Finsbury Park attack: Man dies as van hits worshippers
A man has died and 10 people have been injured after a man drove a van into worshippers near a north London mosque.
Eight people were taken to hospital after the "terrorist attack" near Finsbury Park Mosque, police said.
A group of people were helping a man who had collapsed when they were hit by the van just after midnight. The man has died, but it is unclear whether this was as a result of the attack.
A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Police said all the victims of the attack, which took place outside Muslim Welfare House, were Muslim.
US Shakespeare theaters report abuse amid uproar over Trump-like Caesar
Multiple theaters say they have received hateful messages following rightwing protests over a controversial New York City production of Julius Caesar
American theaters bearing William Shakespeare’s name have reported a surge of abusive messages from members of the public, following rightwing protests over a New York production of Julius Caesar in which the doomed title character was dressed to look like Donald Trump.
The Public Theater’s Trump-esque Caesar was scheduled to be assassinated for the final time in Central Park on Sunday night, having appeared on stage for a month. On Friday night, two protesters interrupted the performance, adding to a swirling social-media storm.
Amidst sustained pressure from infuriated conservative activists and media, the New York company lost major sponsors. Such anger appears to have radiated outwards – with a loss of focus on the way.
With Qatari forces gone, tension rises between Djibouti and Eritrea
The African Union is calling for calm as border tensions between Djibouti and Eritrea intensify. The rising threat of unrest is further fallout from the diplomatic crisis embroiling Qatar.
A decades-long border dispute in the Doumeira region that, on occasion, had turned violent, was dampened in 2010 when the two sides agreed to let Qatar mediate. Since then, 450 Qatari forces have been maintaining a buffer zone between the two sides – until they up and left last week.
Qatar offered no explanation for the move, though it comes amid a diplomatic dispute with other Arab nations, most notably the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, which have cut diplomatic ties and are now trying to isolate Qatar from the rest of the world. Saudi Arabia and its allies allege that Qatar supports Islamist extremists, a charge the small gulf nation denies.
The secret negotiations that sealed Hong Kong's future
The two leaders sat several feet apart at a long table covered in green silk.
Between them, a tiny twin flagpole bore the standards of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China.
The crowd behind applauded as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang signed large red-bound documents with black fountain pens and then shook hands.
With that, on December 19, 1984, the end of more than 150 years of British rule over Hong Kong was sealed and a timeline put in place for China to assume sovereignty over the city on July 1, 1997.
U.S. Navy confirms deaths of all seven missing USS Fitzgerald crew
BY REIJI YOSHIDA
STAFF WRITER
YOKOSUKA, KANAGAWA PREF. – The U.S. Navy has identified the seven sailors who died when their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan on Saturday.
Seven crew members were unaccounted for after the collision flooded berths with seawater. Navy divers recovered the bodies after the heavily damaged USS Fitzgerald returned to its home port in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture with the aid of tugboats.
In a statement released early Monday, the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet identified the victims on Monday’s incident as Gunner’s Mate Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby, 19, from Palmyra, Virginia; Yeoman 3rd Class Shingo Alexander Douglass, 25, from San Diego; Sonar Technician 3rd Class Ngoc T Truong Huynh, 25, from Oakville, Connecticut; Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Noe Hernandez, 26, from Weslaco, Texas; Fire Controlman 2nd Class Carlos Victor Ganzon Sibayan, 23, from Chula Vista, California; Personnel Specialist 1st Class Xavier Alec Martin, 24, from Halethorpe, Maryland; and Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr., 37, from Elyria, Ohio.
Will the siege of Marawi spread?
Concerns are rising about where Islamic State might strike next in Southeast Asia
JAKARTA, JUNE 19, 2017 11:14 AM
Indonesian security forces are strengthening the archipelagic country’s northern border, fearing that Islamic State (IS) fighters still clinging to parts of the besieged southern Philippine city of Marawi may inspire similar bold terror actions in their territory.
Indonesian Defense Minister Ryamizard Ricacudu met with his neighboring counterparts on the Northern Kalimantan island of Tarakan last week to coordinate a response to what terrorism expert Sidney Jones calls a “game-changer” in the struggle to contain a growing regional threat.
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