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CITY
HILIGHTS
Vol 1, Issue 202 `.1.00/-
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
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WORLD
Source of arms used
in Bangla cafe attack
traced
Dhaka: Bangladeshi police
on Monday said they have
succeeded in tracing the
source of the not-so-modern
weaponry used by terrorists
to attack an upscale cafe here
that killed 22 people, including
an Indian girl.
The police said they were
now trying to arrest the suppliers
of the weapons and
have sought “help of the general
people”.
“We have been able to
trace the source of the weapons.
We are trying to arrest
those who supplied the
weapons,” Inspector General
of Police AKM Shahidul
Haque told reporters.
“The arms used in the attacks
were not very modern.
We have found the source
from where the attackers
got them [arms]. The mastermind
of the attacks have
been identified and they are
under surveillance.”
He said the police were
trying to combat militancy
by awareness and prevention
and needed “help of the general
people” in bringing the
masterminds of the 12-hourlong
carnage to book.
Two dead in Florida
nightclub shooting
Houston/Fort Myers:
At least two persons were
killed and 17 others injured
on Monday in a shooting at a
night club hosting a teen party
in Florida, over a month
after a gunman killed 49 people
in the state in the worst
mass shooting incident in US
history.
The shooting occurred
around 12.30 am in the parking
lot of Club Blu Bar and
Grill in Fort Myers, Florida.
Three suspect has been detained,
the police said.
“The numbers, they’re
sort of fluctuating. We have
multiple hospitals calling in.
We’re trying to confirm. So,
15 to 17. We do have two
confirmed dead,” Captain Jim
Mulligan of the Fort Myers
Police Department said.
“Officers arrived on scene.
Found multiple people suffering
from various levels
of gunshot wounds. EMS
was called, multiple units
responded. Helped triage
transport multiple people
from the scene,” he said.
China, North Korea envoys
hold talks in Laos
Vientiane: Top envoys
from China and North Korea
held talks on Monday on the
sidelines of a regional summit
in Laos as tensions run
high on the Korean peninsula
over Pyongyang’s nuclear
programme.
North Korea’s newly minted
Foreign Minister Ri Yong-
Ho, a former nuclear negotiator
for the hermit state,
and his Chinese counterpart
Wang Yi met in the capital
Vientiane.
It is the first time Ri has
attended a major diplomatic
gathering since his appointment
in May. A phalanx of security
guards from both Laos
and North Korea guarded the
room where the meeting was
taking place.
Relations between Beijing
and Pyongyang have frayed
this year after North Korea’s
fourth nuclear test and a series
of missile launches put
the region on edge.
In response to the new
tests the most recent of which
was last Tuesday Washington
and Seoul announced plans
to deploy a US missile defence
system in South Korea,
sparking fury in Pyongyang
and concern in Beijing.
In the face of continued
North Korean provocation,
the United States spearheaded
the drafting of a new UN
resolution adopted unanimously
in March by Security
Council members, including
China North Korea’s main
diplomatic protector and
economic benefactor.
SYRIAN MIGRANT SETS OFF EXPLOSION AT
GERMAN BAR WOUNDING DOZENS
Berlin: A Syrian migrant
set off an explosion at a bar
in southern Germany killing
himself and wounding
a dozen others, authorities
said. This is the third attack
to hit Bavaria in a week.
The 27-year-old, who
had a stint at a psychiatric
facility, had intended to
target a music festival in
the city of Ansbach but was
turned away because he
did not have a ticket.
AFGHAN CIVILIAN CASUALTIES SOAR
TO RECORD HIGH: UN
Kabul: Civilian casualties
in Afghanistan soared
to a record high in the first
half of 2016, the UN said on
Monday, with children in
particular paying a heavy
price as insurgents step
up fighting and insecurity
grows.
The UN report, which
comes two days after the
deadliest attack in Kabul
since 2001, cited ground
combat between militants
and NATO-backed Afghan
forces as the leading cause
of casualties.
Between January and
June, 1,601 civilians were
killed and 3,565 were
wounded a four percent
increase in casualties compared
to the same period
last year, the United Nations
Assistance Mission in
Afghanistan (UNAMA) said.
