In a new
apostolic exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate,
Pope Francis mentions
Satan or the
Devil twelve times. Warning against
Catholic media transgressing the eighth commandment, he calls to "see how the unguarded tongue, set on fire by
hell, sets all things ablaze."
(Reuters)
A double decker tourist bus collides with low-lying tree branches in
Żurrieq,
Malta, killing two adults with six others being critically injured.
(The Times of Malta)
The
International Maritime Organisation commences meetings in
London aimed at reducing emissions in the shipping industry, which are presently unregulated. The 1997
Kyoto Protocol made the IMO responsible for controlling ship emissions.
(BBC)
U.S. entertainer
Bill Cosby's sexual assault
retrial begins. As he enters the court a topless woman with the words Women's Lives Matter written on her body charges him and is arrested.
(AP via Fredericksburg)
Abderrahman Bouanane goes on trial in a courtroom set up within a prison in
Turku,
Finland, accused of two murders and eight attempted murders in an alleged terror attack. The charges, the first terrorism crimes ever charged in Finland, relate to a stabbing in Turku's main market square. Bouanane is charged with two counts of terror-related murder and eight counts of attempted murder with a terror-related motive.
(ABC)
French police arrest three men and three women accused of involvement in the
2016 Magnanville stabbing by an
ISIL supporter. Local media reports the detainees include police major Maryline Bereaud and her daughter.
(The Guardian)
Extremist Muslim preacher Kiki Muhammad Iqbal is sentenced to nine years for inciting terrorism for a sermon he gave last year at a mosque in
Bandung. The sermon is alleged to have caused two suicide bombers to launch a May 2017 attack that killed three policemen in
East Jakarta.
(The Straits Times)
Around 2,500 police armed with
tear gas launch a raid in
Notre-Dame-des-Landes,
France, in a bid to force the removal of 250 activists who have occupied the site of the proposed
Aéroport du Grand Ouest for ten years to prevent its construction. The proposed airport is abandoned but the activists refuse to leave their community.
(The Guardian)
A day after a woman and her family tried to burn themselves in protest alleging she was raped by a local official and her husband murdered whilst in custody, six policemen are arrested in
Unnao,
India.
(The Quint)
Police in
Germany release six men suspected of plotting a terror attack at yesterday's
Berlin Half Marathon, one of whom was linked to
Anis Amri, after failing to find evidence to substantiate their suspicions.
(The Local)
The
British Transport Police reject claims by entertainer
Olly Murs of a cover-up of a possible terror incident in
London in November. Murs reported hearing gunfire but investigations found no evidence of weapons use.
(Sky)
In a new
apostolic exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate,
Pope Francis mentions
Satan or the
Devil twelve times. Warning against
Catholic media transgressing the eighth commandment, he calls to "see how the unguarded tongue, set on fire by
hell, sets all things ablaze."
(Reuters)
A double decker tourist bus collides with low-lying tree branches in
Żurrieq,
Malta, killing two adults with six others being critically injured.
(The Times of Malta)
The
International Maritime Organisation commences meetings in
London aimed at reducing emissions in the shipping industry, which are presently unregulated. The 1997
Kyoto Protocol made the IMO responsible for controlling ship emissions.
(BBC)
U.S. entertainer
Bill Cosby's sexual assault
retrial begins. As he enters the court a topless woman with the words Women's Lives Matter written on her body charges him and is arrested.
(AP via Fredericksburg)
Abderrahman Bouanane goes on trial in a courtroom set up within a prison in
Turku,
Finland, accused of two murders and eight attempted murders in an alleged terror attack. The charges, the first terrorism crimes ever charged in Finland, relate to a stabbing in Turku's main market square. Bouanane is charged with two counts of terror-related murder and eight counts of attempted murder with a terror-related motive.
(ABC)
French police arrest three men and three women accused of involvement in the
2016 Magnanville stabbing by an
ISIL supporter. Local media reports the detainees include police major Maryline Bereaud and her daughter.
(The Guardian)
Extremist Muslim preacher Kiki Muhammad Iqbal is sentenced to nine years for inciting terrorism for a sermon he gave last year at a mosque in
Bandung. The sermon is alleged to have caused two suicide bombers to launch a May 2017 attack that killed three policemen in
East Jakarta.
(The Straits Times)
Around 2,500 police armed with
tear gas launch a raid in
Notre-Dame-des-Landes,
France, in a bid to force the removal of 250 activists who have occupied the site of the proposed
Aéroport du Grand Ouest for ten years to prevent its construction. The proposed airport is abandoned but the activists refuse to leave their community.
(The Guardian)
A day after a woman and her family tried to burn themselves in protest alleging she was raped by a local official and her husband murdered whilst in custody, six policemen are arrested in
Unnao,
India.
(The Quint)
Police in
Germany release six men suspected of plotting a terror attack at yesterday's
Berlin Half Marathon, one of whom was linked to
Anis Amri, after failing to find evidence to substantiate their suspicions.
(The Local)
The
British Transport Police reject claims by entertainer
Olly Murs of a cover-up of a possible terror incident in
London in November. Murs reported hearing gunfire but investigations found no evidence of weapons use.
(Sky)