Pope Francis urges ethnic
Hungarians and Romanians to mend their differences toward a peaceful existence in one country.
(Reuters)
Business and economics
Chinese authorities begin an investigation into
American multinational courier delivery services company
FedEx for allegedly undermining the rights of Chinese clients. The investigation stems from allegations by Chinese telecommunications company Huawei that FedEx attempted to divert the shipping route of its packages without the company's prior authorization which in turn has been denied by FedEx.
(CNBC)
Disasters and accidents
Twenty-nine people are injured in a fire at a center used as temporary accommodation for about 500 migrants in the northwestern
Bosnian town of
Velika Kladusa.
(Reuters)
Six earthquakes, the first 5.3
Mw, in a two-hour period near
Korçë in southeastern
Albania injure four people and damage around 100 houses.
(Reuters)
Cruise ship
MSC Opera collides with a riverboat and the quayside at
Venice, Italy: four people are injured, none seriously. The incident leads to renewed demands to ban large cruise ships from the
Lagoon of Venice.
(BBC News)
Dozens of masked protesters set fire to the
U.S. Embassy in downtown
Tegucigalpa, amid a second day of mass anti-government protests in
Honduras.
(Reuters)
Shots fired by "regular forces" near the site of a sit-in protest in
Khartoum kill one person and wound 10 others, according to the Central Committee of
Sudanese Doctors. The gunfire lasted about four hours. This week at least three protesters have been shot dead and eight others injured during protests calling for the generals who replaced deposed President
Omar al-Bashir to hand power to a civilian-led administration.
(Reuters)(Al Jazeera)
Andy Ruiz Jr. defeats
Anthony Joshua by knockout in the seventh round to become IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight champion of the world in what has been described as one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight boxing history.
(Sky News)
A car bomb in
Azaz kills at least 21 people and leaves many wounded.
(DW)
A suicide car bomber kills five soldiers of the
Syrian Democratic Forces and five civilians at a checkpoint in central
Raqqa,
Syria. This and a nearby roadside bomb wound 20 people.
(DW)
King
Juan Carlos I of Spain retires from public life five years after his abdication.
(People)
During his visit to Romania,
Pope Francis apologizes to the
Roma people on behalf of the Catholic Church and asks forgiveness for "all those times in history when we have discriminated, mistreated or looked askance at you." He also
beatifies seven
Eastern Catholic church bishops who were jailed for treason and tortured
under Communist rule. All died in confinement and were buried in secret.
(Reuters)(BBC News)
Sanmmarinese voters vote to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and initiate a popular legislative initiative for the reform of the electoral system.
(Euronews)
A gunman kills four security officers and injures two before blowing himself up in
Tripoli,
Lebanon.
(BBC News)
Arts and culture
James Holzhauer is defeated on the American quiz show Jeopardy!, concluding a victory streak of 32 games with an earnings total of $2,464,216, but falls short of the winnings record set by
Ken Jennings in 2004.
(Washington Post)
The
United States announces new restrictions on American travel to
Cuba. Effective Wednesday, travel via cruise ships or other conveyances, including private yachts or airplanes, is prohibited. Group travel under the previous "people-to-people educational" provision is also not allowed.
(BBC News)(AP via WKYT-TV)
China expands its
warnings about travel to the U.S. issued for students and academics yesterday, to now cover tourists and businesses because, "in recent days, there have been incidents of gun violence, robberies and thefts in the United States".
(BBC News)(Reuters)
A
mass shooting in
Darwin, the capital of Australia's
Northern Territory, leaves four people dead and another injured at five different locations. The 45-year-old suspect, who had been on parole since January, is arrested. Authorities say the shooting was not terrorism-related.
(ABC News)(BBC News)
Jersey authorities seize over $267 million (£210m) from a Doraville Properties Corporation bank account of former Nigerian president and army chief of staff dictator
Sani Abacha (d. 1998) after courts ruled billions of dollars were stolen and laundered through the United States into the
Channel Islands.
