A British zookeeper is killed by a tiger in a 'freak accident'. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
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Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Zookeeper dies in accident in British zoo(VIDEO)
A British zookeeper is killed by a tiger in a 'freak accident'. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
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Russia worried contacts with Trump team lack positive shifts
Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, on Tuesday, said that Moscow was concerned that contacts with the Donald Trump administration had not yet led to positive shifts in the relations between the two nations.
Russian news agencies quoted Ryabkov as saying that as nuclear powers Russia and the United States can not afford to keep their relations at such a low level.
Tensions between the two countries have soared over the conflict in Syria, with Russian President Vladimir Putin backing Syria’s government and the US opposing it.
On April 12, Trump also said that relations with Russia “may be at an all-time low” following Syria’s use of chemical weapons on April 4, and the US airstrike that followed.
Stopping just short of accusing Russia of complicity with the sarin gas attack against civilians April 4, Trump said it’s “certainly possible” that Russia had advance knowledge of the use of chemical weapons by its ally.
“I like to think they didn’t know. But they could have. They were there,” he said.
Trump said he had no regrets about the decision to launch 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian air base two days later, saying Syrian leader Bashar Assad left him no choice by gassing innocent children. (NAN)
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President Buhari may return next week, Sahara Reporters
A report by Sahara Reporters claims
President Muhammadu Buhari may
return to Nigeria next week.
According to a tweet by the online
newspaper, Buhari may return to
Nigeria from the United Kingdom next
week, “but nobody is willing to state his
health condition.”
There were no additional details given
by the newspaper. NAIJ.com cannot
independently verify these claims.
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North Korea leader Kim supervises missile test of new guidance system: KCNA
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of a new ballistic missile controlled by a precision guidance system and ordered the development of more powerful strategic weapons, the North's official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
The missile was equipped with an advanced automated pre-launch sequence compared to previous versions of the "Hwasong" rockets, KCNA said, indicating the North had launched a modified Scud-class missile, as South Korea's military said on Monday.
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Monday, 29 May 2017
ISIS in Southeast Asia: Philippines battles growing threat
Philippines: The next ISIS stronghold?01:03
ISIS in Southeast Asia: Philippines battles growing threat
By James Griffiths, CNN
Updated 0055 GMT (0855 HKT) May 30, 2017
(CNN)The black flag of ISIS has been raised in the Philippines.
At least 103 people have died in the city of Marawi on the southern island of Mindanao in less than a week as fighters affiliated with the so-called Islamic State engaged in violent clashes with government forces, and martial law was declared over the entire island.
Local resident Chico Usman said the militants had entered the predominantly Muslim city of some 200,000 suddenly, on the afternoon of May 24, wearing masks and carrying assault rifles. "Everybody was shocked and ran into their houses," he said, adding they could hear gunfire and fighting until the following morning.
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Saturday, 27 May 2017
Egypt shooting: ISIS claims massacre of 29
The death toll in Friday's attack on buses carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt has risen to 29, officials said, as the Islamist terror group ISIS claimed responsibility for the massacre.
The buses were on a desert road headed to a monastery in the Minya governorate south of Cairo when assailants wearing fatigues and masks fired on them from three four-wheel-drive vehicles, Egypt's Interior Ministry said.
Hours later, Egypt responded with airstrikes against terrorist camps, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in an on-camera statement, according to state-run Nile TV. The exact location of Friday's airstrikes was unclear, but Nile TV reported that Egypt has targeted terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula and on the border with Libya.
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Turkish NBA star tweets 'you can't catch me' at arrest warrant report
Enes Kanter, the Turkish NBA star whose home country has revoked his passport, on Friday expressed disdain on social media at reports that Turkey's government had issued a warrant for his arrest.
"You can’t catch me. Don’t waste your breath. I will come on my own will anyway, to spit on your ugly, hateful faces," Kanter said in a Twitter post accompanied by a photo of a story by Turkish newspaper Sabah about the arrest warrant.
Kanter's agent, the National Basketball Association player's union and representatives for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kanter's team, did not respond to requests for comment.
Kanter, a vocal critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, was detained in Romania on May 20 when authorities learned his Turkish passport had been revoked. He returned to the United States on Sunday.
On Monday in New York, Kanter lashed out at Erdogan at a news conference, calling him the "Hitler of our century."
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UK lowers threat level as Manchester probe advances
Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Britain on Saturday lowered the terror threat level which was hiked after this week's carnage in Manchester as police pushed forward with their investigation, arresting two more people.
