• After an oil tanker overturned in Pakistan, people rushed to collect the gushing fuel. Then the tanker exploded. At least 150 people were killed. [The New York Times]

• Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, backed down on a plan to create space for men and women to pray together at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. [The New York Times]

• In Angola, the president’s family, which includes Africa’s first female billionaire, has amassed extraordinary wealth in a construction boom since the end of the civil war. [The New York Times]

• In Tunisia, a drive to root out corruption has shown surprising vigor. [The New York Times]

• Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands demanded the closure of two Belgian nuclear reactors. [Deutsche Welle]

• In Northern Ireland, a guilty plea by a Protestant paramilitary leader could expose past collusion between loyalist terrorists and the British police. [The New York Times]

• Exit polls in Albania suggested that the governing Socialist Party won in parliamentary elections. [Reuters]