MEXICO
Massacre commemorated
Several thousand students on Sunday marched through Mexico City to mark the anniversary of a 1968 massacre in which troops fired on protesters in Tlatelolco Plaza, killing an unknown number. Police guarded the march route and steel and wood barriers protected businesses that are often vandalized during the annual marches. One of the top leaders of the 1968 student movement, writer and columnist Luis Gonzalez de Alba, was reportedly found dead on Sunday at his home. No further details were available.
FRANCE
Kim Kardashian robbed
Reality television star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint at a private Paris residence on Sunday night by assailants disguised as police who made off with millions of US dollars, mainly in jewelry, police officials and her representative said yesterday. Paris police said the loss amounted to “several million euros, mostly jewelry,” adding that they were still assessing the total amount stolen and had opened an investigation. Police said the robbers tied her up and locked her in the bathroom before escaping on bikes. A Kardashian spokeswoman said that she was “badly shaken, but physically unharmed.” On hearing the news, Kardashian’s husband, rapper Kanye West, abruptly ended a festival appearance in New York, citing a “family emergency.”
UNITED STATES
Conviction in steak murder
A Tennessee man has been convicted of killing his grandson in April 2014 in an argument over a steak. The Commercial Appeal newspaper reported that 65-year-old Harold Gray of Frayser was convicted last week of reckless homicide in Shelby County Criminal Court in Memphis. According to court records, Gray got into an argument with 31-year-old Anthony Morris about Morris looking at a steak in his refrigerator. Gray then stabbed Morris with a kitchen knife. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 4.
UNITED STATES
Long-loved turtle sought
Baltimore police are at a loss and an elderly couple are desperate. Their beloved companion — a 78-year-old red-eared slider turtle named Moses — went missing more than two weeks ago from a kiddie pool in their yard. Gloria Todd have turned to the media in a last-ditch plea to bring Moses home. “I was shocked that he was gone,” Todd, 83, told the Baltimore Sun. “I couldn’t believe that someone would come on to my property and take something that did not belong to them, especially a living thing.” The turtle, one of two turtles Todd was given as a five-year-old. In all that time, Todd said, Moses never went missing — which is why she and her husband of 60 years, Pete, are convinced foul play is involved.
PORTUGAL
Plane returns with worker
An airplane bound for Angola on Saturday was forced to make an emergency landing in Lisbon after a cargo worker was reported missing — and the man was found inside the cargo hold, alive but suffering from hypothermia. Lisbon airport spokesman Rui Oliveira on Sunday said that the TAAG Angola Airlines plane left the city of Porto about 10am, headed for Luanda. The worker was reported missing in Porto after loading cargo on the airplane and believed to be trapped inside the cargo hold, Oliveira said. The plane made an emergency landing about 11am. Oliveira said the worker was in stable condition at a hospital in Lisbon.
Republican US lawmakers on Friday criticized US President Joe Biden’s administration after sanctioned Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei unveiled a laptop this week powered by an Intel artificial intelligence (AI) chip. The US placed Huawei on a trade restriction list in 2019 for contravening Iran sanctions, part of a broader effort to hobble Beijing’s technological advances. Placement on the list means the company’s suppliers have to seek a special, difficult-to-obtain license before shipping to it. One such license, issued by then-US president Donald Trump’s administration, has allowed Intel to ship central processors to Huawei for use in laptops since 2020. China hardliners
A top Vietnamese property tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to death in one of the biggest corruption cases in history, with an estimated US$27 billion in damages. A panel of three hand-picked jurors and two judges rejected all defense arguments by Truong My Lan, chair of major developer Van Thinh Phat, who was found guilty of swindling cash from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) over a decade. “The defendant’s actions ... eroded people’s trust in the leadership of the [Communist] Party and state,” read the verdict at the trial in Ho Chi Minh City. After the five-week trial, 85 others were also sentenced on
Conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell, who pursued separate careers, interests and relationships during lives that defied medical expectations, died this month in Pennsylvania, funeral home officials said. They were 62. The twins, listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest living conjoined twins, died on April 7 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, obituaries posted by Leibensperger Funeral Homes of Hamburg said. The cause of death was not detailed. “When we were born, the doctors didn’t think we’d make 30, but we proved them wrong,” Lori said in an interview when they turned 50, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The
RAMPAGE: A Palestinian man was left dead after dozens of Israeli settlers searching for a missing 14-year-old boy stormed a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank US President Joe Biden on Friday said he expected Iran to attack Israel “sooner, rather than later” and warned Tehran not to proceed. Asked by reporters about his message to Iran, Biden simply said: “Don’t,” underscoring Washington’s commitment to defend Israel. “We are devoted to the defense of Israel. We will support Israel. We will help defend Israel and Iran will not succeed,” he said. Biden said he would not divulge secure information, but said his expectation was that an attack could come “sooner, rather than later.” Israel braced on Friday for an attack by Iran or its proxies as warnings grew of