The decision to reduce the threat level from critical to severe was announced by Prime Minister Theresa May who said there were now 11 suspects in custody over Monday night's bombing targeting young fans at a pop concert.
The latest arrests took place early on Saturday with police detaining two men, aged 20 and 22, in north Manchester.
Later in the day, police evacuated Moss Side in the south as they raided a property there, with a bomb disposal vehicle also at the scene, an AFP correspondent said.
So far, police are holding 11 suspects over Monday's blast at the end of a gig by US pop idol Ariana Grande which killed 22 people, a third of them children.
Another 116 were injured in the blast which was claimed by the extremist Islamic State group.
Police in Libya also detained the father and brother of the bomber, 22-year-old Salman Abedi.
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Suspect in Portland double murder posted white supremacist material online
According to police, while riding the MAX train in suburban north-east Portland, Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, began “yelling various remarks that would best be characterized as hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions.”
When fellow passengers attempted to intervene, Christian stabbed three of them. One man, 53-year-old Ricky John Best of Happy Valley, Oregon, died at the scene. Another, 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche of south-east Portland, was pronounced dead at a local hospital. A third was treated for injuries that police said were “not expected to be life-threatening”.
The targets of Christian’s reported abuse included two young women who left the scene. Police believe they may have been Muslim, and that one may have been wearing a hijab. Police have appealed for these women to come forward.
After the attack, Christian reportedly fled on foot from the Hollywood transit station to a nearby medical center, but was soon apprehended by police. An amateur video published by the Oregonian appeared to show Christian taunting police before his arrest.
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Police release CCTV pictures of Manchester bomber
Pictures of the Manchester bomber on his way to the arena where he carried out Britain’s worst terrorist attack in 12 years have been released by police.
CCTV footage shows Salman Abedi, 22, shortly before his suicide attack on an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester arena on Monday night.
Wearing a black puffa jacket, baseball cap, jeans and trainers, the CCTV images show Abedi in glasses, carrying the rucksack containing the device that killed 22 people and injured 119 others.
Police believe he assembled his deadly bomb in a rented Airbnb flat in a mansion block on Granby Row in the city centre, near Canal Street. The flat is one of 17 locations searched by forensic experts in the past few days, with 14 searches continuing on Saturday night.
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Donald Trump looks to contain damage from latest Jared Kushner Russia revelations
It is a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire for US President Donald Trump having returned to Washington from his first foreign trip - thanks to the latest revelations surrounding his team and Russia.
Following on from a difficult meeting with world leaders at a summit in Italy, Mr Trump and his team face reports that Mr Trump’s son-on-law - and top White House adviser - Jared Kushner had looked to set up a secret back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump transition team.
It was meeting in December with Sergei Kislyak the Russian ambassador to the United States where Mr Kushner - who was a private citizen but involved in the transition to the White House -proposed using Russian diplomatic facilities for back-channel discussions.
Mr Kislyak was said to have told his superiors that he was “taken aback” by the suggestion of using Russian facilities - the aim being making the conversations more difficult to monitor - for the line that was meant to be used to be to discuss Syria and other policy issues.
The White House did not acknowledge Mr Kushner attending the meeting - which also reportedly included than National security Adviser Michael Flynn - until March and called it a brief courtesy meeting.
The proposal was never acted upon, according to the Washington Post that first reported the story, but the actions of Mr Kusher are coming under increasing scrutiny as part of the FBI investigation into Russia’s alleged meddling in last year’s Presidential election.
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Egypt hits Libyan terror camps again after attack kills 29 Copts
Egypt launched a fresh wave of air strikes against Libyan terrorist bases on Saturday in response to the killing of 29 Coptic Christians south of Cairo, with a warning of further retaliation possible.
The airstrikes follow six bombing raids in Libya that hit the north-eastern coastal town of Derna on Friday, with Cairo officials saying bombs struck terrorist training camps of the Shura Council, aligned with al-Qaida.
Pictures from Derna on social media showed devastated buildings but there were no reliable casualty numbers.
The savagery of the attack on the Copts, with at least two children, aged two and four, among the dead, has shocked Egypt. The Copts had been travelling to the monastery of St Samuel the Confessor, 85 miles south of Cairo, when their small convoy was halted on a desert road by up to 10 gunmen dressed as soldiers, who then opened fire.
Although Egyptian forces targeted an al-Qaida affiliated group, the responsibility for the attack was claimed by Islamic State, which has carried out previous atrocities against Egypt’s Copts. Libyan sources say Egypt has indicated more attacks, possibly including groundstrikes, are being considered by Cairo.
