International

Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has fired his spy chief Murad Muwafi in a major shake-up of military and intelligence ranks extending to the head of the Republican Guard and the governor of North Sinai.

The gunman who shot dead six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he was shot by police, says the FBI.

International peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region said Thursday they have received reports of alleged aerial bombing that forced villagers to flee, adding to an upsurge of violence in the vast region.