Wednesday, Aug 16th
Last update05:20:13 AM GMT
International Glance
A van has reportedly crashed into pedestrians outside a mosque in London causing a "number of casualties".
Officers arrested one person after they were called shortly after midnight to the incident on Seven Sisters Road, near Finsbury Park station.
Police said they were responding to a "major incident" with "a number of casualties being worked on at the scene".
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Jihadists in Mali’s capital attacked a hotel resort popular with foreigners Sunday, taking hostages and killing at least two people, officials said.
About 30 people managed to escape the assault, which continued into the evening, according to authorities.
Gunfire first rang out at the Campement Kangaba on the outskirts of Bamako in the late afternoon, according to a security official with the U.N. mission known as MINUSMA.
“I heard gunfire coming from the camp and I saw people running out of the site,” said Modibo Diarra, who lives nearby. “I learned that it was a terrorist attack.”
TVNL Update: The death toll in this attack has risen to five.
Insulating panels added to the Grenfell Tower during an energy-efficiency renovation are banned in the U.S., U.K. and Germany on large buildings, a top-ranking British official said Sunday, questioning whether the panels played a major role in a fatal high-rise fire.
Speaking on BBC television, Chancellor Phillip Hammond said multiple formal inquiries are underway following the June 14 fire at the 24-story residential building, which killed at least 58 people. Video taken by witnesses during the fire shows flames racing up the outside of the building, where the insulating panels, known as cladding, were. Investigators say the burning panels may have acted like a chimney, making the fire more intense.
Hammond said investigations will determine why the supposedly banned panels were installed on a residential building, and who was responsible for the decision.
Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 62 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what the prime minister on Sunday called "the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years."
Nearly 60 other people were injured, including four firefighters and a seriously injured minor, Interior Ministry official Jorge Gomes told state broadcaster RTP.
Portugal declared three days of national mourning.
The Trump Organization dissolved subsidiaries created to pursue business opportunities in Qatar six days after Donald Trump was inaugurated as America's 45th president, according to a new financial disclosure form filed on his behalf.
Trump had turned managerial control over to his two adult sons before entering the White House, vowing his eponymous enterprise would not pursue more deals abroad as he served as president.
In recent days, Trump repeatedly has accused Qatar of funding extremists amid an effort by several Arab nations led by Saudi Arabia to isolate the peninsular nation.
Palestinian groups have rejected ISIL's claim of responsibility for Friday's attacks in Jerusalem, which left one Israeli police officer killed and resulted in Israeli soldiers killing three Palestinians.
It is the first attack in Israeli-occupied territory claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, known as ISIS) group. But the statement it released on Saturday appeared to have major discrepancies with Friday's events.
Three Palestinians attacked officers at the Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem late on Friday and were killed by Israeli security forces.
Protesters have stormed Kensington Town Hall, furious at the council’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire and have gathered in their hundreds outside the building.
Anger has built over the failure to prevent the fire that gutted the high-rise tower on Wednesday morning, killing at least 30 people, injuring scores and leaving many homeless.
As the long and complex process of identifying victims and recovering bodies continues, the death toll has been revised
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