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MNA International Desk: Three people were killed in a Michigan courthouse shooting. A US inmate at Michigan courthouse shot and killed two court officers and wounded a sheriff’s deputy on Monday during a struggle to escape before responding officers returned fire and killed him, officials said. Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey said in a news conference that “At about 2:25 (pm), we had a disturbance on the third floor of the courthouse. A person has shot two bailiffs, they are both deceased.” Bailey later added that the shooter was a prisoner who took a gun from one of two bailiffs ...

MNA International Desk: About 40 people were arrested and detained in Paris over Euro 2016 violence. The police was forced to use tear gas and water cannon against football supporters who were throwing glass bottles at officers at the Eiffel Tower during the Euro 2016 final on Sunday. Mobs of fans gathered at the base of the Paris landmark before and after Portugal’s stunning 1-0 victory over France after they were rejected entrance to the fan zone which was packed to its 90,000 measurements, Paris police said. Other captures moved outside the Stade de France where the match was played. ...

MNA International Desk: At least 11 people were killed and scores wounded in brutal clashes at southern Kashmir on Saturday as violence exploded over the killing of top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, flashing fears of an upsurge in militancy in the region. Wani’s body was buried in his hometown Tral amid mass wailing and angry anti-India slogans, a day after security forces gunned down the 21-year-old militant who was the face of militancy in Kashmir over the last five years. Protesters hurled stones, looted police weapons and set fire to three police stations and two government buildings in towns ...

MNA International Desk: Police militarization issue revives with Use of Dallas ‘bomb robot’. A veteran counter terrorism and security expert said that the way Dallas police bomb squad officers killed the suspected shooter in Thursday’s downtown attacks on police was a natural evolution of military style tactics used by US combat soldiers and marines overseas. Technology warfare experts said the use of a robot to kill someone had major technological and legal implications for 21st century policing. “It’s a first by police,” said Peter Singer, author of “Wired for War”, a book on the use of robots in conflict zones. ...

MNA International Desk: Two Russian officials were expelled after US diplomat attacked. According to reports, the United States has expelled two Russian officials in reprisal for the beating of a U.S. diplomat last month in Moscow, the State Department spokesman said Friday. “On June 17, we expelled two Russian officials from the United States to respond to this attack,” said spokesperson John Kirby. Kirby also said the attack was “unprovoked and it endangered the safety of our employee.” The Russian guard tackled and wounded the American after the diplomat showed him his embassy badge, State Department officials told to media. ...

MNA International Desk: Snipers gunned down five police officers and wounded seven others at Dallas during protests over two fatal police shootings of black men — a blast of violence described as the deadliest day for law enforcement since 9/11. One suspect died after a clash with cops in an El Centro College garage, police said. It was blurred if the suspect was killed or had shot himself. Two civilians also were wounded, including Shetamia Taylor, 37-year-old, who was shot in the calf and was undergoing surgery Friday morning, Mayor Mike Rawlings said. Four of the slain cops were members ...

MNA International Desk: Reportedly, US-led strikes pound Islamic State in Iraq as that kill 250 fighters. US-led alliance aircraft paid a series of deadly strikes against Islamic State around the city of Falluja on Wednesday, US officials reported media, with one citing a preliminary approximation of at least 250 suspected troops killed and at least 40 vehicles destroyed. If the figures are confirmed, the strikes would be among the most deadly ever against the jihadist group. The officials spoke on condition of secrecy to describe the operation and noted preliminary estimates can change. The attacks, which the officials said took ...

MNA International Desk: According to a report released by Amnesty International on Tuesday showed that Mexico’s law enforcement agency (Mexico Police) and armed forces regularly torture and abuse arrested women, sometimes using sexual violence during arrest and interrogation. The rights group interviewed 100 women who reported violence during arrest, all of whom described having been the victim of some form of sexual harassment or psychological mistreatment. Seven in ten of the women reported sexual violence during arrest or in the hours that followed. Electric shocks to the genitals, rape with objects, fingers, firearms and the penis, severe beatings and near-asphyxiation, ...

MNA International Desk: At least 36 people were killed in suicide attack at Istanbul airport. Reportedly, a triple suicide bombing at Istanbul’s main international airport on Tuesday night has left 36 dead and as many as 150 injured in a suspected ISIL attack. One attacker opened fire in the departures hall with an automatic rifle, sending passengers diving for cover and trying to flee, before all three blew themselves up in or around the arrivals hall a floor below, witnesses and officials said. The attack on Europe’s third-busiest airport is one of the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings ...

