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NEW MEXICO, United States (Reuters) — Hundreds of people have evacuated to escape a wildfire in a blaze in rural New Mexico as hot weather feeds the flames, raising health concerns in other regions, officials said on Thursday (June 16). The so-called Dog Head Fire which broke out on Wednesday about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of the town of Tajique has forced evacuations and grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 hectares). Tajique is […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The alleged killer of British lawmaker Jo Cox was a “dedicated supporter” of a neo-Nazi group based in the United States, a civil rights group reported Thursday. The Southern Poverty Law Centre said that the man named by British media as the attacker, Thomas Mair, had a “long history with white nationalism”. “According to records obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center Mair was a dedicated supporter of the National […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British MP Jo Cox has died from her injuries, police said, after being reportedly shot and stabbed in an attack in the street on Thursday. “I am now very sad to have to report that she has died as a result of her injuries,” West Yorkshire Police chief Dee Collins told reporters. Cox was pronounced dead at 1:48pm (1248 GMT), Collins told a press conference in Wakefield, northern England. The […]
(REUTERS) More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of U.S. policy in Syria, calling for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s government to stop its persistent violations of a civil war cease-fire. The “dissent channel cable” was signed by 51 mid- to high-level State Department officers involved with advising on Syria policy. It was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The cable calls for “targeted military strikes” against […]
by Angus MACKINNON ROME, Italy (AFP) — From kings to consuls, emperors to popes, the rulers of Rome have always been men. Until now. Voters in the Italian capital return to the polls Sunday and all the signs are that they are set to elect Virginia Raggi as the first female mayor of the Eternal City. Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer and local councillor, has leapt from anonymity to become one of the best-known faces in […]
(Reuters) The family of a California design student killed in November’s attacks in Paris sued Twitter Inc, Google and Facebook Inc, claiming the social media companies provide “material support” to the militant group Islamic State. Nohemi Gonzalez’s family filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco, asking the court to rule that the companies are violating the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act. It seeks compensatory damages to be determined by the court. “For […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — People laid flowers and left tributes in Parliament Square in central London on Thursday evening (June 16) in memory of opposition Labor MP, Jo Cox, who was earlier shot dead in a street attack, not far from her northern England constituency office. The killing of a British member of parliament caused deep shock across Britain and the suspension of campaigning for next week’s referendum on the country’s EU membership. Jo […]
by Michel COMTE OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A Canadian woman who fought insurgents in Afghanistan became the country’s first female combat officer to rise to the rank of general on Thursday. Colonel Jennie Carignan, 47, was promoted to brigadier-general (one star) and put in charge of the Canadian army, the military announced. Other female generals have previously risen from non-combatant disciplines such as intelligence, medicine and development aid. Carignan enlisted in 1986, three years before […]
by Thomas URBAIN with Andrew BEATTY in Washington ORLANDO, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama traveled to grief-stricken Orlando Thursday, meeting loved ones devastated by a shooting rampage and using his bully pulpit to demand that the Republican-controlled Congress pass gun control. Four days after the worst mass shooting in US history, Obama made a solemn pilgrimage to meet staff at the Pulse nightclub, emergency responders and some of the dozens of families shattered […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Firefighters struggled Thursday to contain infernos across the western United States as experts warned that drought-striken California should prepare for an unusually intense wildfire season. Forest fires are a fact of life in much of California but have become far worse because of bone-dry conditions, with the Golden State gripped in its fifth year of drought. A fire in the Los Padres National Forest had expanded to two square […]
ORLANDO, United States (AFP) — A top US lawmaker said Thursday authorities were probing the Facebook activity of the Orlando nightclub shooter, after an investigation found Omar Mateen made extremist posts during the massacre and searched for news of his attack. Ron Johnson, the Republican chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday asking the company to share specifics of five accounts apparently used by Mateen. […]
