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The suspect in a car-ramming attack that killed 11 people and injured dozens at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver yesterday has been charged with eight counts of second degree murder, prosecutors have said.
More charges were possible against Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, the British Columbia prosecution service said. Investigators ruled out terrorism and said Lo had a history of mental health issues.
Some of the injured were in critical condition. As of yesterday evening authorities had not released the names of those killed, but said they were aged between five and 65.
What has the prime minister, Mark Carney, said? Just two days before a national election, Carney said the attack had left the country “shocked, devastated and heartbroken”. Vancouver’s interim police chief, Steve Rai, described the carnage as “the darkest day” in the city’s history.
Trump says he thinks Zelenskyy is ready to give up Crimea despite previous comments
The US president, Donald Trump, has said he thinks Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to give up Crimea, despite his Ukrainian counterpart’s previous assertions on the Black Sea peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014.
Speaking to reporters at an airport in New Jersey on Sunday, a day after meeting with Zelenskyy at the Vatican, Trump said: “Oh, I think so,” in response to a question on whether he thought Zelenskyy was ready to “give up” the territory.
Zelenskyy said last week that Ukraine could not accept US recognition of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, after Trump accused him of intransigence on the issue. Zelenskyy had insisted on Friday the territory was the “property of the Ukrainian people”. He did not immediately respond to Trump’s latest comments.
What else did Trump say? Despite the comments on Crimea, the US president expressed newfound sympathy for his Ukrainian counterpart yesterday, saying he “wants to do something good for his country” and “is working hard”.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say 68 dead in US airstrike on prison
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say a US airstrike has killed 68 people in a prison holding African detainees. The US military had no immediate comment.
The alleged strike in Yemen’s Saada governorate, a stronghold for the Houthis, is the latest incident in the country’s decade-long war in which people from Ethiopia and other countries who have risked crossing Yemen for a chance to work in neighbouring Saudi Arabia have died.
It is also likely to renew questions from activists about the US campaign, known as “Operation Rough Rider”, which has been targeting the rebels as the Trump administration negotiates with their main benefactor, Iran, over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme.
What has the US military’s Central Command said about the operations in Yemen? In a statement early this morning before news of the alleged strike broke, Central Command sought to defend its policy of offering no specific details of operations. The airstrikes have caused controversy in the US over the defence secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to post sensitive details about the attacks.
In other news …
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft last week of the US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem’s purse as she ate at a Washington DC restaurant, officials said yesterday.
More than 300 law enforcement officers from at least 10 federal agencies raided an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado Springs early yesterday, arresting more than 100 people authorities said were undocumented immigrants.
Ten people nicknamed the “grandpa robbers” by French media are to go on trial charged with stealing jewelry worth millions of euros from the American reality TV star Kim Kardashian when she attended Paris fashion week in 2016.
Don’t miss this: I used to laugh at my Chilean father’s paranoia about life in the US – not any more
“Don’t open the door to nobody,” my father warned throughout my childhood – right up until the day he died, writes Stacy Torres. Having fled here from Chile after Pinochet seized power in 1973 my father feared the state’s arbitrary power to turn lives upside down. He trusted no politicians, no organized religion and definitely no strangers knocking unannounced. Lately, his words echo louder than ever.
… or this: ‘I stopped talking to my parents – and life opened up’ – Heather Graham on family, ageing and ‘creepy’ film-makers
For almost all her life, Heather Graham says, she was a “people pleaser”. It was encouraged in childhood, she says, this obligation to put others’ needs above her own, and it endured even after the 1997 film Boogie Nights had made her a star and she had severed all contact with her “judgmental, authoritarian” parents. Now 55, Graham was in her 40s before she tried to correct course. She talks to Emine Saner about her #MeToo moment, her difficult childhood and her new movie, Chosen Family.
Climate check: Trump order to loosen fishing regulations poses major risks, experts warn
Environmental conservation groups are expressing major concerns over Donald Trump’s recent proclamation to reverse fishing regulations across the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine national monument, a federally protected area in the central Pacific Ocean spanning nearly 500,000 sq miles.
Last Thing: Greta Garbo documentary reveals star as ‘a relaxed, silly, funny person’
She is remembered as the ultimate reclusive film star, following her shock retirement at the height of her success. But the enduring image of Greta Garbo is being challenged by a new documentary that will show that, far from withdrawing from life – as in her most famous line, “I want to be alone” – she lived it to the full, partying with close friends.
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