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Police on Monday announced they had captured a person of interest associated with a shooting that killed six people and wounded more than 36 when a man with a high-powered rifle opened fire from a rooftop at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.

More than 36 people were injured, mostly with gunshot wounds, said Jim Anthony, a spokesperson for the NorthShore University HealthSystem. The 26 victims taken to the Highland Park hospital ranged in age from 8 to 85, said Brigham Temple, an emergency room doctor.

Police confirmed they captured 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III, who was from the area. They said he was driving a silver 2010 Honda Fit automobile.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office posted an online wanted poster of Crimo, showing a thin-faced bearded man with facial and neck tattoos. It said he weighed 120 pounds (54 kg) and was 5 feet 11 inches (1 meter 80 cms) tall.

They said he was driving a silver 2010 Honda Fit automobile.

Officials said a rifle was recovered from the scene.

Crimo appears to have published several self-made rap songs using the artist stage name “Awake The Rapper.”

The shooting caused toddlers to abandon tricycles and parents to run for safety with their children, turning a civic display of patriotism into a scene of panicked mayhem.

Police did not have a motive for the shooting.

The shooting comes with gun violence fresh on the minds of many Americans, after a massacre on May 24 killed 19 school children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which followed a May 14 attack that killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker called for an end to mass shootings after six people were killed and dozens wounded.

“The President agrees with me: This madness must stop,” Pritzker told media.

U.S. President Joe Biden called for a moment of silence amid celebrations for the U.S. Independence Day, after the incident that turn a civic display of patriotism into a scene of panicked mayhem.

Published : July 05, 2022

By : Reuters

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Pope Francis said he hopes to be able to go to Moscow and Kyiv as soon as possible after a visit to Canada later this month, during an exclusive interview with Reuters on Saturday.

Speaking of the situation in Ukraine, Francis noted that there have been contacts between Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about a possible trip to Moscow.

No pope has ever visited Moscow, and Francis has repeatedly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

When the Vatican first asked about a trip several months ago, Francis said Moscow replied that it was not the right time.

But he hinted that something may now have changed, and it is possible he would visit Moscow and Kyiv following his Canada trip.

Since the Russian invasion in February, the 85-year-old pontiff has repeatedly condemned the conflict and called for peace.

A month ago, Francis said he was planning to meet with Ukrainian officials to discuss the possibility of a visit to their country. He has been invited by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Ukraine’s Byzantine-rite Catholic Church and Ukraine’s ambassador to the Vatican, Andriy Yurash.

Published : July 04, 2022

By : Reuters

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Floods inundated properties on Monday as more heavy rain was set to drench Sydney, with fresh evacuation orders issued for tens of thousands of residents.

Relentless rain flooded several suburbs in Australia’s largest city, with officials warning of more wild weather to come.

An intense low-pressure system off Australia’s east coast is forecast to bring more heavy rain through Monday across New South Wales after several places in the state were hit with about a month’s rain over the weekend.

With about 30,000 residents in New South Wales state facing evacuation, frustration swelled in several suburbs in Sydney’s west after floods submerged homes, farms and bridges there, some for the third time this year.

No loss of lives has been reported so far as officials urged people to leave their homes when ordered and avoid driving on flooded roads.

Published : July 04, 2022

By : Reuters

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Protesters gathered in Ohio’s Akron on Sunday following the release of footage showing police officers shooting an unarmed Black man, Jayland Walker.

Police played multiple videos at a news conference, one of which they said showed a gunshot being fired from the car driven by Walker, 25.

He fled in his car after officers attempted to pull him over for a minor traffic violation. Walker’s body was found with some 60 gunshot wounds after he fled a traffic stop last week.

On Sunday afternoon, the Akron NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) led a peaceful protest at city hall.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched in the streets of the city of some 200,000 people, waving “Black Lives Matter” flags and chanting.

The police body camera video showed a chase lasting several minutes, after which Walker jumped out of the car and ran away from police. Police say it appears he was turning toward officers, who at the time believed he was armed. A gun was later recovered from his car.

Published : July 04, 2022

By : Reuters

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Emergency vehicles and cordon tapes were still seen outside Copenhagen’s Field’s mall in the early hours of Monday after three people were killed and several more were wounded in a shooting at the shopping center in Copenhagen.

Danish police said they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and charged him with manslaughter.

The attack rocked Denmark at the end of an otherwise joyful week, just after it hosted the first three stages of the Tour de France cycle race.

The event had sent hundreds of thousands of cheering Danes into the streets across the country.

The shooter had killed a man in his forties and two “young people”, a man and a woman, officials said. Several more were wounded, and among those were three in critical condition.

