News Headlines - 27 June 2019
▽Diet session concludes; election set for July 21 - The Japan News
This year’s 150-day regular session of the Diet, ended on Wednesday while the government set a triennial election for the House of Councillors, for July 21.
Both the ruling and opposition parties are now poised to launch full-fledged preparations for the upper house election, with less than a month to go before the crucial political event. The official campaigning period will kick off on July 4.
TUNISIA's capital was rocked by two suicide bomb attacks today, killing a police officer and wounding at least eight other people.
In the first attack, a police patrol car was targeted near the French embassy in the centre of Tunis at around 11am... At the same time as the first attack, a second suicide bomber struck one of the entrances of the headquarters of the government's anti-terrorism brigade, on the outskirts of the city.
▽WWII bomb self-detonates in German field, leaves crater | DW
A loud explosion in a field startled residents in the town of Limburg in western Germany on Sunday. The blast occurred in the middle of the night and was large enough to register a minor tremor of 1.7 on the Richter scale, according to local media.
No injuries were reported, but the mystery explosion left a crater that measured 10 meters (33 feet) wide and 4 meters deep.
Bomb specialists from the state of Hesse determined on Monday with "a probability bordering on certainty" that it was a WWII-era unexploded bomb that caused the blast.
▽Mystery Buyer of Work Attributed to Caravaggio Revealed - The New York Times
The American billionaire hedge fund manager and art collector J. Tomilson Hill is the mysterious buyer of an early 17th-century canvas billed as a rediscovered masterpiece by Caravaggio, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.
The painting, “Judith and Holofernes,” depicts a scene from the Old Testament’s Book of Judith in which a Jewish widow saves her besieged city by tempting and then beheading an Assyrian general.
The unsigned artwork was estimated to sell on Thursday in Toulouse, France, for at least $110 million, the highest auction price ever achieved for any artwork in Europe. But on Tuesday, the auctioneers Marc Labarbe and Eric Turquin announced that the painting had sold to a collector outside France and that the auction had been canceled.
▽Woman, 93, arrested as a dying wish after being ‘good all her life’ | The Guardian
One of the UK’s largest police forces apparently arrested a 93-year-old woman who had committed no crime because it was her “dying wish”... It is not the first incident of its kind. In March, Anne Brokenbrow, 104, had her wish of being arrested granted, after relaying her desire to her Bristol care home.
