July, 2016

• 9 July

  Tropical storm makes landfall in China

  

    Beijing / AFP A tropical storm made landfall in China Saturday afternoon, the country’s national meteorological center said, a day after super Typhoon Nepartak lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rain. Nepartak, which has weakened to a tropical storm since it brought chaos to Taiwan on Friday, hit the city of Shishi in the southeastern Fujian province at ...

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• 9 July

  UK’s May warns of tough Brexit, Leadsom flaunts motherhood

  

    Bloomberg The two rivals to become the U.K.’s next prime minister stepped up their campaigns, with Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom extolling the virtues of motherhood while Home Secretary Theresa May, who is childless, pledged to get Britain through the “difficult times” that Brexit would bring. David Cameron’s successor will be chosen by the Conservative Party’s 150,000 members. May, who ...

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• 9 July

  Iran says it will continue missile program, despite UN rebuke

    TEHRAN / AP Iran said on Saturday it will continue its ballistic missile program, after the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that the missile tests aren’t in the spirit of the country’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers. “Iran will strongly continue its missile program based on its own defense and national security calculations,” foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi ...

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• 9 July

  Protests in US cities as Dallas shooting rocks race relations

  

    VALDOSTA / AP Thousands of protesters marched in US cities late Friday, one day after a black extremist shot dead five cops who were protecting a peaceful march against police brutality in Texas. President Barack Obama said he will cut short a foreign trip and visit Dallas next week as the shooting rampage by the black army veteran, who ...

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• 9 July

  Speak out against US injustice and support cops, says Biden

  

    Washington / AFP Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday praised the five Dallas cops slain at a demonstration against police brutality, and also urged Americans to rally against disparities in the US criminal justice system. The message comes after days of marches in US cities over the deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in ...

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• 9 July

  More than 100 killed in South Sudan gunfire

  

    NAIROBI / AP Soldiers have brought scores of bodies to a hospital in South Sudan’s capital after gunfire erupted throughout Juba on Friday evening, a doctor at the hospital said on Saturday, as panicked residents worried of a return to civil war. The doctor said a total count of the dead was not available because soldiers were not allowing ...

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• 9 July

  4 killed, 60 injured as troops, protesters clash after rebel leader’s death in Kashmir

  

    SRINAGAR / AFP At least four protesters were killed and 60 injured in Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday after thousands defied a curfew following the death of a top rebel commander, officials said. Clashes spread across the disputed territory as protesters angry at the killing on Friday of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) leader Burhan Wani torched police stations and threw rocks at ...

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• 9 July

  Philanthropist Edhi, ‘Pakistan’s Angel of mercy’, buried after state funeral

  

    KARACHI / AP Tens of thousands of people attended the state funeral for Pakistan’s legendary philanthropist, Abdul Sattar Edhi, in Karachi on Saturday, officials said. Thousands more couldn’t get to the stadium where the funeral was held with a military honor guard, said local government official Nasir Habib. The 88-year-old charity worker died on Friday after a prolonged illness. Pakistan’s ...

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• 9 July

  India’s Modi marks Gandhi’s historic South African ride

  

    DURBAN / AP Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday was marking a historic train journey by Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi during the final day of his South African visit. Modi’s ride commemorated the incident in which a young Gandhi in 1893 was ejected from a South African train when he refused an order to move from a ...

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• 9 July

  The IS has made a big mistake

  

    WASHINGTON In the global revulsion at the past week’s terror attacks in four Muslim countries, the United States and its allies have a new opportunity to build a unified command against the IS and other extremists. But as the US seeks to broaden this counterterrorism alliance, it should be careful about partnering with Russia — unless Moscow distances itself ...

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