INDIANA

University says student stabbed because she is Asian

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.>> A 56-year-old woman has been charged after an 18-year-old Indiana University student repeatedly was stabbed in the head on a public bus in an attack the school says was because the victim is Asian.

The victim told investigators she was standing and waiting for the exit doors to open on a Bloomington Transit bus Wednesday afternoon when another passenger began striking her in the head, Bloomington police said in a release.

Bus surveillance footage showed no interaction between the two women prior to the attack.

A witness who also was riding the bus followed the woman’s attacker and contacted police, who later arrested Billie R. Davis of Bloomington. Davis has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery, according to court records.

The victim was treated at a hospital for multiple stab wounds. Her name was not released.

Court documents show Davis said the victim was targeted because of her race, according to WNDU-TV.

Citing court records, WRTV-TV reports that Davis told police she stabbed the woman in the head with a folding knife, because it “would be one less person to blow up our country.”

NEW YORK

Mayor heads to Mexican border

NEW YORK>> Mayor Eric Adams is traveling from New York City to El Paso, Texas, on Saturday to visit the border amid a crisis in which thousands of migrants from Latin America have been bused to the north.

The trip comes one day after Adams said he expected the influx of migrants to cost the city as much as $2 billion — significantly higher than previous estimates. The price tag could be “$1.5 billion to $2 billion,” he told Caribbean Power Jam Radio on Friday.

The costs associated with taking in so many migrants could exacerbate the potential budget shortfall the city is facing, Adams said.

“That money comes from our schools,” Adams said. “It comes from our public safety, our hospitals, our infrastructure.

“Those are our tax dollars that it’s coming from,” he added.

Adams’ office said he was expected to make “stops at and near the U.S. southern border as New York City continues to face an unprecedented influx of asylum-seekers.” He plans to speak to reporters Sunday.

This past spring, the Republican governors of Florida and Texas began sending a surge of people who had crossed the southern border seeking asylum to cities with Democratic elected leaders — New York, Washington, Chicago.

TURKEY

Official says Sweden must address antiterrorism

ISTANBUL>> A top aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey suggested Saturday that it could take more than six months for Sweden to do what is necessary to win the country’s support for its bid to join NATO.

The aide, Ibrahim Kalin, applauded constitutional change that Sweden had made as a step toward meeting Turkish demands, but he said it could take until June for the Nordic nation to put in place the laws necessary for those changes to be implemented.

Joining NATO requires approval by all members, and Turkey has issued extensive demands that it says must be met before it will support the inclusion of Sweden and Finland. i

Egypt

Ancient royal tomb unearthed in Luxor

CAIRO>> Archaeologists unearthed an ancient tomb in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, known for its treasures dating back to the pharaohs, authorities said Saturday.

Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said an Egyptian-British mission found the royal tomb in an ancient site on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor, 400 miles south of Cairo.

He said initial examinations show that the tomb apparently belongs to the 18th Dynasty of Pharaonic Egypt, which spanned from 1550 B.C. to 1292 B.C.

The tomb is the latest in a series of ancient discoveries Egypt has touted in recent years in hopes of attracting more tourists. Egypt has been trying to revive its tourism sector, a major source of foreign currency. The sector is heavily reliant on the country’s ancient treasures.

ISRAEL

Thousands protest Netanyahu’s plans to limit courts

Tens of thousands of Israelis on Saturday protested in Tel Aviv against the new right-wing government’s plans to fundamentally overhaul the judicial system, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to weaken the country’s democratic institutions weeks after returning to power.

The protest was organized by activists and backed by the leaders of Israel’s centrist and left-wing opposition parties. The Israeli media estimated a turnout of 80,000.

— Denver Post wire services