MNA International Desk: At least 15 die as Islamist militants attack hotel in Mogadishu. These people were killed and several others wounded Saturday in an attack carried out by al-Qaida-affiliated militants on a well-known hotel in the Somali capital. Firing echoed around the seaside city after the blast and ambulances raced to the scene.Police Major Ali Mohamed said the death toll included guards, civilians and militants. “We attacked the hotel which was frequented by the apostate government members,” al-Shabaab military operations spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab said. “The operation has now ended but we are still combing the building for ...

MNA International Desk: David Cameron resigns as prime minister after Britain votes Brexit as it was inevitable. David Cameron paid the price for his failure to secure Britain’s future in the European Union announcing his resignation and admitting the country now needed “fresh leadership”. Flanked by his wife and at one stage close to tears Mr. Cameron said it would be wrong for him “to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination.” He declared that he would stay on in a caretaker capacity but expected a new leader to be in place by the time of ...

MNA International Desk: Thousands of people through Britain cast vote on Thursday in a historic battled, knife-edge referendum that could tear up the island nation’s EU future membership and spark the utmost emergency of the block’s 60-year history. A record 46.5 million voters are signed up to take a permanent decision on Britain’s future in the 28-nation European Union. In this referendum each voter must write a cross by one of two options: “Remain a member of the European Union” “Leave the European Union” World financial markets, like voters, are in suspense over the result. Two polls – both conducted ...

MNA International Desk: British MP Jo Cox was murdered for her “very strong political views”, her widower has said in his first interview on Tuesday since her death. Talking in an interview with the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr. Cox said the expression of public support and a £1m charitable fund had been sources of relaxation to the couple’s two children. The late MP’s husband said he would be pleased if she was replaced as the representative for Batley and Spen by a female politician, saying it would be ‘lovely symbolism’. Ms. Cox was shot and knifed in the ...

MNA International Desk: A man detained over the weekend, trying to take a gun from a police officer at a Las Vegas rally arranged by probable Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, told an investigator that, he wanted to kill the candidate. Michael Steven Sandford, 19-year-old, was detained on Saturday at the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas after trying to disarm the officer, according to Las Vegas police, who said he had been passed over to the US Secret Service. According to court documents filed on Monday in federal court in Nevada, Sandford told a Secret Service agent that he ...

MNA International Desk: Six people were killed and 53 injured from clashes in Mexico on Sunday. The clashes broke out between members of National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE), a teachers’ trade union against the police at a protest. It was the worst occurrence in a wave of protests over the past several months against education reforms that the government pressed through three years ago. The teachers from the radical wing of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) are opposite to the obligatory challenge of teachers as part of Mexico’s education reform and are also objecting the arrest of ...

MNA International Desk: According to reports, three Belgians were charged with terrorism offences. Belgian prosecutors charged three men with terrorism crimes on Saturday following overnight searches that took place amid keen security in Belgium and France due to the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. Three months after Islamist bombers killed 32 people in Brussels, police huntedhuge houses across the country and detained 12 people the night before Belgium’s Euro 2016 game against Ireland. The federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement, “Nine of them were released after interrogation but three Belgian citizens recognized were charged with having attempted to commit a ...

MNA International Desk: Decapitated bodies of seven men have been found on a rural road in Mexico’s drug cartel-plagued north-west state of Sinaloanear which is the heart of jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s old home turf, a state law enforcement official said on Friday. Martin Robles, Sinaloa’s deputy attorney general, told that in the state capital of Culiacan the seven men were loggers attacked near the town of Rosario, located about 60 miles south of the Pacific resort of Mazatlan. The victims, who were between 22 and 49 years old, were shot dead on Thursday in the community ...

MNA International Desk: Egyptian investigators said they have marked wreckage of the cabin of lost Egypt Air flight MS804. The plane crashed last month in the Mediterranean Sea, and investigators dreaded signals from its black boxes would decease soon. The Egyptian committee exploring the plane’s disappearance said on Wednesday it had covered pieces of the plane cabin in some places, a finding that might help bring a determination to the month-long question of why the plane stopped. In an announcement, the investigation committee confirmed that the John Lethbridge, one of two ships contracted by the Egyptians to quest for the wreckage ...