(BBC News)(Metro)
Tens of thousands of people gather in
Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the
crackdown on protests in
Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong is one of the two places in China where people can openly commemorate the event, the other being
Macau, to a lesser extent; elsewhere in China, the authorities have banned and blocked any reference to the crackdown.
(BBC News)
The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors say the number of people killed this week in Sudan is at least 100, and that 40 bodies were pulled from the
River Nile at
Khartoum on Tuesday. Members of the
Rapid Support Forces have reportedly been roaming the streets attacking civilians as it pushes deeper into Khartoum.
(BBC News)
A Sudanese official denies that 100 people were killed by a paramilitary unit during protests, saying that the number was at most 46.
(BBC News)
Syrian government and Russian warplanes conduct airstrikes that target Syria's northwest, killing five civilians in the town of Kansafra and three villages in Idlib, including two children.
(Al Jazeera)
Government forces shell the northern Hama countryside, killing one civilian.
(Al Jazeera)
Government air attacks hit a motorcycle in the Idlib town of Maaret al-Numan, killing a woman and her two children.
(Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
Fiat Chrysler withdraws its merger proposal for French carmaker
Renault after Renault board members were unable to reach a decision on the offer.
(BBC News)
YouTube announces a new policy regarding
hate speech and harassment on the video sharing platform, saying it will specifically ban videos that include
neo-nazi and supremacist content, subsequently suspending several popular
right-wing channels, and demonetizing
Steven Crowder's.
(CNET)
Detroit Police Chief
James Craig announces the department is looking for a possible serial killer in three unsolved murders of
sex workers in the city dating back to March.
(Time)
Reuters, citing "a source familiar with the matter", said that the hedge fund firm
Elliott Management is in talks to acquire the storied bookseller
Barnes & Noble for roughly $476 million.
(Reuters)
The
African Union suspends
Sudan's membership "with immediate effect", after dozens of protesters were killed by pro-government forces in the capital
Khartoum.
(BBC News)
After the defeating of his party in the general election,
Prime MinisterLars Løkke Rasmussen resigns, but will remain as acting in the office until his succession.
(CBC)
In Peru, the president
Martín Vizcarra's government decides to impose humanitarian visa and passport requirements on Venezuelan immigrants who wish to enter Peru, who flee the economic, social and political crisis in their country. This happens after the expulsion of 140 Venezuelan citizens with police records and amid a growing rejection of immigrants from the Peruvian population. He said that his goal is "to ensure an orderly and safe migration we are achieving it through eliminating the bad elements.".
(Perú.21)(Gestión)(El Comercio)
France returns three archaeological pieces to
Peru that were seized by French customs in 2007. The artifacts, which date from between 1100 and 1450, are two clay statuettes and a wooden spear that belong to the
Chancay and
Chimú pre-Columbian cultures respectively.
(Perú.21)(El Comercio)
Three people on a rescue mission are killed when
Storm Miguel, with max winds of 129 km/h (80 mph), overturned their
National Society of Sea Rescue boat off the west coast of
France in the Atlantic Ocean. The storm, unusual at the start of the summer tourist season, hit Spain, the
Netherlands and southern England and Wales yesterday and is heading north toward
England, Wales and Scotland.
(BBC News)(AccuWeather)
Health and environment
In the
United Kingdom, three hospital patients die from listeria linked to prepacked sandwiches from North Country Cooked Meats distributed via The Good Food Chain, which supplies 43
National Health Service trusts across the country. Three other patients are seriously ill. North Country Cooked Meats, and its distributor, North Country Quality Foods, voluntarily cease production while the investigation is ongoing.
(BBC News)(CNN)
The
United Arab Emirates tells the UN Security Council that a "state actor" was most likely behind the May 12 attacks on four tankers off its coast, including ones from
Saudi Arabia and
Norway. UAE did not say who it suspected; the
United States blamed
Iran which denied the accusation.
