Man fatally shot by officers in Boston part of terror network

A man who waved a large military knife at officers and is believed to have been radicalized by ISIS was shot and killed by police in Boston on Tuesday, according to officials.

The suspect, identified as Usaama Rahim, 26, was under 24-hour surveillance by anti-terrorism authorities, said FBI Special Agent in Charge Vincent B. Lisi.

Later Tuesday, authorities arrested a second man in connection with the case, CNN affiliate WHDH reported. But that person's name or the charges against him wasn't released. And CNN was unable to confirm the arrest independently.

"As of right now, we don't think there is any concern for public safety," Lisi said.

Rahim was a subject of a terror investigation involving suspected Islamist extremists, law enforcement sources said.

"We believe he was a threat," Boston Police Commissioner Williams Evans said. "He was someone we were watching for quite some time."

Rahim had been under surveillance by the U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force, officials said.

Ibrahim Rahim, an imam at the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, California, earlier posted about his brother's death on social media.

Ibrahim Rahim wrote on Facebook that his brother was shot while at a bus stop on his way to work. He asked for prayers for his brother.

In a 2013 interview with CNN, Ibrahim Rahim voiced his objection to presiding over the funeral of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

"We don't want people looking at us as though we are empathetic in any way to what has happened at the hands of this man and his brother," he said at the time.

Ibrahim Rahim said his brother was on the phone with their father and was shot three times in the back during the confrontation.

In a statement, the Islamic Society of Boston said police have invited Muslim leaders Wednesday to watch surveillance video of the shooting.

"As religious institutions serving the Boston Muslim community, the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) and Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) leadership are saddened to hear of the shooting of Usaama Rahim," the statement said. "This tragedy has yielded many important questions that merit additional attention, and while we cannot expect all questions to be answered ... our hope is that greater clarity and transparency will bring some peace to our congregation and the Boston community at large."

The ISBCC said that it had had a limited relationship with Rahim. A security firm it uses to provide security at the center hired him as a guard for a month in 2013. Rahim did not regularly pray at the center, nor volunteer, nor serve in any leadership position, the center said.

The FBI-led task force had been watching Rahim and two associates believed to be radicalized by ISIS and other extremist influences, according to a law enforcement official. Rahim had been monitored for at least a couple of years. Investigators were talking to the associates, and various locations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island were being searched, officials said.

The FBI noted a recent change in the suspect's behavior, including social media threats against police, which prompted agents to try to approach him Tuesday, according to the official.

Evans said the shooting occurred about 7 a.m. after officers and FBI agents confronted Rahim, who suddenly turned around with a large black knife and lunged at officers and federal agents. The officers had not drawn their weapons at that point.

The officers retreated and ordered the man to put down the weapon before they opened fire, Evans said. The shooting was captured by surveillance video and observed by witnesses.

"Unfortunately, he came at the officers and, you know, they do what they were trained to do and, unfortunately, they had to take a life," Evans said.

Rahim was struck in the torso and abdomen.

A Boston police officer and a federal agent opened fire on the suspect, Evans said.

The shooting is under investigation.

Overturned fuel tanker kills 69 in Southeast Nigeria

Sixty-nine people have been killed and 35 people injured after a fuel tanker crashed into a busy bus stop in Southeast Nigeria.

"There is a likelihood that the number will go up," said Umar Abdou Mairiga, Nigeria's Red Cross coordinator.

The state fire service responded to the accident where 12 buses were destroyed but no major buildings were affected in the city of Onitsha.

The accident comes as Nigeria struggles with a nationwide fuel shortage after fuel industry companies claimed the Nigerian government owed them$1 billion in unpaid bills.

Fuel prices have increased with the shortage, and at accidents such as this, often people run forward to try to siphon as much fuel from the spill in buckets as possible. It is unclear if that was the case this time.

In 2012, over 100 people died as they tried to collect fuel from an overturned tanker that caught fire in nearby Rivers state.

The injured have been taken to area hospitals.

Iran hosts anti-ISIS cartoon competition

Political cartoonists from around the world are flying into Iran, not exactly a bastion of free speech, to take part in a competition featuring anti-ISIS cartoons.

Can this be the same country that hosted a competition for cartoons that questioned the Holocaust?

Well, yes, it can.

And believe it or not, it is possible to criticize ISIS -- the barbaric group also known as ISIL and the Islamic State that is aiming to create a caliphate in the Middle East -- without actually making sense. Some of the cartoons submitted as part of the contest, for example, depict ISIS as a puppet whose strings are pulled by none other than the United States and Israel.

The contest called for cartoons showing "crimes committed by the Islamic State." The winners will be selected on Sunday.

Cartoons submitted from around the world

More than 1,000 drawings from around the world were submitted from places as far-flung as Italy, the UK, Peru and Australia, according to Press TV, an Iranian channel. And 270 were chosen for the competition.

"ISIL tries to associate itself with Islam but in essence has no idea about Islam," Massoud Shojael Tabataii, a graphic artist who is a member of the jury, told Press TV.

