A fire at the Mercado Oriental in Managua, Nicaragua, burned more than 60 shops on May 14. No one was seriously injured. 

The large market in the central Ciudad Jardin district is not regulated by any governing body, and stalls and shops are built as needed. Fire officials said they were unable to halt the spread of the fire because shops had been built over or in front of fire hydrants. 

It is estimated that there are 20,000 shops in the market, with more than 100,...

Two Coptic Christian churches, in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria in northern Egypt, were targeted by bombings during the celebration of Palm Sunday on April 9. In the attacks, at least 45 people were killed and dozens more were injured. The Islamist militant group Daesh (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack. 

The Egyptian government declared a 3-month state of emergency after the attacks, giving authorities more power to make arrests.

On April 18, militants...

A man drove a semi truck into pedestrians along Drottninggatan, a popular shopping street in central Stockholm, Sweden, on April 7, killing five people and wounding eight others. A suspicious device was found in the abandoned truck and destroyed. 

The attacker, identified as an Uzbek national who had been denied Swedish residency in December 2016, was arrested a few days later and admitted to the crime. Though no group claimed responsibility for the attack, evidence showed that...