MNA International Desk: President Barack Obama threw a direct attack on Donald Trump over Muslim ban on Tuesday, saying the probable GOP nominee’s anti-Muslim rhetoric “betrays the very values that America stands for.” For months, Trump has called for a prohibition on allowing Muslims into the United States, and he indirectly, during a speech on Monday said that, Muslim communities are protecting terrorists, including the culprits of the Orlando and San Bernardino shootings. Obama argued such comments are not only anti-American but helps ISIS and other extremist groups by isolating Muslims in the United States and around the world. “Where ...

MNA International Desk: Trump hardens his stance on Muslims after Florida shooting as the incident seems to just help the barbaric statements he was earlier making. Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump placed responsibility for a mass shooting in Florida directly at the feet of radical Muslims, who he said were entering the country amidst a flood of refugees and ‘trying to take over our children.’ He represented on the country’s deadliest mass shooting to improve his vow to ban Muslim immigrants, suggesting that the United States suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is ‘a proven history of ...

MNA International Desk: A guy armed with an attack rifle and pledging loyalty to Islamic State killed 50 people during a gay pride festivity at a night club in Orlando, Florida, early on Sunday. Police killed the gunman named Omar Mateen, 29-year-old, a New York-born Florida inhabitant and US citizen of Afghan origin. He was twice questioned by FBI agents in recent years, authorities said. Mateen’s former wife said he was expressively and psychologically troubled with a violent temper, yet sought to be a police officer. According to G4S, working for the global security firm G4S during the past nine ...

MNA International Desk: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, in an online audio message, pledged commitment to the new head of the Afghan Taliban, who was selected last month after his predecessor was killed in a US drone strike. The veteran Islamist militant became al Qaeda’s leader after U.S. Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, and he is thought to be hiding in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, having been based there since the late 1990s. “As leader of the al Qaeda organization for jihad, I extend my pledge of allegiance once again, the approach of Osama to ...

MNA International Desk: Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff calls for a referendum on whether to hold early elections if she survives removal from office in an impeachment trial that is expected to conclude in August. “We must consult the population to rebuild a constitutional pact that was broken by the impeachment process,” Rousseff said in an interview aired on Thursday night. Under the Brazilian electoral timetable, presidential elections are scheduled every four years, with the next due in 2018. Rousseff’s offer for early elections, which are not provided for by the Constitution, is seen by many political analysts as a ...

MNA International Desk: According to reports, Saudi gave free pass to bomb schools and hospitals in Yemen. On Thursday last week, the UN secretary general listed Saudi Arabia responsible for killing children, bombing hospitals and schools. This places Saudi Arabia and the coalition it leads in the dubious company of ISIS, the Taliban, al-Shabaab and the Lord’s Resistance Army in the blacklist of organizations violating children’s rights in a conflict area. Saudi Arabia had been removed them from the list on Monday, erasing much of the UN’s credibility when it comes to defending human rights. This unexpected improvement is hard ...

MNA International Desk: A United Nations (UN) whistleblower who was suspended for revealing the sexual abuse of children by peacekeepers resigns over the organization’s failure to hold senior officials to account. Anders Kompass, director of field operations at the UN human rights office in Geneva, proclaimed his resignation on Tuesday. Speaking to humanitarian news agency Irin, Mr. Kompass said he was leaving because of “the complete impunity for those who have been found to have, in various degrees, abused their authority, together with the unwillingness of the hierarchy to express any regrets for the way they acted towards me”. Earlier ...

MNA International Desk: Hillary Clinton has been finalized as the Democratic nomination in the upcoming race for becoming the next US President. Hillary Clinton collected promises from sufficient delegates to become the probable presidential nominee for the Democratic Party on Monday, securing enough of them to overcome a bruising challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders and turn to a brutal five-month campaign against Donald J. Trump. In a yearlong nomination fight full of surprise twists, from the popularity of Mr. Sanders to the success of Mr. Trump, the revelation that Mrs. Clinton had clinched the nomination was another startling development especially ...

MNA International Desk: Fierce wild weather shattered in Australian east coast and beat up giant waves over storm on Sydney beaches and has left at least three people dead and others missing, police said on Monday. Vicious storms crushed the coast over the weekend, instigating flooding in New South Wales while huge seas, with waves up to 12 meters (40 feet), produced unadorned coastal erosion, in one instance sweeping away the in-ground swimming pool of a beach side home. “This storm, which was so ferocious, has taken life from us,” New South Wales premier Mike Baird said. “Up and down ...