Parsons Green: Police hunt bomber behind Tube attack
A manhunt is under way to find the person behind Friday's rush hour Tube bombing in south-west London.
Police said they were "chasing down suspects" and had hundreds of officers trawling through CCTV following the District Line attack, which injured 29.
The UK terror threat has been raised to critical - the highest level - meaning an attack may be imminent.
The Islamic State group has said it was behind the bomb, which was detonated at 08:20 BST at Parsons Green station.
The station reopened in the early hours of Saturday.
The Metropolitan Police's Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said it was "very routine" for IS to claim the attack "whether or not they've had any previous engagement with the individuals involved".
US must stop North Korea threats, says China, as Kim Jong-un aims for military 'equilibrium'
Chinese ambassador says America needs to do ‘much more’ to achieve cooperation as Kim Jong-un speaks of goal of equalling US military might
The United States must stop threatening North Korea’s leader if a peaceful solution to the nuclear crisis is to be found, China’s ambassador to Washington has said, as Kim Jong-un reiterated his country’s aim to reach military “equilibrium” with the US.
Cui Tiankai told reporters in Washington: “They [the US] should refrain from issuing more threats. They should do more to find effective ways to resume dialogue and negotiation.”
“Honestly, I think the United States should be doing … much more than now, so that there’s real effective international cooperation on this issue.”
It's time for the EU to walk back its friendly trade agreement with Burma, acknowledging the suffering of the country's Rohingya Muslims
Burma has, in short, our ideal Brexit deal – full single market access, while not having to give anyone freedom of movement. Not even its own citizens, if they happen to be Rohingya Muslims
“Can you find a better word to describe it?"
That was UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ response when he was asked whether the Burmese Government’s murder, rape and displacement of almost half a million of its own citizens was “ethnic cleansing”.
The UN seems much more comfortable with the truth than the EU, which has Rohingya blood on its hands.
Burma is effectively in the EU single market, thanks to Brussel's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). Burma benefits from a preferential trade regime that means it has “duty-free and quota-free access to the EU for all products except arms”.
Pedophile scandal brings down Iceland's government
Iceland's ruling coalition has collapsed over anger at a pedophile scandal. The prime minister has called the country's second snap election in two years.
Icelandic Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson on Friday called a snap election after a junior coalition member quit the nine-month-old government.
The centrist Bright Future Party said there was a "serious breach of trust" after allegations emerged that the prime minister tried to cover up his father's role in clearing the record of a convicted pedophile.
Benediktsson said the country should hold elections in November.
"We have lost the majority and I don't see anything that indicates we can regain that. I am calling an election," Benediktsson told reporters.
Here's a look inside the city’s fake news machine as it gears up for 2020:
One of the shadowy industry's pioneers is a soft-spoken law school dropout. Worried that his online accounts could be shut down, the 24-year-old asked to be known only as Mikhail.
He takes on a different persona at night, prowling the internet as "Jesica," an American who frequently posts pro-Trump memes on Facebook.
The website and Facebook page that "Jesica" runs caters to conservative readers in the U.S.
The stories are political — and often wrong on the facts. But that doesn't concern Mikhail.
U.S. EMBASSY MEMOS OFFER A GLIMPSE INTO THE “DEVASTATED” LIVES OF REFUGEES REJECTED BY THE TRAVEL BAN
IN INTERNAL MEMOS, American embassies in Jordan and Ethiopia detailed how refugees there were “devastated” by January’s U.S. executive order barring travel from predominately Muslim countries. The memos back to State Department headquarters tell of the desperation of asylum-seekers who had their hopes of getting into the United States dashed by the order — including a girl who tried to kill herself when her family was told they could not travel.
The embassy documents, which The Intercept obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, are dated from the days and weeks after President Donald Trump issued what came to be known as “the Muslim ban,” sparking protests nationwide. In addition to barring travel from seven Muslim-majority nations — almost all war-torn and with large refugee populations — the order mandated an immediate halt to all refugee admissions for 120 days, cut the number of refugees to be let in to the U.S. this year by half, and indefinitely blocked refugees from Syria. The controversial order was immediately met with legal challenges and will be taken up by the Supreme Court next month. Trump used this morning’s terror attack in the London subway to declare that “the travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher, and more specific.”
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