Munich attack: teenage gunman kills nine people at shopping centre
Police say motive of German-Iranian teenager, who is believed to have acted alone and also shot himself, is ‘completely unclear’
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A teenager with German-Iranian citizenship has shot and killed nine people and wounded more than 15 at a shopping centre in Munich, in the third attack on civilians in Europe in eight days.
The 18-year-old man, who police believe acted alone, is understood to have lived in Munich for up to two years. He reportedly shouted “I am German” during the prolonged attack on Friday evening, at the end of which he killed himself.
Germany’s third largest city was forced into lockdown after the gunman opened fire on diners in a McDonald’s restaurant before moving to a nearby shopping mall.
His motive was “completely unclear”, said Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae. There was no immediate evidence of an Islamist or other terrorist motive.
Latest update : 2016-07-23Erdogan pledges to rid Turkish institutions of ‘separatist cancer’ after coup
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told FRANCE 24 that his country’s state of emergency, imposed in the wake of an attempted coup to oust him could be extended until he has rid Turkey’s “institutions of this cancer”.
Turkey launched a sweeping crackdown following the failed July 15 insurrection, declaring a three-month state of emergency and detaining or dismissing 33,000 people in the military and other state institutions.
In the latest measures, the government revoked nearly 11,000 passports and detained 283 members of the presidential guard, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
WikiLeaks trove plunges Democrats into crisis on eve of Convention
Washington: On the eve of the convention at which Hillary Clinton is to be confirmed as presidential candidate, the Democratic Party has been plunged into crisis – the US media is brimful of ugly and embarrassing stories from within the party's head office, all based on 20,000 emails dropped on Friday evening by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.
The correspondence seem to confirm allegations by the defeated Senator Bernie Sanders campaign that the Democratic National Committee was actively rooting for Clinton to win – a revelation that likely will serve as a wedge between the two camps and make it even more difficult for Clinton to persuade Sanders voters to get with her.
The emails also reveal plotting within the DNC to embarrass GOP candidate Donald Trump, including drafting fake ad to recruit "hot women" to work for Trump.
Pokemon Go takes over town near North Korean border
Updated 0311 GMT (1111 HKT) July 23, 2016
It looks like a beautiful father-son bonding moment.
In matching red T-shirts, hunched over two smartphones, a father coaches his young boy in how to catch Pokemon.
You have to wonder if they even know they have walked onto the beach as they huddle together in absolute concentration.
This is a scene replicated across the seaside city of Sokcho in South Korea, 35 kilometers or 20 miles away from the DMZ or demilitarized zone which splits North and South Korea.
Smartphones raised, brows furrowed, Pokemon Go zombies in a world of their own have taken over the streets of Sokcho -- and the game isn't even available in this country yet.
How do you solve a problem like Russia's sports doping?
PATH TO PROGRESS
While geopolitical debates have put Russia and the international athletics community at odds over the country's allegedly state-sanctioned doping, both sides identify remarkably similar remedies.
At first glance, the divide between Russia and international athletic bodies over how to deal with the country's allegedly state-backed doping – and the harsh punishments that are looming for Russia and hundreds of its athletes – looks insurmountable.
Western experts argue that only the "nuclear option" of a total ban on Russian participation for at least one Olympic cycle will help to focus minds in Moscow. That, they say, would compel the state-run sports establishment to initiate the ground-up reforms needed to end what they call a culture of systemic doping in all branches of Russian sport, aided and abetted by government and security forces.
Russian experts argue that a blanket ban will have a negative impact on the public, and be easily represented by state TV – the primary information source for most Russians – as just another front in the West's campaign to sanction and delegitimize Russia.
In 1998, terrorists attacked two US embassies. No one blamed the secretary of state.
Updated by Jennifer Williams
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:
Radical Islamic terrorists attack a US embassy in a known terrorist hotspot, killing several Americans. Military reinforcements in the immediate aftermath of the attack are slow to arrive on the scene.
A subsequent inquiry finds that security at the embassy before the attack was woefully inadequate, and that repeated requests from top embassy personnel for more resources and better security went unheeded by the State Department leadership in Washington. The seriousness of the terrorist threat was also downplayed in Washington, despite repeated warnings from intelligence officials and Embassy staff that the risk was real.
Benghazi, right?
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