(BBC News)
Mexico and the
United States reach a deal on migration, suspending tariffs on Mexican imports into the U.S. which were to take effect on June 10. Mexico agreed to increase its enforcement efforts along their southern border with
Guatemala, including deploying troops from their upcoming
National Guard [
es].
(CBS News)(CNBC)
Human remains found at a beach near the
Port of Quebec in 2011 and 2016 are identified as those of 21 shipwreck victims, who drowned in 1847 while fleeing the Irish
Great Famine.
(BBC News)
Several people, protesting
Meduza investigative journalist
Ivan Golunov's arrest Thursday on drug charges, are themselves arrested outside
Moscow's Nikulinsky Court. Others were arrested yesterday. His lawyer says drugs were planted on him. Golunov was taken to a hospital, police say because he said he was ill. Meduza says he was beaten up during and after his arrest. A doctor's examination found the reporter has "a suspected rib fracture, concussion and
hematoma."
(BBC News)(Moscow Times)
At least one person is killed and six others are injured after a crane collapses onto an apartment building in
Dallas, Texas, amid severe weather.
(KTRK-TV)
A woman is killed when a police officer driving under the influence crashes into a restaurant in Illinois.
(MSN)
International relations
Vietnamese customs say it will crack down on goods of Chinese origin illegally relabeled "Made in Vietnam" by exporters seeking to avoid
American tariffs on Chinese imports.
(Bloomberg)
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is elected as the next
president of
Kazakhstan. The election was marred by the arrests of more than 500 protesters and was not declared to be fully democratic by
OSCE observers.
(DW)
Over 1 million people gather in the streets of
Hong Kong to protest a new controversial law which would allow the city to extradite fugitives to China.
(CNN)
The
Vatican issues a teaching instruction, Male and Female He Created Them, which criticizes the theory of
gender as being more complex than the binary division of sexes. The document draws criticism from
LGBT groups.
(BBC News)
A man died and 15 others are injured after an accidental explosion at the building of the
Comune in
Rocca di Papa,
Italy.
Emanuele Crestini, the mayor of the city, was critically injured and died ten days later from his injuries, bringing the death toll to two.
(Corriere della Sera)
An
Indian court convicts six men in the 2018 rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl near
Kathua in the
state of
Jammu and Kashmir. Three of the men are given life sentences while the other three, found guilty of destroying evidence, receive five-year prison terms.
(NPR)
Two hundred
Myanmar Army troops surround Pauktawbyin monastery in
Rakhine State, demanding that they be allowed entry to search for
Arakan Army insurgents possibly hiding in an IDP camp within the monastery. The head monk initially refused, saying that they would only allow inspections by people in civilian clothes, but later permitted their entry.
(RFA)
The
E3 2019 trailer for
Pokémon Sword and Shield, scheduled to be released in November, causes controversy and unprecedented unanimous outrage among fans following the announcement that Pokémon absent from the Galar Pokédex cannot be transferred into the games, giving rise to the "Bring Back National Dex" hashtag among fans on
Twitter.
(Polygon)
Four bodies are recovered by salvage crews during the raising of the wreck of the Hableány, which sank on the
Danube in Budapest last month. Four other people are still missing.
(BBC News)
Following a public outcry, authorities in
Russia drop drug charges against a journalist,
Ivan Golunov, who has earned a reputation for exposing the corruption of
Moscow city officials.
(Reuters)(BBC News)
The
USA's 13–0 defeat of
Thailand sets a World Cup record for margin of victory for either men or women, and
Alex Morgan's five goals ties a tournament record.
(Yahoo! Sports)
Sudanese military and opposition leaders agree to resume talks that broke down after a
violent crackdown on protesters earlier in June. The military also agrees to release political prisoners, while the opposition agrees to end its campaign of strikes and civil disobedience.
(BBC News)
Chinese telecommunications and electronics company
Huawei cancels its new laptop launch. A Huawei executive said the company has been "unable to supply the PC" because of the U.S. trade blacklist and may have to scrap the project.
