Quebec City mosque attack: Six dead and eight injured
Canadian prime minister decries shooting at mosque that killed at least six as two suspects are arrested.
At least six people were killed in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City during evening prayers, police said.
Gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre on Sunday at 8pm local time (01:00 GMT).
"Six people are confirmed dead - they range in age from 35 to about 70," Quebec provincial police spokeswoman Christine Coulombe told reporters, adding eight people were wounded and 39 were unharmed.
Police said two suspects had been arrested, but gave no details about them or what prompted the attack.
The biggest danger to America is not refugees but the man orchestrating their castigation from the White House
Nine days after Donald Trump mistook his inauguration speech for a Mussolini tribute act, it would take the Hubble telescope on steroids to detect a slither of optimism. The banning of residents and passport holders creates a heavier, more broodingly dark atmosphere than anyone too young to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis will recall
The only escape route from this horror, said the friend next to me on the sofa at noon today, is if this final set goes to 40,000-40,000. That way, we won’t have to return to the real world until after the next US election.
In the event, this fantastical piece of sporting nostalgia ended in Roger Federer’s favour within minutes. But for the preceding three and a half hours, you could almost persuade yourself that you’d slipped through a tear in space-time, and gone back eight years to the last time the Fed and Rafael Nadal duked it out over five sets for the Australian Open title.
Brazilian magnate to give himself up to authorities
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Facing an international arrest warrant Brazilian magnate Eike Batista said he would give himself up to authorities to "clean things up".
Wanted over money-laundering accusations, Batista is the latest high-profile suspect in investigations linked to a vast bribery scandal at state oil firm Petrobras.
"I'm returning to respond to justice, as it is my duty," Batista said in an interview on Sunday broadcast by Brazil's Globo TV, which was shot at New York's John F. Kennedy airport.
It's time "to help clean things up," the mogul said before boarding a flight for Rio de Janeiro.
Batista, 60, is alleged to have paid a $16.5 million bribe to former Rio de Janeiro state governor Sergio Cabral, who is already behind bars.
Philippines to disband police anti-drug units, but war goes on
President Rodrigo Duterte said he was embarrassed that anti-drugs officers had abused their power.
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The Philippines police will disband anti-drugs units following the killing of a South Korean businessmen by rogue officers, but the country’s president vowed on Sunday to forge ahead with his war on drugs until the last day of his term.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he was embarrassed that anti-drugs officers had abused their power to engage in kidnapping, leading to the killing of Jee Ick-joo, on the grounds of the national police headquarters.
Duterte said some suspects in the killing were still at large and gave them 48 hours to turn themselves in, or have a dead-or-alive bounty on their heads of 5 million pesos (US$100,000), for which he would prefer them dead.
Is there a credible Islamist threat in Latin America?
Some observers and policymakers suggest there is, but a cold look at the facts suggests fears may be overblown. Whatever the case, a nuanced approach to diplomacy will be required to build partnerships capable of thwarting any terrorist ambitions.
There is an Islamist threat in the hemisphere. But if it dominates the thinking of policymakers to excess, there is the risk of alienating our partners in the region and making it more difficult to secure the sort of cooperation we need to keep US citizens safe.
Individuals from Caribbean countries have left to join Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, raising the real risk that they will return as rogue terrorists, much like those that have been behind a number of attacks on civilians in Europe. There were the 1992 and 1994 alleged Hezbollah-Iran linked bombings in Argentina against the Israeli embassy and the Israeli Mutual Aid Society (AMIA). There was the recent arrest and now sentencing of the Hezbollah member Mohammed Hamdar in Peru for quite likely scoping out the country for potential targets. And there is the troubling series of allegations that the recently promoted Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami had and may maintain ties with Hezbollah.
Fuel debris possibly found below No. 2 reactor at Fukushima nuclear plant: NHK
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. has found possible nuclear fuel debris below the No. 2 reactor at Fukushima No. 1 power plant which was hit by meltdowns after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, public broadcaster NHK reported Monday.
Tepco detected a black lump directly below the reactor during an inspection by camera Monday morning but cannot yet confirm what it is, a spokesman said.
The spokesman said Tepco is investigating and will announce its assessment at a regularly scheduled news conference on Monday evening.
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