The casualties have
reached their highest level
since the UN began issuing
its authoritative reports in
2009.
PRINCE HARRY REGRETS NOT SPEAKING
ABOUT PRINCESS DIANA’S DEATH
London: Britain’s Prince
Harry has expressed regret
that he did not speak about
his mother Princess Diana’s
death until years later.
The 31-year-old, fifth
in line to Britain’s throne,
spoke out about the loss of
his mother in a car crash in
Paris in 1997 at an event he
hosted at Kensington Palace
in London last week for
the mental health charity,
Heads Together.
TURNBULL SEEKS TIGHTENING SECURITY LAWS IN AUSTRALIA
Melbourne: Australian
Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull, on Monday termed
as “real” the threat of terrorism
in Australia while proposing
to tighten security
laws which will also pave the
way to indefinitely extend
detention of “high-risk” terrorists.
“Unfortunately, this is a
terrible attack which will
surely increase people’s
anxiety,” Regional Interior
Minister Joachim Herrmann
said, adding that investigators
“have not ruled
out” he had an Islamist motive.
Hermann said, he was
worried “the right to asylum
would be undermined”
by the events of the past
week, which has seen attacks
on a train and shopping
mall in the southern
German state.
The explosion happened
just outside a bar in Ansbach
city centre, not far
from where more than
2,000 people had gathered
for the concert, at around
10:00 pm on Sunday.
Police have blocked off
The casualties include
1,509 children roughly
one-third of the total a figure
the UN described as
“alarming and shameful”.
The statistics are a grim
indicator of growing insecurity
in Afghanistan as
the Taliban step up their
nationwide insurgency
and the Islamic State group
seeks to expand their foothold
in the east of the country.
“Every single casualty
documented in this report
people killed while praying,
working, studying, fetching
water, recovering in hospitals
every civilian casualty
represents a failure of commitment
and should be a
call to action for parties to
the conflict to take meaningful
steps to reduce civilians’
suffering,” UNAMA
chief Tadamichi Yamamoto
said.
“Platitudes not backed
by meaningful action ring
hollow over time. History
“I really regret not ever
talking about it. For the
first 28 years of my life,
I never talked about it,”
he told former England
captain Rio Ferdinand in
a programme aired in the
UK on Monday.
Ferdinand, a father of
three who lost his wife to
cancer last year, said of the
prince: “He’s gone through
different stages in his life
that my kids are going to
be going towards.So to get
some of his experiences is
very rewarding for me and
very educational in many
ways.”
Harry was just 12-yearold
when Diana - Princess of
Wales, died suddenly in the
tragic accident, leading to
Turnbull said “the recent
attacks in Nice and Orlando
show an increase in the frequency
and severity of terrorism
in the West or against
Western interests. And the
weekend terrorist attack on
civilians in Kabul was the
deadliest in 15 years”.
Turnbull wrote to state
premiers and chief ministers,
asking them to agree on
the design of nationally consistent
laws for the indefinite
detention of terrorists who
pose a threat to the public at
the end of their sentence.
“This system will enable a
the area and emergency
services were at the scene.
Bomb experts were also
sent to determine the cause
of the blast.
Ansbach Deputy Police
Chief, Roman Fertinger
said, there were “indications”
that pieces of metal
had been added to the explosive
device.
The perpetrator was
killed in the explosion, police
said in a statement,
and a spokeswoman said
12 people were wounded,
three of them seriously.
Herrmann said the attacker,
who came to Germany
two years ago but had
his asylum claim rejected
after a year, had tried to kill
himself twice in the past
and had spent time in a
psychiatric clinic.
Europe has been on edge
for months after a string of
deadly attacks claimed by
the Islamic State jihadist
group, including bombings
in Brussels and carnage at
Bastille Day celebrations in
the southern French city of
Nice.
and the collective memory
of the Afghan people will
judge leaders of all parties
to this conflict by their actual
conduct.”
The UN report said insurgent
groups including
the Taliban were responsible
for the majority 60 percent
of civilian casualties.
But it also reported a
47 percent increase in
the number of casualties
caused by pro-government
forces, compared to the
same period last year.
an outpour of public grief.