(BBC News)(The Guardian)
A speedboat carrying migrants reportedly sinks off the coast of
Venezuelaen route to
Curaçao, making it the third migrant boat leaving Venezuela to sink in as many months, with over 50 people missing.
(BBC News)
Japan offers to mediate between Iran and the U.S.; officials say the Japanese government hopes to rescue the landmark 2015 international nuclear deal.
(Financial Tribune)(Reuters)
Law and crime
Reuters reports, on the basis of an unnamed "senior administration" source, that the administration of
U.S. PresidentDonald Trump is pressuring the government of
Saudi Arabia to show some progress in its investigation of the
murder of
Jamal Khashoggi before the one-year anniversary in October.
(Reuters)
The
Legislative Council delays "to a later time" the second reading of the new legislation on extradition as thousands of protesters, who blocked key roads around government buildings, were confronted by police in
riot gear using
pepper spray. Despite widespread opposition, the government had said it will continue to push for passage.
(BBC News)
Russian authorities detain hundreds of protesters, including Novaya Gazeta journalist and protest organizer Ilya Azar and other reporters, at an "unauthorized march" in
Moscow demanding punishment for police who detained anti-corruption journalist
Ivan Golunov. Golunov's charges were dropped and he was released yesterday at which time
Interior MinisterVladimir Kolokoltsev said some officers who had taken part in his detention were suspended pending an investigation.
(BBC News)(Reuters)
The Peruvian Catholic Church urges the government of that country to continue receiving Venezuelan immigrants. He also expressed concern about the "increase in the negative perception of migrants." This, after the president
Martín Vizcarra decided to demand visa and passport for Venezuelan citizens who wish to enter Peru.
(Gestión)
Two
oil tankers, one Norwegian and one Japanese, are damaged and abandoned after being attacked in the
Gulf of Oman, with all crew members aboard both ships safely rescued.
(BBC News)
The
U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) recommends that the
Trump administration remove
Kellyanne Conway from her office as senior aide to President Trump because of her repeated violations of the
Hatch Act of 1939. The Trump administration rejects the OSC's recommendations, saying they "are deeply flawed and violate [Conway's] constitutional rights to free speech and due process."
(USA Today)
An unnamed
United States official claims that, just prior to the attack on two merchant vessels, an Iranian vessel launched a surface to air missile at a MQ-9 Reaper drone in the vicinity of the attack. An additional MQ-9 Reaper is reported to have been shot down by Houthi rebels several days prior in the
Red Sea.
(CNN)
The president of the Japanese shipping company offers a different account of the attack than that provided by the United States. Yutaka Katada says the
Filipino crew of the Kokuka Courageous oil tanker said their vessel was apparently first hit by an
artillery shell rather than a mine. The United States said the tanker was attacked by
limpet mines and released a video it says shows Iranian special forces removing an unexploded mine from the oil tanker's side.
(The Washington Post)(BBC News)
A
U.S. official says
Iranian Navygunboats are preventing the damaged Norwegian-owned Front Altair oil tanker from being towed away by two private tugboats in the
Gulf of Oman.
(Reuters)
United Nations Secretary-General
António Guterres calls for an independent investigation to establish the facts and responsibility for the oil tankers attacks in the Gulf of Oman.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
At least 61 people have been killed and 356,000 evacuated from their homes as heavy rain and floods swept through large parts of southern and central
China this week.
(Al Jazeera)
Kyodo News Agency reports that during his visit to mediate between the U.S. and Iran, Japanese PM
Shinzō Abe asked Iran to release American prisoners held by Iran, though the response is "unclear" to the press. But Iran says it will not negotiate with the United States, rejecting Abe's bid to broker dialogue between the two countries amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. Iranian Foreign Minister
Javad Zarif accuses the "B-Team" (
Mohammed bin Salman,
John Bolton and
Benjamin Netanyahu) of sabotaging diplomacy, including Abe's meeting, to hide its "economic terrorism" by accusing Iran of
attacking oil tankers.
