Egypt

Students stage protests in Cairo

Thousands of students from Egypt's al-Azhar University staged a third day of protests on Monday, security sources said, in one of the boldest challenges to the army since it toppled Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July. The demonstrations demanding Morsi's reinstatement are a delicate matter for the authorities because the administration at al-Azhar, the ancient seat of Sunni Muslim learning, has historically toed the government line.

Russia

Bomb blast kills at least 5

A bomb blast tore through a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Monday, authorities said, killing at least five people in the deadliest such attack outside Russia's volatile North Caucasus region in nearly three years. The explosion also wounded 17 people, seven of whom were in grave condition, a spokesman for the local investigators said.

Reuters-Xinhua

(China Daily 10/22/2013 page12)