“Eight people died early Tuesday after attackers hurled several Molotov cocktails into a Cancun, Mexico, bar, the state attorney general said.

Six women and two men, all Mexican nationals and employees of the tavern, were killed in the 1:30 a.m. strike, now under investigation by judicial police, according to a release from Francisco Alor Quezada, attorney general for the state of Quintana Roo.”

“The two men – passengers on United Flight 908 from Chicago O’Hare to Amsterdam on Sunday night – were arrested Monday at Amsterdam’s Schiphol International Airport after ’suspicious items’ were found in checked baggage, U.S. and Dutch authorities said.

Suspicious items found in luggage associated with the pair ‘were not deemed to be dangerous in and of themselves, and as we share information with our international partners, Dutch authorities were notified of the suspicious items,’ the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. ‘This matter continues to be under investigation.’”

“A car packed with at least 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of explosives blew up in an office district of Colombia’s capital Thursday, shattering windows and injuring nine people, police said. No deaths were reported.

The blast occurred at 5:30 a.m. (1030 GMT) outside a 12-story building housing Caracol Radio, the Spanish news agency EFE and the Ecuadorean consulate, as well as the offices of several banks and politicians, including former President Cesar Gaviria.

“A bombing in Northern Ireland is the latest in a series of attacks targeting police, sparking fears of a return to the years of unrest in Northern Ireland known as ‘the Troubles.’

The latest bombing appeared intended to hit police, but injured three children, hit by flying debris and then treated in a hospital.

“Gunmen killed a Yemeni intelligence officer in the flashpoint southern province of Lahij, a security official said on Saturday.

‘Armed men ambushed the chief of the Lahij intelligence service’s investigations department, Colonel Ali Abdul Kareem al-Ban, who was killed in a hail of bullets,’ the official told AFP.

The attack took place on Friday evening in Hamra village near the town of Hutah where security forces were swiftly deployed, witnesses said.

The forces later arrested up to eight supporters of the Southern Movement, a source from the coalition of groups wanting greater autonomy or independence for the region said on Saturday.