Some of the cartoons submitted show ISIS destroying historical artifacts, as the group has done in places like Mosul, in northern Iraq. Others depict the group's attack on a pencil, the tool of cartoonists, as futile. And one drawing showed members of ISIS leaving their hearts and brains at the door.

Exhibition may go to Iraq, Syria

So, how to make sense of a country that calls itself "The Islamic Republic" holding a competition to see who can heap the most ridicule on a group that calls itself "the Islamic State"?

For one thing, Iran is predominately Shiite and ISIS is aggressively Sunni, so the two lie on opposite sides of the theological fault line that divides the Middle East.

And anyone who depicts ISIS as the tool of the United States and Israelis is OK by the Iranians.

Organizers said the exhibition may be taken to Iraq and Syria, two countries where ISIS has seized control of significant amounts of territory.

While many cartoonists were pleased to participate, some of them were apparently a little spooked, as well, and traveled under false names.

Also, if they have cartoons on other topics, the cartoonists might have been well advised to leave them at home. Iran is listed by the Committee to Protect Journalists as one of the 10 most censored countries and one of the 10 biggest jailers of journalists worldwide.

Lion kills woman at South African park

A U.S. woman on a safari outside Johannesburg was attacked and killed by a lion Monday.

Her companion was hurt trying to fight off the animal, but he is expected to survive, according to Scott Simpson, assistant operations manager at Lion Park.

The two were on a self-drive tour when the lion attacked. Their windows were open, Simpson said.

Staff members responded and chased the lion away. Paramedics were also called, but the woman's injuries proved fatal.

Simpson said the lion would be taken to a second property while the park investigates.

The park has had incidents before, all stemming from open windows, he said.

"That's absolutely forbidden at our park," said Simpson. "There are numerous signs, and we hand out slips of paper to all guests warning them to keep their windows closed."

Lion Park, a wildlife center in South Africa's Gauteng province, boasts a variety of animals, including lions, zebras, giraffes and wild dogs.

ISIS kills 34 Iraqi police with explosive-laden tank, officials say

At least 34 Iraqi police officers were killed and at least 48 more wounded Monday when an ISIS fighter drove a tank rigged with explosives into a joint Iraqi security forces base about 28 kilometers (17 miles) southwest of Samarra, two security officials told CNN.

The attack happened at 3 a.m. local time. A medical source at a Balad hospital confirmed the deaths and number of those injured.

Security officials said guards stationed at the base's entrance fired at the tank but couldn't stop it.

The tank shoved aside two Humvees that blocked the entrance just before the ISIS driver detonated the tank. That explosion, near a stack of ammunition, triggered another blast. The commander of an Iraqi brigade is among the wounded, the officials said.

Reinforcements were sent to the area from the Iraqi Federal Police force, which is based near Samarra in north-central Iraq.

lso on Monday, a defense official told CNN the United States has begun deliveries of promised anti-tank weapons to Iraq to help forces combat ISIS' use of heavily armed vehicles.

The United States promised 2,000 AT4s. According to the official, all have now arrived, although the official declined to say exactly where.

Of the 2,000, 1,000 were provided to the government of Iraq. The U.S.-led coalition is taking the unusual step of keeping control of the remainder, which will be used for training "and for contingencies," the official said.

Charges filed in 2013 Bangladesh factory collapse that killed more than 1,000

Bangladesh police charged 42 people Monday in connection with the 2013 collapse of an eight-story garment factory that killed more than 1,000 people.

The building's owner, his parents and dozens of others, including government officials, local politicians and businessmen, face charges in the collapse of Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, Khandakar Abdul Mannan, the public prosecutor of Dhaka Districts, told CNN. The collapse was the worst such accident in Bangladesh's history. It left 1,137 people dead.

The police's Criminal Investigation Department found the building caved in because of faulty construction that violated building codes, police and court officials said.

Charges range from murder to violation of building codes, the prosecutor said.

It took two years to file the charges because, under Bangladesh law, government permission is required before charges can be brought against government officials, police said.

History of deadly accidents

Deadly incidents at factories and other buildings are not new to Bangladesh, but the 2013 collapse was the worst in the country's history. An apparel factory fire on the outskirts of Dhaka killed at least 117 people in November of 2012. Thirteen people were convicted for gross negligence of safety measures. The blaze spurred widespread criticism about the state of workers' rights in Bangladesh.

In the aftermath, the government revamped laws to allow workers to form trade unions without approval from their employers. In addition, every factory that sells within the country was mandated to pledge 5% of its profits towards a workers' welfare fund.

The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, which includes Walmart, Gap, Target, Kohl's and 22 other U.S. and Canadian companies that do business with the country's manufacturers, issued a report in March claiming working conditions in the country's garment industry have been transformed since the 2013 factory collapse, but critics have not been entirely swayed.