The suspect was apprehended at 5:48 p.m. (1548 GMT), carrying a rifle and ammunition. Police launched a massive search operation throughout the local Zealand region early Sunday evening in search of any accomplices.

English singer-songwriter Harry Styles on Monday expressed his condolences over a deadly shooting at a shopping mall in Copenhagen, after he cancelled a concert that was scheduled to be played in the same city.

“I’m devastated for the victims, their families, and everyone hurting. I’m sorry we couldn’t be together. Please look after each other,” Styles said in a tweet. His concert was due to be played on Sunday.

Published : July 04, 2022

By : Reuters

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The al-Azraqain landfill receives hundreds of tonnes of waste a day, including the dangerous untreated medical waste generated by hospitals in Sanaa.

At a landfill near the Yemeni capital Sanaa, a truck unloads bags of colorful trash to the seemingly unending sea of waste covering the area.

Close by, people stand readied with garbage bags to collect recyclables they can find amid the piles of organic, solid, and medical waste.

“We have no solution but to bury the medical waste with the garbage. It is mixed with garbage and buried,” said Bahauddin al-Hajj, manager of Data at the landfill.

“This may cause issues in the future, health issues – chemicals may leak into the groundwater, meaning this will affect the environment, this is one of the biggest threats to the environment,” he added.

More than seven years of conflict in Yemen have devastated the economy, displaced millions, and wreaked havoc on the environment.

Waste management officials in Sanaa say Saudi-led airstrikes destroyed a medical waste processing incinerator at the landfill site in 2015.

“After the incinerator was bombed, we were forced to mix medical waste with organic waste. This now poses a health risk, for humans, for workers, it is a threat to groundwater,” said Muhammad al-Jabri, an official at the landfill.

Houthi administrators say they are looking for support from NGOs to rebuild the facility.

In 2021 the UNDP inaugurated a waste-to-energy system in Lahij in a bid to “revolutionize the governorate’s approach to addressing waste management.”

The plant built southwest of the capital is expected to transform up to five tons of solid waste a day, a fraction of the 1,700 tonnes of waste dumped at al-Azraqain.

“Due to the high cost of establishing such a project (incinerator), we have coordinated with the Supreme Council (for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) as well as with various organizations, and God willing at the beginning of next year, we will discuss the rebuilding of this strategic project.”

Yemen’s warring sides, in a breakthrough, agreed this month on a two-month truce that began on April 2, the first since 2016. The deal eased a coalition blockade on areas held by the Houthis, who ousted former president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government from the capital, Sanaa, in late 2014.

Published : July 03, 2022

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Thousands of residents across parts of Sydney were ordered to evacuate on Sunday, with torrential rain and damaging winds pounding Australia’s east coast and threatening floods in areas that were hammered in March.

Emergency personnel was seen approaching a vehicle marooned in floodwater with a lifeboat, while heavily inundated sports fields turned into lakes. The weather bureau warned heavy rainfall along the east coast region is expected to intensify over the next two days.

“We are now facing dangers on multiple fronts — flash flooding, riverine flooding, and coastal erosion,” New South Wales emergency services minister Steph Cooke said in a televised media briefing.

The heavy rains have also caused dams to start spilling, an official said. Water authorities added that modeling showed the spill would be comparable to a major spill in March 2021 at the Warragamba Dam.

Published : July 03, 2022

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Chaba, the third typhoon of the year, made landfall in the coastal area of Maoming City in south China’s Guangdong Province at around 3 p.m. Saturday.

Typhoon brought gales and rain to its southern shores, causing floods in some areas, state TV reported on Saturday, as forecasters warned of record rainfall and high disaster risk in provinces including Guangdong, the country’s most populous.

Footage showed residents in Hainan being evacuated from rising flood waters. Hainan upgraded its emergency response to Level II, the second-highest, on Saturday. It suspended railway service across the island and canceled more than 400 flights to and from the cities of Haikou and Sanya.

Typhoon Chaba, the Thai name for the hibiscus flower, was moving northwest at 15 to 20 km (10 to 15 miles) per hour after the eye of the storm made landfall in Guangdong’s Maoming city on Saturday afternoon, the National Meteorological Center said in a statement.

Chaba, though medium in intensity and expected to lose strength over time, is likely to bring extremely heavy rains and may break the record for cumulative rainfall as it pulls the monsoon rain belt in the region inland, said Gao Shuanzhu, the centre’s chief forecaster.

According to the provincial meteorological department, Chaba will enter Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Saturday night.

