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Iraq: Green Zone shelled

BAGHDAD — Suspected militants shelled Baghdad's protected Green Zone on Saturday in the first such bombardment in more than three months.

The back-to-back strikes reverberated across the Tigris River to a popular promenade, sending families packing up from fish restaurants and abruptly halting a party at a club.

The U.S military said the Green Zone was hit by two "indirect fire" rounds — which typically means either rockets or mortars — but there were no casualties or damages reported.

Italy: Migrants stranded

ROME — About 140 migrants remained stranded aboard a Turkish cargo ship on Saturday night as Malta and Italy argued about which country should accept them.

Italian port authorities said the migrants were aboard the Pinar in rough waters about 25 miles southwest of the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa. Two migrants who were ill were flown by Italian military helicopter to Lampedusa on Friday night for treatment after the Pinar rescued them.

Spain: Actor honored

MADRID — "Gone With the Wind" actor Leslie Howard will be honored as a war hero with a monument in Spain near where his plane was shot down by Nazi fighter pilots during World War II, a historical association said Saturday.

The propeller-shaped sculpture will be unveiled in July near Cedeira bearing the names of those who died aboard the commercial flight from Portugal to Britain in 1943, said the Royal Green Jackets association and author Jose Rey Ximena.

Association President Manuel Santiago Arenas Roca said the London-born Howard joined the Allies and campaigned hard against the Axis powers.

Turkey: Arrests protested

ANKARA — Thousands of people marched to the mausoleum of secular Turkey's founder on Saturday to protest the arrests of university professors and others accused of involvement in an alleged plot to topple the Islamic-rooted government.

More than 5,000 people waved Turkish flags, carried posters of Turkey's late leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and chanted: "Turkey is secular and will remain secular!"

Authorities have charged more than 200 people including politicians, journalists, military and police officers as part of the investigation into the alleged secularist conspiracy to topple the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.