GUYANA
Fishermen might get guns
The threat of pirates near national waters has authorities in Georgetown considering a measure to allow fishermen to begin carrying weapons. The nation strictly controls the use of firearms and the government on Saturday said it is deciding whether to begin permitting deep-sea fishermen to carry guns while at sea. The fishermen would be required to turn in the weapons at police stations once they return to land. Second Vice President and Minister of Security Khemraj Ramjattan said he is open to the proposal because it is too expensive to have government boats and helicopters constantly patrol waters off the coast of the South American nation.
UNITED STATES
Sixth shark attack reported
Officials say a 17-year-old is the latest victim of a shark attack off North Carolina’s coast, the second attack in as many days and the sixth attack in the past two weeks. Rescue personnel and park rangers responded to the teen, who received what they described as injuries to his right calf, buttocks and both hands while swimming in the Outer Banks on Saturday, according to a Facebook post by the National Park Service. The teen was swimming with others when he was bitten, but no one else was hurt, officials said. The unidentified teenager was treated at the scene before being airlifted to a Norfolk, Virginia, hospital, the park service said. On Friday, a North Carolina man was bitten on his back and leg in Avon and 43-year-old man was attacked by a shark near Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
COLOMBIA
Rebels claim chopper attack
The second-largest guerrilla group in the nation said it downed a military helicopter, rejecting government assertions that other rebels were involved. The National Liberation Army issued a Twitter message on Saturday claiming responsibility for downing the UH-60M Black Hawk on Monday last week as troops were trying to repair a damaged oil pipeline about 425km northeast of Bogota, the capital. The government said the larger Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia hit the helicopter and it landed in a minefield, killing four soldiers. The government is holding peace talks in Cuba with the larger group. The National Liberation Army has sought establish a similar process.
UNITED STATES
9/11 writing prizes on offer
Leaders of a chapel in Manhattan that became a sanctuary of consolation after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are opening national writing competitions to foster reconciliation. The Episcopal Parish of Trinity Church plans to award one prize for preaching and six for storytelling. The winner of the preaching award is to deliver an original sermon on Sept. 11 at St Paul’s Chapel. Trinity’s rector, William Lupfer, said the idea for the competitions came about because visitors to the World Trade Center site still struggle to make sense of the attacks. Entries must be submitted between Wednesday and Aug. 1.
UNITED STATES
White lion dies after surgery
A white lion on loan from the Siegfried and Roy act has died after undergoing a medical procedure at the Toledo Zoo in Ohio. Zoo officials on Friday said that 14-year-old Legend died after being immobilized for an hour to allow veterinarians to treat one of its paws. Legend went into cardiac and respiratory arrest after being removed from anesthesia. A necropsy is to be performed to determine a cause of death. The zoo has another white lion, Legend’s 14-year-old brother, Courage.
In months, Lo Yuet-ping would bid farewell to a centuries-old village he has called home in Hong Kong for more than seven decades. The Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon is filled with small houses built from metal sheets and stones, as well as old granite buildings, contrasting sharply with the high-rise structures that dominate much of the Asian financial hub. Lo, 72, has spent his entire life here and is among an estimated 860 households required to move under a government redevelopment plan. He said he would miss the rich history, unique culture and warm interpersonal kindness that defined life in
AERIAL INCURSIONS: The incidents are a reminder that Russia’s aggressive actions go beyond Ukraine’s borders, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha said Two NATO members on Sunday said that Russian drones violated their airspace, as one reportedly flew into Romania during nighttime attacks on neighboring Ukraine, while another crashed in eastern Latvia the previous day. A drone entered Romanian territory early on Sunday as Moscow struck “civilian targets and port infrastructure” across the Danube in Ukraine, the Romanian Ministry of National Defense said. It added that Bucharest had deployed F-16 warplanes to monitor its airspace and issued text alerts to residents of two eastern regions. It also said investigations were underway of a potential “impact zone” in an uninhabited area along the Romanian-Ukrainian border. There
The governor of Ohio is to send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Tuesday said that he does not oppose the Temporary Protected Status program under which about 15,000 Haitians have arrived in the city of about 59,000 people since 2020, but said the federal government must do more to help affected communities. On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost directed his office to research legal avenues — including filing a lawsuit — to stop the federal government from sending
Three sisters from Ohio who inherited a dime kept in a bank vault for more than 40 years knew it had some value, but they had no idea just how much until just a few years ago. The extraordinarily rare coin, struck by the US Mint in San Francisco in 1975, could bring more than US$500,000, said Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections, which specializes in currency and is handling an online auction that ends next month. What makes the dime depicting former US president Franklin D. Roosevelt so valuable is a missing “S” mint mark for San Francisco, one of just two
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