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by Jacques Klopp Agence France Presse MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — Cheers drowned out tears in Manchester on Sunday as Ariana Grande was joined by fellow music stars for a charity concert where fans vowed to face down fears of terrorism after two deadly attacks in Britain. “Let the world hear your resilience,” Pharrell Williams told a sell-out crowd of 50,000 who had gathered to remember victims of a May 22 suicide bomb attack on […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Seven people were killed in a terror attack in London on Saturday night when a van smashed into pedestrians on London Bridge before three assailants went on a stabbing spree. The trio of attackers were shot dead by the police at the scene. Here is what we know about the attack, which came 12 days after a suicide bombing in Manchester and just days ahead of Britain’s general election on […]
OAKLAND, United States (AFP) — Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he would return to guiding the squad in Sunday’s second game of the NBA Finals against defending champion Cleveland after missing the past 11 games. Less than two hours before the scheduled tip-off, Kerr said he felt healthy enough to return to the sidelines after suffering nausea and migraines from complications following 2015 back surgery. Kerr, last year’s NBA Coach of the Year […]
by James Pheby Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Sunday for an attack by knife-wielding men who mowed down and stabbed revelers in London, killing seven people before being shot dead in a barrage of police gunfire. Saturday night’s rampage at a popular nightlife hub around London Bridge by three men wearing fake suicide vests was the third deadly terror attack in Britain in less than three […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British police arrested 12 people Sunday in connection with the attacks in London that left seven people dead, after raiding several addresses in Barking, a suburb to the east of the capital. “The investigation into last night’s horrific attack in London is progressing rapidly as the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) continue to piece together exactly what occurred,” the force said in a statement. It added that “a number of addresses” […]
(Eagle News) — Senate President Koko Pimentel on Sunday urged the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. to come out with a program for “casino gambling addicts” and for those “whose lives have been destroyed by casino gambling.” Pimentel made the suggestion after the police revealed that the gunman in the Resorts World Manila attack early Friday was heavily indebted as a result of his gambling activities. The police said the gambling addiction of Jessie Carlos, […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines on Sunday condemned the Saturday attack in London that left seven people killed, as it assured its citizens it was “closely monitoring” the situation there. “The Philippines strongly condemns the appalling attacks in London and conveys its deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of those who perished and those who were injured,” the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. According to the DFA, the attacks were “evidently […]
by Alice Ritchie Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom — Three assailants smashed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before attacking revellers in a popular nightlife hub with knives, leaving seven dead in the third deadly terror attack in Britain since March. Britain’s main political parties temporarily suspended campaigning for Thursday’s general election and Prime Minister Theresa May held an emergency meeting following the rampage on Saturday evening. “It has now been confirmed sadly […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday condemned the “evil ideology of Islamist extremism” as being behind three terror attacks in Britain since March, saying the perpetrators were “copying one another.” While not part of the same plot, “they are connected in one important sense. They are bound together by the evil ideology of Islamist extremism,” she said, adding that the “perpetrators are inspired to attack… by copying one another.”
By Paul Sandle and David Milliken | LONDON Militants drove a van at high speed into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing Saturday night revellers on the street and in nearby bars, killing at least six people and wounding more than 30. Armed police rushed to the scene and shot dead the three male attackers in the Borough Market area near the bridge, as authorities urged Londoners on Twitter to “run, hide, tell” if they […]
(Eagle News) — Police on Sunday identified the gunman in the Resorts World Manila attack that left more than 30 dead on Friday. National Capital Region Police Office chief Oscar Albayalde said Jessie Carlos, 42, was identified by his kin based on the footage recovered from the closed-circuit television camera in the establishment. Carlos, a Filipino, is a former Department of Finance employee, a tax specialist, assigned to a One Stop Shop Tax Credit and […]
by Damian WROCLAVSKY Agence France-Presse BRASILIA, Brazil – Brazil’s Michel Temer may already be fighting a devastating corruption scandal, but next week he faces a more immediate threat: a court ruling on whether he should even be president. The case in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal or TSE was long considered a slow-burning sideshow to the manic developments in Brazil’s corruption revelations, which have now reached the top. The TSE case alleges that the reelection victory in […]
