News in brief

By The Associated Press

Osteen’s Houston megachurch holds healing and thanksgiving service

HOUSTON | A Houston megachurch has held a special service a week after a woman opened fire in one of its hallways. Lakewood Church is run by celebrity pastor Joel Osteen. The megachurch has not had services since the Feb. 11 shooting.

Osteen says Sunday’s service was meant to celebrate a “time of healing and restoration.” Police say 36-year-old Genesse Moreno entered the church with her 7-year-old son and opened fire. Two people were injured, including her son. The boy remains hospitalized. Moreno was shot and killed by security officers.

Questions about the shooting remained unanswered, including Moreno’s motive.

Over 300 detained in Russia as country mourns Alexei Navalny

A prominent rights group says over 300 people have been detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony.

The sudden death of the 47-year-old Navalny was a crushing blow to many Russians, who had pinned their hopes for the future on President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe. Navalny remained vocal in his unrelenting criticism of the Kremlin even after surviving a nerve agent poisoning and receiving multiple prison terms.

Hundreds of people across Russia streamed to ad-hoc memorials and monuments to victims of political repression with flowers and candles on Friday and Saturday. Detentions occurred in over a dozen cities, according to the OVD-Info rights group.

China’s coast guard to ramp up patrols near Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago

BANGKOK | China is stepping up patrols in the waters off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, days after two of its fishermen drowned being chased by the Taiwanese coast guard, which accused the boat of trespassing.

The Chinese coast guard’s Fujian division will regularly monitor the waters off the southern coast of the city of Xiamen — a few kilometers from Kinmen — to strengthen maritime law enforcement, an official said.

Fishermen from Taiwan and China regularly sail that stretch of water. The fishermen’s deaths are unusual despite the level of Chinese activity in the waters near Kinmen, which is closer to China than it is to Taiwan’s main island. China claims all of self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory.

—From AP reports