Manchester bombing: more victims named as threat level is raised to critical – live news
- Soldiers on UK streets with warning further attack may be imminent
- Four more victims, including Olivia Campbell, 15, named
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The Manchester atrocity has prompted the Spanish government to urge better intelligence sharing and increased trust across the EU.
Speaking on Tuesday Spain’s foreign minister, Alfonso Dastis, said member states had to work together to put an end to what he called “this wretched scourge”.
Dastis, who previously served as Spain’s representative to the EU, added: “We have to work together, especially by pooling the information we have, with the awareness that no one is exempt from this madness.”
To that end, he said, all the members of the union needed to “establish a level of trust that allows for the fluid exchange of information”.
While he acknowledged progress on cooperation was being made, Dastis said: “I think that when it comes to this fight we must still improve the sharing of information and our joint work in this area.”
Troops count cost of Vietnam's Hamburger Hill – archive, 1969
24 May 1969: Senior US officers say the strategic location of Hill 937 - ‘Hamburger Hill’ - justified the frontal assault but paratroopers are not convinced
Wednesday 24 May 2017 05.00 BST
From Leonard Santorelli, Hamburger Hill (South Vietnam), May 23
“Hamburger Hill, was it worth it?” read a scrawled notice stuck with a bayonet to a charred tree stump on this remote north western peak overlooking Laos. Nearby lay a huge pile of discarded helmets, bullet-proof jackets, and blood-soaked rucksacks which belonged to the 55 Americans who died or the 300 who were wounded in repeated ground assaults up the steep slopes.
“Hamburger Hill, was it worth it?” read a scrawled notice stuck with a bayonet to a charred tree stump on this remote north western peak overlooking Laos. Nearby lay a huge pile of discarded helmets, bullet-proof jackets, and blood-soaked rucksacks which belonged to the 55 Americans who died or the 300 who were wounded in repeated ground assaults up the steep slopes.
Senior US officers speak of the strategic location of the 3,074-ft. mountain, and to the 619 North Vietnamese they say were killed defending it, and say “Of course, it was worth it.” But the young US paratroopers who hurled themselves against fierce machine-gun and rocket grenade fire for a week before seizing the hill are not convinced.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte threatens to deal ‘harshly’ with Isis militants in Marawi
Martial law declared on Mindanao island as troops battle Maute and Abu Sayyaf rebels on streets following botched raid
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned he would deal harshly with militants, after declaring martial law on Mindanao island following a failed raid on a hideout of Isis-linked rebels.
Duterte cut short a visit to Russia and placed the southern island of 22 million people under military rule on Tuesday, and said he would keep it that way for a year if necessary.
Fighting abated in the mainly Muslim city of Marawi as troops sought to contain dozens of rebels of the Maute group, who escaped a botched raid on Tuesday on an apartment and took over streets, bridges and buildings and sought to block army reinforcements.
In Jordanian city hit by ISIS, old lessons on Christian-Muslim coexistence
When Islamic State jihadists seized the Crusader castle in the heart of this southern Jordanian city in December, Maher Habashneh had just one thing in mind.
Braving stray bullets from a firefight playing out in the city center between ISIS and an alliance of security forces and city residents, Mr. Habashneh rushed to the home of Waddah Amarien, where he stood guard until his childhood friend returned from Amman early the next morning.
Habashneh, an unemployed university graduate, is Muslim, Mr. Amarien is Christian. Habashneh insists it was not an act motivated by support for interfaith coexistence – it was merely second nature.
Is North Korea using China’s satellites to guide its missiles?
Pyongyang doesn't have the funds or resources to build its own satellite navigation network.
MAY 24, 2017 6:50 AM
As North Korea fires more missiles in its drive to build and test rockets to reach the US mainland, one issue largely overlooked is that satellites are among methods used to guide such weapons to their targets.
Pyongyang doesn’t have a satellite navigation network, raising speculation that if it is using such a guidance system then is it tapping into China’s?
While information on military programs in the North is difficult to verify, reports going back to 2014 show that North Korean engineers were in China for technology training on how the country’s satellite navigation system — known as Beidou or Compass — worked.
Later the same year, another news report cited a Chinese military expert as saying China cannot stop North Korea from using Beidou in military operations.
TRUMP CALLED RODRIGO DUTERTE TO CONGRATULATE HIM ON HIS MURDEROUS DRUG WAR: “YOU ARE DOING AN AMAZING JOB”
May 24 2017, 8:17 a.m.
Part 1
It was enormously controversial that President Trump placed a friendly call to Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte in April. Now, we can read what they said.
IN A PHONE CALL from the White House late last month, U.S. President Donald Trump heaped praise on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, one of the world’s most murderous heads of state, for doing what Trump called an “unbelievable job” in his war on drugs. Trump offered an unqualified endorsement of Duterte’s bloody extermination campaign against suspected drug dealers and users, which has included open calls for extrajudicial murders and promises of pardons and immunity for the killers.
“You are a good man,” Trump told Duterte, according to an official transcript of the April 29 call produced by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs and obtained by The Intercept. “Keep up the good work,” Trump told Duterte. “You are doing an amazing job.”
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