(The Washington Post)(Kyodo News)
The
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, without ruling on the merits, orders U.S. District Judge
Marsha Pechman (
Seattle) to reconsider her ruling against the ban of most transgender people from the military, stating she did not give the military’s judgment enough deference.
(Reuters)
In response to a controversial pension reform proposal and cuts in the education budget, a general strike by over 40 million workers takes place in
Brazil. Demonstrations are held in over 80 cities across the country.
(France24)
12
Kenyan police officers are killed when their vehicle hits a roadside bomb in east
Wajir County, near the
Somali border. No one has claimed responsibility, though the police had been pursuing suspected
al-Shabab militants fighting Somalia's government and its backers.
(BBC News)(Region week)
Twin explosions rock
Mogadishu killing 11 and injuring over 25. The first bomb went off near a
checkpoint for the presidential palace killing nine and the other
bomb killed the two occupants in the
vehicle.
Al Shabbab claimed responsibility.
(Time)(Al Jazeera)
Seven people—four sanitation workers and three staff members—die after inhaling toxic fumes from a Darshsan Hotel sewer cleaning in the village of Fartikui in western
India. The hotel owner is charged with the fatalities.
(BBC News)
Health and environment
The
Ministry of Health of Peru reports that so far this year, 548 people have contracted
Guillain–Barré syndrome in an outbreak in the country. It also clarified that in the five cases in which patients died, death was caused by complications with other serious diseases.
(Perú.21)
India announces that effective Sunday it will impose tariffs, some as high as 70 percent, on 28 United States products, including almonds and apples, in response to the
U.S. government's refusal to exempt
India from higher taxes on steel and aluminum imports.
(BBC News)
A group of bandits attack a village in the Shinkafi local government area of
Zamfara State,
Nigeria, killing at least 34 civilians. The gunmen arrived on motorcycles and opened fire on civilians indiscriminately, later burning down homes.
(Reuters)
Foreign Minister of JapanTarō Kōno seeks cooperation from Mongolia over efforts to settle the issue of past abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, as Mongolia maintains friendly ties with Pyongyang. Japan has no ties with North Korea and pushes for further sanctions.
(The Japan Times)
The scheduled peaceful mass protest, despite bill suspension yesterday, of nearly 2 million people gather in Victoria Square demanding the legislation be withdrawn. If the organizers numbers are confirmed, this is the largest protest ever.
Hong Kong leaderCarrie Lam apologizes for proposing the bill. Police say turnout was 338,000 at its peak.
(BBC News)
Japanese
anime developers report that the industry is in crisis, even as its popularity soars in its native country. Among the reasons are low pay, long hours, and a huge shortage of artists – just as its global popularity reaches record levels.
(Japan Today)
Ecuador agrees to allow U.S. military planes fighting drug trafficking to operate from
San Cristóbal Airport in the
Galápagos Islands.
National Assembly legislators call on Defense Minister Oswaldo Jarrin and Environmental Minister Marcelo Mata to explain the scope of co-operation.
(BBC News)
Twelve people are killed and dozens more injured when a passenger grabs the steering wheel of a bus in
West Java,
Indonesia, causing it to crash.
(BBC News)
A man identified as Yujiro Iimori, who allegedly stabbed and robbed a
police officer of his gun, is arrested in
Osaka, Japan. He presents a mental health certificate as defense.
(The Japan Times)
In response to accusations by the United States that Iran is responsible for last week's
attacks on two oil tankers in the
Gulf of Oman, and the subsequent increased U.S. military presence in the region, Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani says "Iran will not wage war against any nation".
(CBC)
Forty one people are killed in an attack in the
Yoro and Gangafani villages in
Mali, one week after 35 are killed in
another attack. The attackers, riding motorcycles, targeted primarily
Dogon villages.
