Toronto shooting: Deadly attack in Greektown district
A gunman has opened fire on a busy avenue in Toronto, killing a young woman and injuring 13 other people, one of them critically, police say.
The victim critically injured in the Canadian city's Greektown district is a girl of eight or nine, they add.
The gunman is dead, reportedly killed in an exchange of shots.
The attack erupted on Danforth Avenue on Sunday evening, when the area was teeming with people, Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reports.
The motive for the shooting, which reportedly targeted at least two cafes or restaurants, is still unclear.
Trump and Iran's Rouhani trade angry threats
US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have traded hostile warnings, amid rising tensions between the two countries.
Mr Trump tweeted that Iran "will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before" if it threatened the US.
Mr Rouhani earlier said that war with Iran would be "the mother of all wars".
In May, the US left a deal which curbed Iran's nuclear activities in return for the lifting of international sanctions.
President Rouhani's comments, made to Iranian diplomats, did leave open the possibility of future good relations with the US.
China: outcry over sale of 250,000 faulty vaccines prompts investigation
Chinese social media posts expressed anger with hashtag #Changsheng vaccine case# being viewed 470 million times by Monday
Chinese premier Li Keqiang has called for an immediate investigation into the sale of 250,000 faulty rabies vaccines that he said had crossed a moral line, while urging severe punishment for the companies and people implicated.
Outrage swept Chinese social media on Monday as regulators and officials tried to contain fallout over revelations that one of the country’s largest vaccine makers had been giving children defective vaccines.
Regulators last week ordered the Jilin-based Changsheng Biotechnology to stop production of a rabies vaccine, after investigators found fabricated production and inspection records during an inspection that was prompted by a tip off. Changsheng said in a stock market filing later in the week that authorities were punishing the company over a “substandard” DPT vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus.
German politicians allied against Steve Bannon
Steve Bannon plans to build a right-wing populist think tank in Europe. German lawmakers called the plans by the former adviser to the US president to influence the 2019 European elections "a frontal attack on the EU."
Plans by US far-right figure Steve Bannon to influence the European Parliament's 2019 election have been met with alarm across Germany's political spectrum. Bannon has become a controversial figure, known for his ties to the campaigns for the UK to leave the European Union and the election of US President Donald Trump.
"We have to fight now, with good arguments, confident and true," said Michael Roth, a center-left Social Democratic (SPD) lawmaker and minister of state for Europe in an interview with Die Welt newspaper.
Japan: Deadly heat wave continues as temp hits record 41.4C near Tokyo
Updated 0855 GMT (1655 HKT) July 23, 2018
Dozens of people have died across Japan as the country continues to swelter under scorching summer temperatures.
At least 44 people have died since July 9, with 11 dying on Saturday alone according to Kyodo News, as temperatures remained around 38 degrees Celsius (99F) in central Tokyo Monday.
In nearby Kumagaya, the mercury rose to 41.1 degrees (105.98F), the highest ever on record in Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, almost 12 degrees hotter than average temperatures at this time of year.
(Note: Kumagaya is one hour and ten minutes northwest of Tokyo in Saitama Prefecture.)
Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready.
The rise in renewable energy will scramble the decision making of grid managers.
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The US electricity system is at an extremely sensitive and uncertain juncture. More and more indicators point toward a future in which wind and solar power play a large role. But that future is not locked in. It still depends in large part on policies and economics that, while moving in the right direction, aren’t there yet.
And so the people who manage US electricity markets and infrastructure, who must make decisions with 20-, 30-, even 50-year consequences, are stuck making high-stakes bets in a haze of uncertainty.
That uncertainty has increased markedly under the recent Republican administration(somewhat ironically, given its oft-stated goal of “regulatory certainty”). Under President Obama, the feds established a consistent cross-agency push toward clean energy. The long-term trajectory was clear.
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