On 31 August 1997, Diana
was killed in a car crash in
Paris, which also caused the
deaths of her companion
Dodi Fayed and the driver.
The royal told the BBC
the charity event was an
opportunity to highlight
that anyone can suffer from
mental health issues.
“It is OK to suffer, but as
long as you talk about it. It is
not a weakness. Weakness
is having a problem and not
recognising it and not solving
that problem,” he said.
Prince Harry had formed
Heads Together in May this
year with his brother William,
Duke of Cambridge,
and sister-in-law Kate,
Duchess of Cambridge, to
continuing period of imprisonment
for high-risk terrorist
offenders,” Turnbull said.
“It will be supervised by
the courts similarly to the
arrangements that apply in a
number of our jurisdictions
for sex offenders and extremely
violent individuals,”
he said.
“Our law enforcement
and security agencies are
among the best in the world
but we have to ensure they
In Bavaria, which has
been a gateway for thousands
of Syrian refugees,
nine died in a shooting
rampage in Munich on
Friday and several people
were wounded in an axe attack
on a train near Wuerzburg.
Police released more details
of Munich attacker David
Ali Sonboly on Sunday,
saying the 18-year-old was
depressed and had spent
two months in a psychiatric
unit last year.
The teen was obsessed
with mass killings and
spent a year preparing for
the gun attack that killed
nine people, most of them
foreigners.
At least 35 people were
also wounded during Sonboly’s
shooting spree,
which began at a McDonald’s
branch and ended
with him turning his 9mm
Glock pistol on himself.
Investigators have ruled
out any link with the jihadists,
though he appears to
have planned the assault
with chilling precision.
“The testimony of victims
and their families
brings into agonising focus
the tragedy of this protracted
conflict since 2009,” said
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the
UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights.
“The family that lost a
breadwinner, forcing the
children to leave school
and struggle to make ends
meet; the driver who lost
his limbs, depriving him
of his livelihood; the man
who went to the bazaar to
shop for his children only
to return home to find them
dead.
bring together leading mental
health charities.
The event was attended
by a number of British
sports stars, including athletes
Dame Kelly Holmes
and Iwan Thomas, and cyclist
Victoria Pendleton, to
show that “unflappable”
sporting personalities can
suffer from mental health
problems like everyone
else, including members of
the royal family.
“A lot of people think if
you’ve got a job, if you’ve got
financial security, if you’ve
got a family, you’ve got a
house, all that sort of stuff,
everyone seems to think
that is all you need and you
are absolutely fine to deal
with stuff,” the prince said.
have the powers they need,”
he said, adding that new
counter-terrorism legislation
amendment would be
introduced in the Parliament.
The bill, originally introduced
in 2015, would also
extend juvenile control orders
from 16-year-olds to
children as young as 14. It
would also introduce a new
offence of advocating genocide
to further respond to
SE ASIA NATIONS GIVE WATERED-DOWN
CHINA REBUKE
Vientiane: Southeast
Asian nations have delivered
a watered-down rebuke
to China for its territorial
expansion in the
South China Sea, in a diplomatic
victory for China.
After deadlocked negotiations
among the 10
members of the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations,
the grouping issued
a joint statement on Monday
expressing concern
over China’s activities, but
repeating much of what it
has said before.
It also failed to mention
a recent ruling by an international
arbitration panel
that said China’s claims
over virtually the entire
South China Sea was illegal.
China’s claims overlap
with those of the Philippines,
Malaysia, Vietnam
and Brunei.
Attempts to rebuke
China within ASEAN were
stymied by its ally Cambodia,
and to some extent
Laos.
In its statement, the
AESAN ministers said
that they “remain seriously
concerned over
recent and ongoing developments.”
They also said, “We
reaffirmed the importance
of maintaining
and promoting peace,
security, stability, safety
and freedom of navigation
in and over-flight above
the South China Sea.”
The statement is a victory
for China, which has
used every diplomatic
muscle in its power to
prevent criticism of its actions.
It came after a highly anticipated
meeting between
Southeast Asian foreign
ministers and their Chinese
counterpart ended
amid expectations that the
two sides discussed China’s
territorial expansion
in the South China Sea.