Within hours of Friday’s killings, the president of Egypt, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, declared: “Egypt will not hesitate to strike terrorist camps anywhere.” The president told Pope Towadros II, leader of the Coptic church in Egypt, that the state would not rest easy until the perpetrators of the attack were punished.
In Genoa, Pope Francis prayed for the Copts, saying that today there were more Christian martyrs for the faith than in ancient times. He prayed “for our brothers, Egyptian Christian Copts who were killed because they did not want to renounce their faith”.
Egypt has been in a state of emergency since two suicide bombings killed 45 people at Coptic churches last month, following December’s slaughter of 29 Copts in a Cairo cathedral.
The bombing highlights Libya’s position as a haven for jihadist groups, with the civil war leaving much of the country in chaos and jihadi groups proliferating.
Neighbouring countries are also coming under attack from Libya-based jihadists. Tunisia is fighting a cat-and-mouse battle with Isis terrorists crossing back and forth from Libya. Seifeddine Rezgui, who killed 38 tourists, 30 of them British, on a beach in Sousse two years ago, was trained by Isis in the western Libyan town of Sabratha.
Isis itself is on the back foot in Libya, its main base at Sirte having been overrun in December after a bloody six-month campaign by Misrata militias backed by US airstrikes. But its response has been to withdraw further into Libya’s vast Sahara. On Friday, four Libyan soldiers were killed battling Isis near the desert town of Bani Walid.
Diplomats say airstrikes alone will not purge Libya of terrorists, and are pinning their hopes on the end of a civil war between Libya’s two rival governments to bring peace and allow terror groups to be cleaned out. That is a distant prospect, with Tripoli’s all-powerful militias fighting one of their periodic turf wars this weekend. The battle was witnessed on Friday by British ambassador Peter Millett who tweeted: “Can hear explosions & artillery fire in south Tripoli.”
The Foreign Office will not be offering consular visits to Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s father, Ramadan, and younger brother, Hashim, who were arrested by a pro-government militia last week. Salman Abedi is believed to have spent three weeks in Libya shortly before the attack.
source; theguardian
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Two Men Stabbed To Death In Oregon After Anti-Muslim Tirade
Police report that a man stabbed two train passengers to death Friday in Portland, Ore. after the men interrupted his anti-Muslim slurs.
Police arrested the perpetrator, Jeremy Joseph Christian, a 35-year-old Portland resident, the same day, reported Reuters. The attack occurred a few hours before the Friday evening start of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month.
Christian stabbed three men after they came to the defense of two apparent Muslim women, at whom the Portland Police Department say Christian was directing religious and ethnic pejoratives. One man died on the train, a second died at a hospital, and the last man received treatment for non-life threatening wounds.
Police delivered Christian to to Multnomah County Detention Center for aggravated murder, intimidation, attempted murder and carrying of a restricted weapon as a felon. Christian is being held without bail.
source;the daily caller
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British Airways cancels Saturday flights from Heathrow, Gatwick after IT outage
British Airways canceled all Saturday flights from London's two biggest airports after "a major IT system failure" caused severe disruption to flight operations worldwide, the airline said.
"Our IT teams are working tirelessly to fix the problems," British Airways CEO Alex Cruz said in a video posted on Twitter.
"We believe the root cause was a power supply issue and we have no evidence of any cyberattack."
The airline initially canceled only flights before 1 p.m. ET (6 p.m. BST) at Heathrow and Gatwick.
"We are working hard to get our customers who were due to fly today onto the next available flights over the course of the rest of the weekend," the airline said in a statement Saturday afternoon. "Those unable to fly will be offered a full refund."
The system outage -- on Britain's spring bank holiday weekend -- has "affected our call centers and our website but we will update customers as soon as we are able to," the airline said.
"We are extremely sorry for the huge inconvenience this is causing our customers and we understand how frustrating this must be, especially for families hoping to get away on holiday," Cruz said.
British Airways has not outlined how many flights were canceled, nor how many people were affected.
"Most long-haul flights due to land in London tomorrow (Sunday, May 28) are expected to arrive as normal, and we are working to restore our services from tomorrow, although some delays and disruption may continue into Sunday," the statement said.
In response to tweets from travelers, the airline said it was experiencing a "global system outage" affecting its website, online check-in, contact centers and baggage tracing.
"Working on this as a matter of priority, but if your flight is departing tomorrow you may have to complete check in at the airport," it tweeted to one customer.
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