UNITED STATES
Six die in highway pileup
Six people have died after a dust storm fueled by wind gusts topping 100kph caused a pileup on Friday evening on Interstate 90 in Montana, authorities said. Twenty-one vehicles crashed and Montana Highway Patrol Sergeant Jay Nelson said authorities believe the weather was the cause. “It appears as though there was heavy winds, causing a dust storm with zero visibility,” he said. The highway patrol did not have an immediate count of the number of injuries.
UNITED STATES
Man shot dozens of times
Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old black man who died last month at the hands of police in Akron, Ohio, was shot dozens of times, with 26 bullets recovered from his body, according to a preliminary autopsy report released on Friday. Lisa Kohler, the Summit County medical examiner, said it was impossible for her office to say which bullet killed Walker or the number of shots that were fired. Walker “had several very devastating injuries that would cause death,” including injuries to his heart, lungs and arteries, Kohler said. She tallied 41 entry wounds and five wounds from bullets that grazed Walker. Preliminary findings released earlier indicated Walker’s body had more than 60 wounds.
UNITED STATES
Trump death ruled accident
Ivana Trump, the first wife of former president Donald Trump and mother to his eldest children, died accidentally from blunt impact injuries to her torso, the New York City medical examiner’s office said on Friday. Police had been looking into whether she fell down the stairs, two people familiar with the matter told reporters on Thursday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they could not discuss the matter publicly. The medical examiner’s brief report did not specify when the accident took place. Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Ivana Trump died at her home near Central Park on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She was 73. Her son Eric Trump said it was “a very sad day, a very sad day,” as he left the home on Thursday.
MACAU
Virus lockdown extended
The territory’s government extended a lockdown of casinos and other businesses until Friday, as authorities grapple to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the world’s biggest gambling hub. The lockdown in the Chinese special administrative region had been due to end tomorrow. Macau imposed the shutdown on Monday, shuttering the territory’s economic engine — its casinos — and forbidding residents from leaving their apartments, except for essential activities such as grocery shopping. The territory has recorded about 1,700 COVID-19 cases since the middle of last month. More than 20,000 people are in mandatory quarantine.
UNITED STATES
ISS cooperation to continue
NASA astronauts would go back to riding Russian rockets under an agreement announced on Friday, and Russian cosmonauts would catch lifts to the International Space Station (ISS) with SpaceX beginning this fall. The agreement ensures that the space station would always have at least one US and Russian on board to keep both sides of the orbiting outpost running smoothly, NASA and Russian officials said. The swap had long been in the works and was finalized despite tensions over Moscow’s war in Ukraine, a sign of continuing Russia-US cooperation in space.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law in an unannounced late night address broadcast live on YTN television. Yoon said he had no choice but to resort to such a measure in order to safeguard free and constitutional order, saying opposition parties have taken hostage of the parliamentary process to throw the country into a crisis. "I declare martial law to protect the free Republic of Korea from the threat of North Korean communist forces, to eradicate the despicable pro-North Korean anti-state forces that are plundering the freedom and happiness of our people, and to protect the free
‘ANCIENT AND MODERN’: The project, which took 22 years to complete, unearthed more than 300,000 treasures now on display across the network It caused untold commotion, decades of disruption and — among historians and archeologists — controversy and despair, but at midday on Saturday, the antiquities-rich subterranean world of Thessaloniki opened to a world of driverless trains and high-tech automation with the inauguration of its long-awaited subway. The excitement on the streets of the northern Greek port city is almost palpable. “Archaeologically, it has been an extremely complex and difficult endeavor,” said Greek Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs Lina Mendoni of the more than 300,000 finds made since construction began 22 years ago. “To get here required a battle on many
The US deployed a reconnaissance aircraft while Japan and the Philippines sent navy ships in a joint patrol in the disputed South China Sea yesterday, two days after the allied forces condemned actions by China Coast Guard vessels against Philippine patrol ships. The US Indo-Pacific Command said the joint patrol was conducted in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone by allies and partners to “uphold the right to freedom of navigation and overflight “ and “other lawful uses of the sea and international airspace.” Those phrases are used by the US, Japan and the Philippines to oppose China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the
‘AMERICA FIRST’: Patel, 44, previously called for stripping the FBI of its intelligence-gathering role and purging its ranks of anyone who refuses to support Trump’s agenda US president-elect Donald Trump has tapped Kash Patel to be FBI director, nominating a loyalist to lead the chief US law enforcement agency — which Trump has long derided as corrupt. Patel rose to prominence expressing outrage over the agency’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. With the nomination of Patel, Trump is signaling that he is preparing to carry out his threat to oust FBI Director Christopher Wray, a Republican first appointed by Trump during his first term as president, whose 10-year term at the FBI does not expire until 2027. FBI
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