2. The first face to face meeting between Syria’s government and the opposition ended after a barely half hour with the 2 sides facing each other silently as an UN mediator laid groundwork for peace talks.

 

3. Another bomb went off Saturday morning next to a police training institute in eastern Cairo. Its explosion occurred on the anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution that brought down President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. No casualties were reported.

 

4. Brazilian activists sat on toilets along the famed Ipanema beach to protest the lack of the basic sanitation in Rio de Janeiro, the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Organizers say thousands of liters of untreated sewage flow into Rio’s waters every day.