In January the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) concluded the government of Bangladesh had made progress but, "There is more work to do, building on the collaboration between the government of Bandladesh, private sector stakeholders, and the International Labor Organization, to address the concerns about factory safety in the apparel sector." said U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman.

President Obama suspended Bangladesh's trade benefits in June 2013 over worker rights. The USTR review found further progress necessary in several key areas of a Bangladesh Action Plan before the U.S. will consider reinstating Bangladesh's trade benefits.

Myanmar must address root causes of migrant crisis

Myanmar must address the root causes of why people are leaving its shores, a top United Nations official said Friday at a summit to find a solution to a crisis that has seen thousands of migrants and refugees stranded at sea in Southeast Asia.

Volker Turk, assistant high commissioner for protection, at the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said that Myanmar has a responsibility to its people, and that the granting of citizenship to stateless people in the country is key.

In response, Myanmar's delegate, Htin Lynn, Special Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, suggested that Turk was "politicizing" the issue by singling out Myanmar as a major cause of the crisis that has dragged on for weeks.

"My dear colleague at UNHCR needs to be better informed," he said. "Finger pointing will not solve anything. It will take us nowhere."

Turk was referring to the Rohingya Muslim minority, a group which endures persecution in Myanmar, and which makes up the majority of those who have fled the country in the past weeks.

Myanmar officials insist that Rohingya are not from Myanmar, and had previously refused to participate in the meetings if the term was used to describe the group.

"It is important to address the reasons that are behind these movements," Turk told CNN on the sidelines of the meeting.

"Some of it is economic deprivation. Some of it is poverty. Some is is the fact that there is no legal status attached to them.

"Obviously all those issues will need to be addressed in order to make sure that people do not take dangerous sea voyages across the seas and see it is very crucial that we work on that collectively and constructively with all governments involved."

Policy of abuse

Rights organization Human Rights Watch agreed that Myanmar must take steps to change its treatment of Rohingya minority Muslims.

"Myanmar is basically trying to deny responsibility for a rights abusing policy that has sent tens of thousands of people out into the region on boats in desperate situations," Phil Robertson, the group's deputy director, Asia division, told CNN at the meeting.

"What we've seen is ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity committed against the Rohingya people in myanmar and the government has held no one accountable for that. Myanmar can contest this issue in the meeting, but the world community knows what's happening in Arakan (Rakhine) State and it has to be addressed."

Cooperation needed

Participants at the Special Meeting on Irregular Migration in the Indian Ocean largely spoke of the necessity for regional and international cooperation in solving the migrant crisis.

The meeting in Bangkok brought together representatives from southeast Asian nations as well as Australia, New Zealand, Afghanistan and Iran, plus delegates from international organizations such as the UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Thai Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister General Tanasak Patimapragorn said that there were three main aims of the one-day meeting: To protect the migrants currently stranded at sea; to prevent and stop human trafficking and people smuggling; and to address the root causes behind irregular migration -- to improve livelihoods for affected communities.

Shared responsibility

All countries, he said, those of origin, transit and destination, along with the international community, had a role to play in curbing irregular migration.

The five countries at the center of the migrant crisis -- Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar -- broadly agreed on the need for regional and international cooperation in reaching solutions for the problem, and agreed that the immediate need is to provide relief for the estimated thousands still stranded at sea.

There was general consensus, also, that the traffickers and people smugglers facilitating the crisis need to be stopped, and the root causes of irregular migration in the region should be addressed.

Perfect storm of migration

William Lacy Swing, Director General of the IOM, said that the region was experiencing a "perfect storm" of migration and told the meeting that his organization advocated a holistic, comprehensive policy.

He urged that the "narrative" of migrants move from "toxic and negative to positive," that migration was "inevitable, necessary and desirable," and that many nations, including the U.S., were "built on backs of migrants and with the minds of migrants."

According to the IOM, an estimated 25,000 Southeast Asian migrants took to the seas in the first three months of 2015.

The UNHCR was encouraged by cooperation in the lead up to the meeting, Turk told the delegates.

At a meeting last week, Indonesia and Malaysia agreed to temporarily accept thousands of migrants, as long as the international community helps to resettle them within one year.

However, the realities of the situation meant that it was "disingenuous" to suggest there is a simple solution to what is a complex problem, Turk said.

"Some can go back... others cannot at this point in time."

Dalai Lama: Support minority Muslims

Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama has called upon Myanmar's opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to take an active role in the crisis by standing up for the persecuted Rohingya minority, the Australian newspaper reports.

As demonstrations in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, protested the international community's perceived bias in favor of the Rohingya minority, the exiled spiritual leader appealed to Burmese Buddhists to "remember the face of the Buddha."

He called on the politician, held until recently under house arrest, to use her influence to help improve the situation of the Rohingya minority.

"It's very sad. In the Burmese case I hope Aung San Suu Kyi, as a Nobel laureate, can do something," he said.

"I mentioned about this problem and she told me she found some difficulties, that things were not simple but very complicated.

"But in spite of that I feel she can do something."