(CNN)
Google announces that it is setting aside $750 million in land and $250 million in financing to encourage developers in the
San Francisco area to build and rehabilitate housing, in order to ease the homeless crisis in a region where Google has 45,000 employees.
(Reuters)
Colombian authorities deport Venezuelan refugees in the border town of
Cúcuta; in response, the Venezuelan government restricts movement of Colombians into the country.
(Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
It is reported that
Roberto Marrero, aide to Venezuela's partially-recognized interim President
Juan Guaidó, who was arrested several months ago, has his preliminary hearing completed, with Judge Carol Padilla denying his right to defense and ordering his incarceration.
(El Universal)
Partially-recognized Interim President of Venezuela
Juan Guaidó and Venezuelan Ambassador to Colombia
Humberto Calderón Berti request that the Colombian government investigate two administrators of their own alliance on suspicion of embezzling US$100,000.
(WSJ)
Patrick Shanahan, who has been acting
Secretary of Defense since January 1, has withdrawn his name from consideration as Secretary "... to devote more time to his family", President Trump said.
Secretary of the ArmyMark Esper will be the acting Secretary of Defense. There are allegations of domestic violence against Mr. Shanahan.
(BBC News)
The
UN predicts that over five million Venezuelans, over 15% of the nation's population, will have left the country by the end of 2019 since the start of the
crisis in Venezuela—the total at the end of 2018 was 3.3 million. One million have left the country since November, with a daily average of 5,000 departures. Additionally, over 20% of all worldwide UN asylum requests are from Venezuelans; 350,000 applied in 2018 alone.
(Financial Times)
Health and environment
Millions of people in southeast
India face water shortages due to drought and depleted groundwater.
(CBC)
The Japanese coast guard says its patrol boats have been pushing back hundreds of North Korean boats trying to poach in fishing grounds rich with squid off Japan's northern coast.
(Japan Today)
Four people, three Russians and a Ukrainian, will be charged with murder for the crash that killed 298 people on July 17, 2014. The trial is to be held on March 9, 2020 and take place in
Badhoevedorp, Netherlands.
(CNN)
NXIVM leader
Keith Raniere is found guilty of seven charges, including human trafficking, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of a child, forced labor conspiracy, and racketeering.
(NPR)
Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Adel al-Jubeir says that the UN's report on the killing of journalist
Jamal Khashoggi is unfounded, saying it has "clear contradictions and baseless allegations."
(Gulf News)
An anonymous American official says the incident occurred in international airspace, and not over Iranian territory.
(The Times of Israel)
U.S. PresidentDonald Trump, when asked about the strike, says it is "hard to believe it was intentional". He later approves retaliatory military attacks against Iranian missile and radar facilities, but subsequently changes his mind.
(CNN)(BBC News)
Business and economics
The
Antitrust Division of the
U.S. Justice Department files a lawsuit against two large printing companies contemplating a
merger. If the deal is allowed to proceed, the filings claim, the combined company would dominate the market for printing magazines, catalogs and books.
(Reuters)
After days of disagreements, allegations of electoral fraud and several inconsistencies with the preliminary results of the general election held last Sunday, the
Supreme Electoral Tribunal orders a new review of the electoral records and restarts the count.
(Prensa Libre)
Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia
Adel Al-Jubeir says Iran "has to understand that its aggressive behaviour cannot be sustained" and that his country is "trying to avoid a war at all costs".
(Sky News)
Chris Davies, Member of the UK Parliament for the Welsh constituency of
Brecon and Radnorshire, is removed from his position following a successful recall petition in the wake of his conviction for fraudulent expense claims. A
by-election will be held to replace Davies.
(BBC News)
Health and environment
In a school of the
Moquegua city, in
Peru, 66 children are poisoned by a leak from a gas regasification plant, located 300 meters away. All affected students were taken to a nearby health center.