Intense downpours and rainstorms are expected to lash the western part of the Pearl River Delta over the weekend, while the seas off Guangdong will experience strong gusts of up to about 160 km per hour, according to the meteorological forecast.

The provincial government has upgraded its emergency response level for typhoons to Level II, the second-highest, effective 8:30 a.m. Saturday.

Rainstorms, with maximum precipitation expected to reach 600 mm, have been forecast to hit most parts of Guangxi from Saturday to Thursday.

Typhoon Aere, the fourth typhoon of the year, is forecast to approach the East China Sea on Saturday night. Affected by Typhoon Aere, there are still uncertainties about Chaba’s route and the intensity of rainfalls it will cause, said the ministry, alerting severe flood control situations.

Anti-typhoon measures should be taken on all fronts at sea, in the air, and on land, the authorities said, stressing work to ensure vessels return to ports and offshore workers come ashore while relocating people in areas prone to geological disasters.

They also urged strictly guarding against river floods, mountain torrents, and urban waterlogging, and implementing effective emergency rescue.

China has a four-tier flood-control emergency response system, with level I being the most severe. 

In recent weeks, historic rainfall and flooding in southern China have destroyed property, paralysed traffic and disrupted the daily lives of millions in one of the country’s most populous and economically key regions.

Extreme weather including unusually heavy flooding is expected to continue in China through August, forecasters predicted this week, with climate change partly blamed.

Published : July 03, 2022

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The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region marked 25 years under China rule by releasing a new theme song called “We Will Be Better”.

The song, composed by musicians Keith Chan Siu-kei and Alan Cheung Ka-shing, was released by China Media Group on June 22, one week ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit on July 1.

Hong Kong became a special administrative region with executive, judicial and legislative autonomy when the UK handed it over to China on June 22, 1984. However, Hong Kong’s autonomy has been heavily curtailed by Beijing in recent years.

The theme song, set to a brisk melody with readable lyrics, aims to highlight the deepening integration of Hong Kong with the mainland. More than 30 Chinese characters, such as “sea”, “river” and “bay”, are used in the lyrics to underscore the characteristics of Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Area.

The composition captures Hong Kong’s distinctive style, combining light rock that is popular with Hong Kong youth and traditional Chinese music that highlights the culture.

The music video also records the lives of many Hong Kong compatriots including Olympic medallist Doo Hoi Kem, a role model of “Touching China 2021” Janis Chan Pui-yee, Hong Kong resident Leung On-lee, who has been working to fight poverty in China’s Guizhou Province, and medical professionals who devoted themselves to fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.

The video can be viewed here:

Published : July 02, 2022

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Chinese President Xi Jinping swore in Hong Kong’s new leader on Friday in a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China.

Former Hong Kong security chief John Lee was sworn in as Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Friday morning, as Hong Kong marks the 25th anniversary of its return to China.

Lee took his oath before Chinese President Xi Jinping, who oversaw the swearing-in ceremony.

“I, John Lee, swear that, in the office of Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, will uphold the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, bear allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and serve the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region conscientiously, dutifully, in full accordance with the law, honestly and with integrity, and be held accountable to the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,” said Lee.

The president congratulated Lee on his inauguration after the oath-taking.

Lee, who is sanctioned by the United States over his role in implementing the new national security law, takes charge at a time when the global financial hub is facing an exodus of people and talent amid some of the toughest COVID-19 restrictions in the world. Lee said in a speech that emphasizing that National Security law is beneficial for citizens.

Xi’s trip to Hong Kong is his first since 2017 when he swore in the city’s first female leader, Carrie Lam, who oversaw some of the territory’s most tumultuous times marked by anti-government protests in 2019 and the COVID epidemic.

Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, under a “one country, two systems” formula which guarantees wide-ranging autonomy and judicial independence not seen in mainland China.

Critics of the government, including Western nations, accuse authorities of trampling on those freedoms, which Beijing and Hong Kong reject.

Hong Kong residents speaking to Reuters on Friday said they felt little cause for celebration.

“So many major events have happened in Hong Kong and the city has changed, and we cannot go back. (We can’t regain) that sense of happiness. Even with (Chinese) President Xi coming, he cannot bring Hong Kong any happiness and bring about a proper sense of occasion,” said a local resident, Ivan Lam.

Another resident, 31-year-old cook Philip Fung, felt Xi’s arrival was creating an inconvenience, with a heavy police presence around barricaded roads near the Wan Chai Convention Centre, where Xi is attending the inauguration ceremony of the city’s new chief executive, John Lee.

Flags and commemorative banners declaring a “new era” of stability decorated main roads and walkways as part of the celebrations. 

Published : July 01, 2022

By : Reuters