Syria conflict: Suicide car bomb chase in Damascus
A suicide bomber has launched an attack in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing at least eight people, state TV report.
Syrian police had been chasing three suspected car bombers that were trying to enter the capital, reports said.
Police stopped two of the vehicles, but the third driver entered Tahrir square in the east of the city and reportedly blew himself up after being surrounded.
Syria is in the midst of a six-year-long civil war, with Damascus still mostly under government control.
At least 12 people were injured in Sunday's blast, reports said.
'I'm president, they're not': Donald Trump savages media at veterans rally
President pins tweet referring to ‘fraud news’ before suggesting media have subversive agenda and criticising his travel ban troubles
Donald Trump has lashed out at the “fake media”, accusing it of trying to gag him and his supporters during a speech at an evangelical event honoring veterans in Washington.
“The fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let them,” he said. “The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House. But I’m president, and they’re not,” he told attendees at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The president suggested the press “destroyed themselves because they went too far” and told supporters “Their agenda is not your agenda.”
North Korea could be sitting on trillions in untapped mineral resources
Mining currently only makes up 14 per cent of North Korea's economy – but the dictatorship may in fact be sitting on vast reserves of mineral wealth.
International sanctions imposed on the hermit kingdom in response to its nuclear tests should, in theory, be crippling its trade in minerals.
A March 2016 UN resolution banned the export of gold, vanadium, titanium, and rare earth metals from North Korea.
Another resolution in November capped production of coal and banned shipments of nickel, copper, zinc and silver.Tainting the Beautiful GameHow Asian Match-Fixers Are Infiltrating European Football
Asian investors are buying into European football clubs, bringing money, new players and hope along with them. But some are engaged in match-fixing, manipulating games and earning millions off crooked bets. They have already infiltrated a number of teams.
On April 29, at 10:01 p.m., soccer fans Simon Miller and Paul Langley lost their faith in the sport.The Irish men were sitting in City Calling Stadium in Longford, Ireland, and their team, Athlone Town FC, was behind 1:2. In the 80th minute of play, a Facebook message alert popped up on their mobile phones. A man who had been monitoring football bets for years wrote to them that the odds had just shifted dramatically and it seemed likely that another goal would soon be scored.
They both sat motionless as they watched the drama unfold on the pitch. Athlone's Portuguese coach, Ricardo Cravo, shifted Romanian midfielder Dragos Sfrijan to the defense, they say, and Latvian goalkeeper Igors Labuts suddenly began pressing forward on every corner kick, a potentially suicidal move that keepers generally only reserve for their team's final attacks of the match. But the show reached its climax in injury time: When a long ball flew into Athlone's half, Sfrijan clumsily jabbed at it, missing entirely, they say. And keeper Labuts, they continue, completely whiffed on the rather easy save.
French aid worker Sophie Petronin among six foreign hostages in Mali video
Al-Qaeda's Mali branch has released a proof-of-life video of six foreign hostages, including elderly Australian surgeon Arthur Kenneth Elliott and Frenchwoman Sophie Petronin, US-based monitoring group SITE said.
The 16 minute, 50 second video by Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen, also known as the Group to Support Islam and Muslims, was released on Telegram on Saturday, SITE said.
The other four hostages shown are South African Stephen McGown, Romanian Iulian Ghergut, Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockly and Colombian nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti.
No group had previously claimed responsibility for kidnapping Frenchwoman Petronin, who was abducted in late 2016 by armed men in the northern Malian town of Gao, where she ran an organisation for malnourished children.
Indigenous groups launch protests to resist Canada Day
Aboriginal communities call for a day of action to draw attention to 150 years of 'racism, genocide and colonialism'.
Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath
Indigenous people across Canada are holding ceremonies, events and protests, saying there is nothing to celebrate as the country marks its 150th anniversary.
On Parliament Hill in the capital Ottawa, where thousands are gathering to celebrate Canada Day on Saturday, groups of indigenous people and their supporters are "reoccupying" what they say is their land and drawing attention to the history and oppression of the aboriginal people.
"The goal of the reoccupation is to express our indigenous sovereignty in the face of these toxic national celebrations," Freddy Stoney point, organiser of the demonstrations, told Al Jazeera.
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