Irish police say that the seven people, four men and three women, were detained on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. The suspects have not been named. Police say that those arrested range in age from their 20s to their 40s. The police say that they have been working closely with law enforcement agencies from Europe and the United States. Few details of the investigation have been made public, but the Irish national broadcaster RTE has reported that it relates to a suspected plot to kill Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.
The governor of Nigeria's central Plateau state has accused the country's military commanders of ignoring warnings of unrest near the city of Jos in which hundreds of people were killed on Sunday. The head of the Christian Association of Nigeria Saidu Dogo accused the security forces of failing to stop the violence.
"We feel that the world just has to do something. If Nigerian government cannot do anything, the world just has to do something to stop this type of killing. That's such a desperate act or tipples of over four hours, and nobody did anything about it, neither the police nor the army, and that's why we become very very worried."
The Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands has announced an independent inquiry to investigate the more than 200 allegations of child abuse by priests in Dutch church schools. Reacting to the claims of sexual abuse in Catholic schools in several European countries, the Vatican said focusing accusations only on the Catholic Church led to a skewed perspective.