World News Briefs For Sunday, 28 July 2019
Hello Australia!! - Canada's military is in the search for the suspected killers of a NSW man - Cops clash with protesters in Moscow and Hong Kong - The twist in the murder of a police officers, the suspects weren't as advertised - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Canada's department of defense is lending a Royal Canadian Air Force search and rescue CC-130H Hercules aircraft from Winnipeg to aid in the ongoing search for the two teens suspect of Australian man Lucas Fowler, his American girlfriend Chynna Deece, and college professor Leonard Dyck who was found at a separate crime scene. It is believed that 19-year old Kam McLeod and 18-year old Bryer Schmegelsky are trying to disappear into the northern Canadian wilderness, and the air support will be available as long as the Mounties need it. Heavily armed police officers have been scouring the area around Gillam, Manitoba and the Fox Lake Cree Nation after a burned-out SUV used by the suspects was found nearby.
Russian police detained more than a thousand demonstrators angry about Moscow officials refusing to allow opposition candidates to run in an election, even though those candidates had gotten enough signatures on nominating petitions. The clashes got pretty messy and several people were injured. Last week, 35,000 protesters gathered in Moscow - but major opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested on Wednesday on detained for 30 days, and this week's numbers were way down. Some of the people detained say they weren't even in the protest and were swept up by overzealous cops.
Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters after they defied warnings not to go to the neighborhood where white-shirt organized crime thugs were recorded attacking and beating pro-democracy group a week ago. Critics accused the cops of turning a blind eye and even of collaborating with the thugs. These protests swelled weeks ago when the Hong Kong government proposed an extradition law that critics alleged would have allowed political dissidents to be sent to Beijing for trial. That bill has been withdrawn, but the protests have retained momentum and are calling for investigations into police violence, democratic reform, and the ouster of Hong Kong chief Carrie Lam.
Sudan is charging eight senior military officers with the massacre of 87 to 130 civilian protesters on 3 June, with many of the bodies being dumped into the Nile River. The protesters had successfully ousted long time strongman Omar al-Bashir in April, but grew increasingly impatient as the military refused to transition to democracy and delayed elections. The two sides eventually agreed to share power.
Two American teens were arrested for stabbing an Italian police officer to death. Christian Gabriel Natale Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder, aged 18 and 19 years and both from San Francisco, were set up by a drug dealer and stabbed Mario Cerciello Rega as he tried to arrest them. The case hit the third rail in the country as the suspects for some reason were at first described as "North African" - prompting far right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to say the killers should get "hard labor for life". When the suspects turned out to be white, he piped down. SMDH.
This year's monsoon rains have killed more than 600 people in south Asia, and temporarily left 1,050 people marooned on a train that was stranded near Mumbai - the tracks were too flooded to go ahead or back up. Eventually, authorities deployed boats and helecopters to rescue the passengers of the Mahalaxmi Express.