(América Televisión)(La República)
Saudi Arabia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Adel Al-Jubeir says if Iran closes the
Strait of Hormuz, there will be a "very, very strong reaction".
(Arab News)
Voters in
Mauritania head to the polls to elect a new president. The election would be the country's first democratic transition of power, as incumbent president
Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz prepares to step down after having served two terms.
(DW)
Twenty-six
Boko Haram militants and 11
Chadian soldiers are killed in an ambush after the soldiers recover cattle that the militants had seized. Nine
Chadian soldiers are injured.
(Yahoo! News)
Chile is extending its offer of "democratic responsibility" visas, allowing Venezuelans to live in the country for up to two years, so that they may be applied for from any Chilean embassy or consulate in the world instead of just in Venezuela. However, Chile border control now also demands visas upon entry for Venezuelans, a tightening of the previous 90-day free period. The move should aid Venezuelans trying to travel through other Latin American nations that have changing restrictions.
(Reuters)
Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of
Prague to demand the resignation of Czech Prime Minister
Andrej Babiš in the country's biggest protest since the
Velvet Revolution in 1989.
(BBC News)(CNN)
The Attorney General of
Ethiopia's
Amhara Region, Migbaru Kebede, dies after having been wounded during the coup attempt two days earlier.
Asaminew Tsige, the general suspected to be behind the coup attempt, had been reportedly killed by security forces.
(DW)
The
British newspaper Independent in Arabic quotes an intelligence source as saying that in 2018
Iran had delivered half a ton of
TATP explosives in diplomatic packages to a civilian plane that was supposed to be transferred to
Paris to carry out an attack in the city.
(The Jerusalem Post)
Law and crime
Diane Madison, the mother of
Americanserial killerMichael Madison, is stabbed to death in her home. Three children are also injured. Her grandson Jalen Plummer is arrested and charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault.
(Cleveland.com)
Suspected
ISIL militants attack checkpoints and an assembly center in the
Egyptian city of
Arish. Seven police officers are killed, along with a civilian. Four militants also died, including one that blew himself up.
(Al Jazeera)
San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to ban the sale of
electronic cigarettes (vapes) until the health effects of using them are better understood.
Juul, the largest producer of e-cigarettes in the United States, which is based in the city, condemns the ban saying the move will drive people back to
tobacco smoking and will create a
black market.
(BBC News)
AbbVie, the Illinois-based pharmaceutical company best known for
Humira, announces its plan to purchase
Allergan, the maker of
Botox, for about $63 billion.
(Reuters)
The Chamber of Commerce of
Lima warns that just under a million Peruvians are at risk of returning to poverty.
(La República)
Disasters and accidents
One woman dies and 21 people are affected after eating lunch in a Seventh-day Adventist church in the district of
Sorochuco, department of
Cajamarca, in
Peru. The causes of the poisoning are not yet clear.
(El Comercio)
A brush fire burns at least 32,000 acres of land in the
Florida Everglades amid near record-breaking temperatures.
(Accuweather)
Iran's special advisor to the parliament speaker, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, says
Saudi Arabia, the
UAE and
Bahrain are "toying with regional security by giving territories to a foreign power".
(Middle East Monitor)
Illinois becomes the 11th
U.S. state to legalize the recreational use of
cannabis. The bill, signed into law by
Governor of IllinoisJ. B. Pritzker, will also remove criminal records for purchasing or possessing 30 grams or less of cannabis.
(AP)
In Pakistan three
suicide bombers attempted to storm a police housing complex in the southern
Balochistan province. One of them was killed by guards, while the two others entered and blew themselves up, killing a senior constable and wounding five others. The
Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility
(Reuters)
Defence Minister
Harjit Sajjan announces that Canada will continue to command a
NATO mission in
Iraq for a second year until November 2020.
(Al Arabiya)
U.S. PresidentDonald Trump states that Germany is "delinquent" on NATO defense, saying, "So they are giving Russia billions of dollars yet we are supposed to protect Germany and Germany is delinquent! Okay?"
