What we’re watching Friday

Good morning. Here’s some of the news we’re watching this morning.

Car bomb explodes in Lebanon

• A bomb killed the former Lebanese ambassador to the U.S. in central Beirut. The bomb mangled cars and shredded trees, killing at least 6 and wounding more than 70.

  Corruption fallout in Turkey

• A Turkish court blocked a new government requirement that police disclose investigations to superiors, suberting an attmept by the governemnt to put a lid on the growing corruption scandal.

Violence continues on South Sudan

• The United Nations reports more than 120,000 have been displaced by violence.

• African leaders are meeting in Nairobi to develop a road map for peace talks between factions.

Attack in Afghanistan

• Three coalition soldiers were killed by suicide car bomb in Kabul, including one American.