Dallas shooting: Bomb material found at Micah Johnson home
Bomb-making material, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal have been found at the home of the suspect in the Dallas shootings, officials say.
Five police officers were killed and seven wounded in a hail of gunfire during a protest on Thursday against the shooting of black men by police.
The suspect, 25-year-old Micah Johnson, died after a long stand-off with police in central Dallas.
Mayor Mike Rawlings said officials believed he was "the lone shooter".
"We believe now the city is safe," the city mayor said at a news conference late on Friday.
The protest in Dallas took place after this week's deaths of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.
Officials said on Friday that a number of gun attacks on police officers and civilians had occurred in the aftermath of the deaths in Minnesota and Louisiana.
Japan condemns North Korean submarine-launched missile test
South Korean officials say what appears to be a ballistic missile has been launched off its eastern coast
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe North Korea has condemned a reported North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile.
The missile was fired from a location near the North Korean coastal town of Sinpo, where analysts have previously detected efforts by the North to develop submarine-launched ballistic missile systems, said an official from South Korea’s defence ministry, who did not want to be named, citing office rules. He could not immediately confirm how far the missile traveled and where it landed
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that it presumed the missile successfully ejected from the submarine’s launch tube, but failed in its early stage of flight. The Yonhap news agency said that the missile likely flew only a few kilometres before exploding midair, but the defence ministry official could not confirm the report.The former Isis translator who learned to speak the language of hate
As an interpreter for Isis in Syria, Jan Mahmoud Yahya witnessed first-hand the horror of the caliphate’s regime. Now an inmate in the notorious Mezze prison in Damascus, he tells Robert Fiskof jihad and the absurdity of war
Jan Mahmoud Yahya was an official translator for Isis when they led seven condemned men into the central al-Naim square in Raqqa. Arriving in Syria from Kyrgyzstan through a complex but highly organised system of Islamist recruitment and training, Yahya spoke calmly, sometimes smiling, even joking, in the Mezze military prison on the edge of Damascus. He had had time enough to reflect on what he had witnessed.
“A lot of ‘jihadi’ people saw these executions and one day I was beside the square when I saw lots of people and I asked some of them ‘What’s going on?’ They said there was going to be an execution.” We had asked the Syrian prison governor to remove the massive and grotesque cloth blindfold which Yahya was wearing when he was led into the room.
He blinked in the light and held out his feet to be shackled – the prison guards were fearful he would try to jump out of the window and escape – before the prison governor and his men left the room at our insistence.
Venezuelans storm Colombia border, seeking food and medicine
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Nearly 500 Venezuelan women defied the authorities of their country on Tuesday and stormed the border with Colombia, which has been closed for almost a year. Their sole intent: to buy the food and medicines that can no longer be found in Venezuela due to life-threatening shortages.
They queue for hours outside stores, pay extravagant prices for staple foods, or even scavenge in rubbish bins: Venezuelans have been living through a severe economic crisis for a little over a year, with consequent shortages in foodstuffs and medicines.
A full 80 percent of essential products are all but impossible to find, as our Observer explains below. The shortages have also spurred an explosion in prices, making what little food is available far too expensive for most.
Libya: Leaked tapes suggest West supports Haftar
Air traffic recordings indicate General Haftar receives Western support despite his opposition to Tripoli government.
Air traffic control recordings obtained by the Middle East Eye suggest British, French, Italian and US forces have been coordinating air strikes in support of renegade Libyan general, Khalifa Haftar.
The leaked tapes, which could indicate the countries are helping Haftar fight rebels in the east, appeared to confirm that a joint operations base exists - something which the London-based media organisation has previously reported.
"What's clear is that Western forces are helping Haftar coordinate air strikes in eastern Libya ,which is where his base of control is. But the targets there aren't actually Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS)," Karim el Bar, the journalist who reported the story, told Al Jazeera.
Beijing holds South China Sea war games before ruling
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Beijing has begun military drills in the South China Sea, state media reported Saturday ahead of a ruling by an international arbitration court on a dispute with the Philippines over the strategic waters.
The navy Friday carried out "combat exercises" with "live missiles" between the Paracels and the southern Chinese island of Hainan, the PLA Daily, the military's official newspaper, said on its website.
State television CCTV broadcast images of fighter aircraft and ships firing missiles, helicopters taking off and submarines surfacing.
"The drill focused on air control operations, sea battles and anti-submarine warfare", said the PLA Daily, whose article was reposted on the defence ministry website.
The military manoeuvres come as the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague is set to make its final decision on Tuesday in the territorial dispute between the Philippines and China.
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