Russian authorities said that they decided to move jailed punk rock activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova to a different prison, hours after her husband told CNN she had gone back on a hunger strike protesting her "slave labor" conditions, Reuters reported. Tolokonnikova had been serving her sentence at Penal Colony No. 14, which is a prison camp in Mordovia
Transit workers in the Bay Area of California went on strike on Friday for the second time in three months, CNN reported. The strike has shut down the country's fifth-largest train system, and is expected to affect about 400,000 northern California commuters
Marcos Alonso Zea, also known as Ali Zea, who had been living on Long Island in Brentwood New York, was arrested and charged with wanting to join Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and wage a holy war against the foes of Islam, officials said, as reported by The Los Angeles Times. He was also charged with "conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country, attempting to provide material support to terrorists, attempting to provide material support to the Al Qaeda group in Yemen, obstruction and attempted obstruction of justice,"
The U.S. Embassy in Kampala Uganda issued a "red alert," warning of the dangerous possibility of a potential terror attack that may resemble the terror attack at the Westgate mall in Kenya last month
