Thousand Oaks: 'Mass shooting' reported at California bar
Police say they are responding to reports of a mass shooting at bar in Thousand Oaks, California.
Multiple people have been injured at the Borderline Bar and Grill, but it is not yet clear if there are fatalities.
Footage broadcast on local media showed people being carried away from the scene, apparently with gunshot injuries.
Police have asked people to stay away from the area as they respond.
The bar was hosting a college country music night on Wednesday, according to its website.
Pakistan blasphemy case: Asia Bibi freed from jail
Christian labourer has left detention facility but has to stay in Pakistan
Asia Bibi, the Christian farm labourer whose blasphemy case has triggered violent protests and assassinations in Pakistan, has been freed from jail but remains in protective custody, a week after the country’s supreme court overturned her conviction.
Officials said that she left a detention facility in the Punjab province amid tight security on Wednesday and was flown to Islamabad, where she was at a secure location because of threats to her life.
“She has been freed. I have been told that she is on a plane but nobody knows where she will land,” her lawyer Saif-ul-Malook said in a message sent to AFP.
EU backtracks on total ivory ban despite massive pressure from campaigners and MEPs
Exclusive: 'The European Parliament, the citizens of Europe and 32 African states want a complete ban on ivory sales. What's stopping the commission?'Josh GabbatissScience Correspondent
Politicians and campaigners have expressed dismay that the European Union (EU) appears to be holding back on further restrictions on the continent's ivory trade, despite enormous global pressure.
Europe is the largest domestic market for ivory products in the world and research has demonstrated that illegally poached ivory often makes its way into the legal market.
In 2017, the European Commission banned the export of raw ivory, but many still think the only way to make a dent in demand for products made of the material is to ban the domestic trade entirely.
Several 'firsts' among mixed results of US midterm elections
What is already the most diverse Congress ever will become even more so after Tuesday's elections, which broke barriers of race and gender.
For the first time, a pair of Native American congresswomen are headed to the House, in addition to two Muslim congresswoman. Massachusetts and Connecticut will also send black women to Congress as firsts for their states, while Arizona and Tennessee are getting their first female senators.
The high-profile midterm cycle that produced a record number of women contenders and candidates of color means a number of winners will take office as trailblazers. The inclusive midterm victories bode well for future election cycles, said Kimberly Peeler-Allen, co-founder of Higher Heights for America, a national organization focused on galvanizing black women voters and electing black women as candidates.
Why Iranian women are among the most vulnerable to US sanctions
Cost of feminine hygiene products soars as salaries drop with analysts warning traditional family dynamic is at risk.
On November 5, further US sanctions on Iran went into effect and are expected to bring devastating consequences on the Islamic Republic and its people.
It is feared that women along with children and impoverished Iranians are most at risk.
Fatemeh, 27, works at a public health policy start-up and teaches biology at a high school in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Born in Iran in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq war, she and her family moved to Canada and relocated to California at age 13.
Hiroshima A-bomb survivor: Yoshinori Kato regrets failing to save the lives of trapped schoolchildren
BY YUJI YAMAMOTO
CHUGOKU SHIMBUN
Words of regret run repeatedly through the mind of Yoshinori Kato: “I’m sorry I couldn’t save you.”
On Aug. 6, 1945, when the city of Hiroshima was hit by a U.S. atomic bomb, Kato, now 90 but who was 17 at the time, said he desperately tried to rescue children who were trapped under the collapsed building of Danbara National School (now Danbara Elementary School). However, he had no choice but to leave the children behind as raging fires closed in.
Before then, Kato was a first-year student at the Hiroshima Technical Institute (now Hiroshima University). But classes were suspended because of the war; instead, he was mobilized to work at the Kure Naval Arsenal, an assignment that lasted until July 1945.
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