, was extradited to Seoul in September, 16 years after he fled to the U.S.
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