Witnesses: Israeli soldiers fatally shot an American woman at a West Bank protest

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Two witnesses tell The Associated Press that Israeli soldiers fatally shot an American woman participating in a protest against settlements in the West Bank. The U.S. government confirmed the death of 26-year-old Aysenur Ezgi Eygi but did not say whether she had been shot by Israeli troops. The White House said in a statement it was “deeply disturbed” by the killing and called on Israel to investigate what happened. The Israeli military said it was looking into reports that troops had killed a foreign national in the area of the protest, outside the West Bank town of Beita. Two doctors said Eygi was shot in the head and died at the hospital.

Ruins of a long-sunken Greek village emerge as drought saps a vital reservoir

LAKE MORNOS, Greece (AP) — Water reserves at the artificial Lake Mornos in central Greece have hit their lowest level in 16 years as a drought induced by climate change rampages across much of southern Europe this summer. The lake was created in the late 1970s as the biggest of the four reservoirs supplying drinking water to Greece’s capital, Athens. But now, the receding waters have exposed what’s left of the village of Kallio, sacrificed to create the reservoir. The village’s former inhabitants who moved to higher ground can see the ruins of their old homes rising above the still surface. Officials are hoping for rain but also urging Greeks to start preserving water.

A dormitory fire in Kenya kills 18 students and injures 27

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s deputy president says a fire in a school dormitory has killed 18 students and injured 27 others. Officials say 70 children are unaccounted for. Police say the death toll could rise. They said Friday the cause of the fire Thursday night at Hillside Endarasha Primary school is being investigated. Anxious parents who had been unable to find their children among survivors waited at the school engulfed with grief. School fires are common in Kenyan boarding schools where many students stay because parents believe it gives them more time to study without long commutes. A recent education ministry report said the fires are often caused by arson fueled by drug abuse and overcrowding.

Man sentenced to 9 years in prison following far-right riot at hotel in England

LONDON (AP) — A man who helped fuel a fire outside a hotel housing more than 200 asylum-seekers has been sentenced to nine years in prison, the longest punishment so far handed to those involved in last month’s wave of far-right riots in England. At the sentencing hearing Friday at Sheffield Crown Court in the north of England, painter and decorator Thomas Birley pleaded guilty to the charge of arson with the intent to endanger life at the Holiday Inn Express hotel in nearby Rotherham. Judge Jeremy Richardson told Birley, 27, that his case was “unquestionably” one of the most serious of the dozens he has dealt with in the past month in relation to the rioting outside the hotel on Aug. 4.