July, 2016

• 10 July

  Prominent Cambodian critic gunned down in daylight hit

    Cambodia / AFP A prominent Cambodian political analyst known for his trenchant criticism of the government was shot dead Sunday morning at a convenience store, police said. The daylight slaying of Kem Ley comes at a time of heightened tensions between strongman premier Hun Sen and the country’s political opposition, who accuse the prime minister of launching a fresh ...

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• 10 July

  15 dead from floods in central India

    New Delhi / AFP Flash floods from torrential downpours in the in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have killed 15 people, with seven deaths over the weekend, and left thousands of people displaced, authorities said on Sunday. Indian news channels on Sunday showed footage of inundated cities in the state, with residents forced to wade through through ...

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• 10 July

  18 dead, 200 injured as police, protesters clash in Kashmir

  

    Srinagar / AFP Protesters and government forces in Indian Kashmir clashed for a second day on Sunday as anger over the death of an influential rebel leader boiled over, with 18 people killed in some of the worst civilian unrest to hit the region since 2010. Another 200 people have been wounded in the violence, many of them protesters ...

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• 10 July

  Bangladesh bans TV station, tracks students after attacks

    Dhaka / AFP Bangladesh moved to counter a deadly wave of extremist attacks Sunday, ordering an Islamic television station to stop broadcasting and telling schools to report any missing students. The measures come after several extremists were reported to be fans of the television channel, while others were found to be from elite universities but had been missing for ...

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• 10 July

  Obama meets Spanish King on symbolic but curtailed trip

  

    Madrid / AFP Barack Obama met Spain’s King Felipe in Madrid on Sunday, during a symbolic but abbreviated first presidential trip to Spain in the wake of America’s latest spasm of violence. Obama is squeezing in a visit to a key NATO and EU partner before dashing home to deal with the aftermath of a wrenching shooting in Dallas. ...

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• 10 July

  World’s biggest orchestra performs in German stadium

    Berlin / AFP More than 7,500 classical musicians performed in a German football arena at the weekend to set the world record for the biggest-ever orchestra. Amateur groups and full orchestras from Germany as well as Austria and the Netherlands took part in the mega-show Saturday evening in Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Arena, national news agency DPA reported. With 7,548 musicians involved, ...

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• 10 July

  Seven killed in two PKK attacks in Turkey: Army

    ISTANBUL, TURKEY / AFP Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) killed six Turkish soldiers and a village guardsman in two separate attacks on Sunday, the army said. Five Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on their military vehicle in Hakkari province on the road between the towns of Beyyurdu and Aktutun close to the border with northern ...

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• 10 July

  US polls risk becoming Brexit vote II: Hollande

  

    Bloomberg French President Francois Hollande, who last month endorsed Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential race, said the November ballot threatens to play out along similar lines to the U.K.’s European Union referendum. Just as U.K. voters rejected calls from political leaders and institutions to stay in the EU, a similarly anti-establishment sentiment may be brewing in the U.S., ...

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• 10 July

  Corbyn defiant as party cracks, joining Tories in UK disarray

    Bloomberg Jeremy Corbyn said he’ll confront a challenge to his U.K. Labour Party leadership head on as the fallout from the referendum to leave the European Union sparks a splintering of his opposition group. Corbyn, 67, has been battered since the June 23 vote. Dozens of his front-bench team have quit, he lost a no-confidence vote by a 172-40 ...

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• 10 July

  US racial tensions flare-up as protesters arrested

  

    Dallas / AFP Police arrested scores of people in demonstrations overnight Saturday to Sunday in several US cities, as racial tensions simmer over the killing of black men by police. Protesters led by the Black Lives Matter movement are demanding justice for two African-American men shot dead by cops, their dying moments captured in video that went viral online. ...

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