London attack: Police 'know identities of killers'
Police investigating Saturday night's terror attack in London say they know the identity of the three attackers who killed seven people and injured 48.
The Met Police said their names would be released "as soon as operationally possible" as officers work to establish if they were part of a wider network.
They were shot by police after driving into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing people in Borough Market.
Officers searched two addresses in east London on Monday morning.
Police said a "number of people" had been detained following the raids, in Newham and Barking.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen cut ties with Qatar
Qatari diplomats ejected and land, air and sea traffic routes cut off in row over terror and regional stability
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terror, in the Gulf Arab region’s most serious diplomatic crisis in years.
The countries said they planned to break off all land, air and sea traffic with Qatar, and eject its diplomats from their territories. Qatar was also expelled from a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen.
The West should reflect on its part in prolonging the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Westerners who rail against Israel for the failure to end the conflict are being too easy on their own governments
Fifty years ago this Monday, on the first day of the Six Day War, Shlomo Gazit, head of the Israeli military intelligence’s assessment department, visited air force command to hear the stunning reports of the destruction that morning of almost the entire Egyptian air force by Israeli jets. As he would explain to me decades later, however, he would spend much of the subsequent week in a kind of “trance” because he also learned that day that his 23-year-old nephew was among the few missing Israeli pilots.
He still managed that week to produce a clear sighted blueprint for the future of the territories Israel had occupied after wresting them from the Jordanian, Egyptian and Syrian forces which had been ranged against it.
The woes of Bengalis, Burmese and Iranians of Karachi
Saher Baloch | Bilal Karim Mughal
Even on a Sunday morning, Ibrahim Hyderi is abuzz with activity. Bazaars are brimming with motorcycles, cars, autorickshaws. Buyers and sellers are trading all kinds of household goods and fishing equipment.
Khairuddin, a middle-aged man with dishevelled hair and a thin moustache, is sitting outside a tea shop amid the bustle of this large settlement of fishermen in southeastern Karachi. He looks nervous as he speaks. From the side of his eyes, he is looking warily at a couple of policemen roaming nearby on a van.
The policemen stop next to the tea shop. They try to pick up his words and ask people standing on the road about him. But then they drive away without taking any action.
There is history to this mutual wariness.
US Marines and Okinawa: Enough exasperation to go around
Okinawa is host to more than half of the 47,000 US troops stationed in Japan and opposition to the military presence has grown among residents
By GRANT NEWSHAM
US Marine Corps Commandant, General Robert Neller’s recent comments about re-thinking the plan to move 9,000 Marines to Guam and Hawaii from Okinawa no doubt exasperated Japan’s government.
However, there’s been plenty of exasperation to go around over the last 20 years when it comes to the US Marines and Okinawa.
Japan has promised repeatedly since 1996 to do the necessary to resolve the Okinawa opposition to US bases by moving the Marines’ Futenma Air Station to a quieter part of the island. The failure to do so was exasperating, though it happened often enough to get used to it.
As for using the Americans as a whipping boy for a Japanese central government unwilling to spend political capital to take on a noisy Okinawan opposition? Exasperating.
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