(Al Arabiya)
In a unanimous decision, the
Supreme Court of Japan rejects retrial for a 92-year-old woman, Ayako Haraguchi, who had already served 10 years in prison for the 1979 murder of her former brother-in-law.
(The Japan Times)
Arab Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki says that his forces intercept and down a drone in Yemeni airspace after its launch toward
Saudi Arabia by
Houthis north of
Sanaʽa.
(Al Arabiya)
Scientists announce, through the Science journal, that they discover the source of a
fast radio burst for the first time. FRB 180924, a non-repeating FRB which was detected in September 2018 using the
Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, originates from a large galaxy known as DES J214425.25−405400.81 located 3.6 billion light-years from
Earth.
(Newsweek)(9news)
Ellen White becomes England's all-time leading FIFA Women's World Cup Final goalscorer with the team's second goal against Norway in the 2019 Women's World Cup quarterfinal win.
(The Telegraph)
Nearly 100 people are killed in clashes between the
Syrian Army, rebels and
jihadists in northwestern Syria. 51 government troops and allied militiamen, and 45 rebel fighters and jihadists are among the dead.
(France 24)
The Vatican asks China's communist government to stop intimidating
Catholic clergy who want to remain unequivocally loyal to the pope and refuse to sign ambiguous official registration forms.
(Reuters)
More than 200 demonstrators break into the courtyard of Bahrain's embassy in
Baghdad and take down the kingdom's flag to protest a U.S.-led meeting in Bahrain on the
Israeli–Palestinian peace process.
(Reuters)
A
Nigerian man dies in a Japanese immigration detention center this week, an official says. It ends a hunger strike that an activist group said was intended to protest against him being held for more than three years.
(Reuters)
The
House of Representatives of the Netherlands passes the final bill of the climate agreement. The goal of the accord is to have the level of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere in 2030 the same as the level of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere in 1990.
(ABC News)
According to the first report presented by the
Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development,
Nicaragua has become one of the world's least democratic countries, qualifying it as an "authoritarian regime". Among the reasons that this center of thought mentions to explain this situation are "the retrocess of civil liberties by the repression against
the anti-government protests in progress since 2018" and "the loss of independence of the State institutions in favor of the Executive Power".
(La Prensa)
In
Spain, authorities report two deaths connected to the extreme heat. The worst wildfire in 20 years burns more than 5,000 hectares at the south of
Province of Tarragona, in
Catalonia.
(Express)(CNN)
In Osaka,
Argentina,
Brazil,
Chile and
Canada jointly issue a statement condemning the Venezuelan government. The statement's author,
Argentine PresidentMauricio Macri, indicated that it was meant to "show that beyond good faith and dialogue, Maduro takes advantage of that to create more poverty, famine and corruption in Venezuela".
(Clarín)
Law and crime
Carola Rackete, the captain of a migrant rescue ship, is arrested in
Italy for docking without authorization after Italy closed its ports to rescue organizations.
(BBC News)
Four
humvees packed with explosives controlled by
suicide bombers kill 23, including eight election workers, in the province of
Kandahar. The Taliban claimed 57 were killed.
(Reuters)
Gunmen open fire, killing two guards and wounding another for Lebanese Refugee Affairs Minister, Saleh al-Gharib. This attack happened in a mountain village near
Beirut,
Lebanon.
(Al Jazeera)(DW)
Princess
Haya bint Hussein of Jordan fled her husband
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, with their two children in fear for her life. The family fled to London via Germany seeking asylum, and a high profile court battle over non-
repatriation and custody of the children is anticipated.
(Times)
Law and crime
In the second similar case within a week, police in
Toyonaka,
Japan, arrest Ryotaro Taniguchi for keeping the body of his deceased mother a year after her death. He is quoted as saying he didn't want to pay for the funeral. Police are investigating whether or not Taniguchi continued to receive his mother's pension.
(Japan Today)(The Japan Times)