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TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — A suicide bomber detonated explosives at the tomb of Iranian revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini in southern Tehran on Wednesday, news agency ISNA reported. The agency reported one person killed but it was unclear if that meant the suicide bomber. The ILNA news agency said five people had been injured by shooting at the mausoleum.
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — At least one gunman opened fire inside the Iranian parliament on Wednesday, wounding several people, state media reported. There were mixed reports, with some local news agencies reporting there was a single shooter inside the Tehran parliamentary complex and others saying there were three men armed with rifles and a pistol. News agencies ISNA and Fars said three people had been shot, including at least one security guard.
by Carola Sole with Sebastian Smith in Rio de Janeiro Agence France Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Judges on Brazil’s electoral court were expected to start voting Wednesday in a case that could topple scandal-tainted President Michel Temer. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) is examining whether the 2014 reelection of President Dilma Rousseff and her then-vice president Temer should be invalidated because of corrupt campaign funding. There was no indication in the opening session late Tuesday as […]
by Andrew Beatty, Ian Geoffrey Timberlake and David Harding Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump urged Gulf unity Tuesday in remarks released just hours after he appeared to back Saudi Arabia and its regional allies’ decision to sever ties with Qatar. In an abrupt and sweeping move, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain announced Monday they were cutting diplomatic relations and closing air, sea and land links with […]
by Laura Mannering Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor is one of the world’s busiest ports, but every morning daring elderly swimmers dive in to its choppy waters against a teeming backdrop of ferries, cargo ships and fishing boats. The city’s older generations fill public spaces as the sun rises, practising sword dancing and tai chi, or playing impromptu games of badminton. On the western tip of Hong Kong Island, […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Qatar must “change their policies” and stop supporting “extremist groups,” the Saudi foreign minister said Tuesday in Paris, a day after his nation and its allies cut off ties with the Gulf state. “They have to change their policies” and “stop supporting extremist groups,” Adel Al-Jubeir told reporters, adding that Qatar needed “to act like a normal country.” Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates severed diplomatic ties and […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood to defend Qatar on Tuesday, saying he intends to “develop” ties with the embattled Gulf state hit by sanction from Saudi Arabia and its allies. “Let me say at the outset that we do not think the sanctions against Qatar are good,” Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara. “Turkey will continue and will develop our ties with Qatar, as with all our friends who […]
by Franck Iovene / with Angus MacKinnon in Rome Agence France-Presse FAGNANO, Italy – Youssef Zaghba, one of three authors of Saturday’s deadly attack in London, was intercepted last year en route to Syria and flagged to Britain as a possible jihadist, Italian authorities said Tuesday. Zaghba, a 22-year-old with dual Moroccan-Italian nationality, was briefly detained after being stopped at the airport in Bologna, central Italy in March 2016. Italian prosecutors were unable to bring […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — A French police officer shot and injured a man who attacked him with a hammer outside Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral on Tuesday, authorities said. Police sealed off the area in front of the cathedral, where the attacker lay injured on the ground. The attack comes with France on high alert for more jihadist strikes after a weekend attack in London, where extremists used a van and knives to crush to death and […]
by Ian Timberlake with David Harding in Doha Agence France Presse United States President Donald Trump threw his weight behind efforts to isolate Qatar on Tuesday, backing Saudi Arabia and its allies after they cut ties with Doha over claims it supports extremism. In a surprise move against a key US ally, Trump suggested Qatar — home to the largest American airbase in the Middle East — was funding extremism as he tacitly backed the diplomatic […]
by Richard INGHAM Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom – Police on Tuesday identified the third attacker in the weekend terror assault in London amid mounting anger, two days before an election, over how the jihadist killers had apparently escaped surveillance. With flags at half-mast, Britain fell silent at 11:00 am to remember the seven killed and dozens injured on Saturday — a mourning ritual now grimly familiar after two previous attacks in less than three months. […]
A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake shook northern Peru on Monday, injuring at least two people and damaging at least one home, authorities said. The quake struck east of the city of Mancora at a depth of 18 kilometers (11 miles), the Peruvian Geophysical Institute said. “Two people have been reported injured and a home has been damaged” in the northern Tumbes region, the National Civil Defense Institute said on Twitter. Peru sits on the so-called Ring […]