Chinese Foreign Minister
Wang Yi did not speak
to reporters after the
meeting on Monday with
ministers and officials
from the 10 countries that
make up the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations.
ASEAN is divided on
whether to rebuke China
for its territorial ambitions,
which infringes on
areas claimed by four AE-
SAN member nations. Most
of them want to, but Cambodia,
a key Beijing ally,
and Laos do not want to be
critical of China.
MANY CHINESE ONLINE NEWSPAPERS
SHUT DOWN, INTERNET PROTOCOL
Beijing: China has shut
down several online news
operations after authorities
blasted them for independently
reporting and
publishing articles about
potentially sensitive subjects,
on Monday.
Major Chinese-language
portals including
Sina, Sohu, Netease and
iFeng have closed some
of their freewheeling political
and social news
sites and social network
accounts after Beijing’s
internet control department
“harshly criticised”
their “huge amount of activities
violating the law
and regulations”, the Beijing
News reported.
The programmes “uploaded
and published a
large number of news reports
gathered and edited
by themselves”, causing
“particularly vile impact”,
it said, citing an unnamed
official with the department.
The sites are also facing
fines, the official added,
without giving details.
Journalists at privately
operated Chinese news
portals are only accredited
to cover sports or
entertainment events,
and are required to use
reports released by
state-controlled media
such as the official Xinhua
news agency for more
sensitive news related to
politics and society.
But some sites, largely
driven by commercial
interests, have formed
their own news gathering
or even investigative reporting
teams to compete
in a high-tech era where
self-reporting is flourishing
and hot social issues
are changing day by day.
China’s Communist Party
brooks no opposition to
its rule and the country’s
newspapers, websites,
and broadcast media are
strictly controlled by the
government, while an
army of censors patrol social
media to delete comments
deemed taboo.
Many Western news
websites are blocked
within the country. Controls
have tightened considerably
since President
Xi Jinping took office in
2013.
Last February, the leader
made a pointed visit to
state broadcaster CCTV,
where he said that media
should focus on “positive
reporting”, and “speak the
Party’s will and protect
the Party’s authority and
unity”.
In the second quarter
of 2016 alone, the government
shut down or revoked
the licence of 1,475
websites and deleted
more than 12,000 internet
accounts in a crackdown
on “illegal online
information”, the Cyberspace
Administration said
in a statement on Friday.
TRUMP LEADS CLINTON IN
NEW NATIONAL POLL
Washington: Republican
presidential candidate
Donald Trump has taken
a lead albeit a small one
and within margin of error
over his Democratic
rival Hillary Clinton in a
new national poll, the first
after last week’s Republican
National Convention
in Cleveland.
Trump (48 per cent)
leads Clinton (45 per cent)
by three per cent in a twoway
match up, CNN/ORC
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preach hate.
The Parliamentary Joint
Committee on Intelligence
and Security (PJCIS) had
made 21 recommendations
on the original Bill.
“Following consultation
with the States and Territories,
the Government accepts
all of the PJCIS recommendations,
and they will be
reflected in the Bill,” the PM
said.
In a four-way contest
with two other presidential
candidates from minor
parties, Trump is leading
Clinton by five percentage
points. Post conventions,
presidential candidates do
get a major jump in their
popularity ratings.
Democratic National
Convention begins in
Philadelphia on Tuesday,
which would formally
said.
The Attorney-General
will also convene a meeting
of all the State and
Territory Attorneys-General
as soon as practicable
to ensure post-sentence
preventative detention
legislation can be introduced
quickly, he said.
This legislation will enable
additional periods of
imprisonment for terrorist
offenders who have served
nominate Clinton as party’s
presidential nominee.
In RealClearPolitics.Com,
which keeps track of all
major polls, in an average
of recent major national
polls, Clinton leads Trump
by 1.9 per cent.
Clinton’s lead over
Trump has been reducing
every passing week.
CNN/ORC said after
the Cleveland Convention,
Trump has received major
jump in support from independents.
Cleveland also helped
Trump make strides in his
personal image, the poll
said.
A majority (52 per cent)
now say Trump is running
for president for the good
of the country rather than
personal gain, just 44 per
cent say the same about
Clinton.
their sentences but are still
judged to present an unacceptable
risk to the community,”
he further added.