News in Brief
Shootings, violence leave dead and injured across US
AP – Mass shootings and violence killed and wounded people across the US this weekend, including at least 60 shot in the Chicago area alone. Four people were found shot to death in a small Idaho town, a Pennsylvania state trooper was killed in an ambush, and bullets struck 11 teenagers, killing one, at a party in Missouri. “There’s no question there’s been a spike in violence,” said Daniel Nagin, a professor of public policy and statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. “Some of these cases seem to be just disputes, often among adolescents, and those disputes are played out with firearms, not with fists.”
Turkish drone strike kills three in Syria
AFP – A Turkish drone strike killed three employees of Syria’s Kurdish-run northeast village of Tal Shaeer on Tuesday, a spokesman said.
The strike targeted “a vehicle transporting civilian employees, killing two Kurdish women and a Christian” man, said Farhad Shami, spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). A fourth employee was wounded, he added. Turkish state media on Tuesday cited security sources saying Turkey’s MIT intelligence agency had “neutralised” a senior figure in the Kurdish YPG in the area of Tal Rifaat some 27 km northwest of Tal Shaeer. It said he had been active in operations targeting the Turkish military. It did not say that any civilians were killed, or mention Tal Shaeer.
UN: Over 500k have fled Sudan
AFP – The head of the UN’s refugee agency Filippo Grandi said on Tuesday that the number of people who have fled the fighting in Sudan was now more than 500,000 while two million are internally displaced.
“Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan following the beginning of the conflict,” he said at a press conference in Nairobi. Sudan has been riven by conflict since April 15, with the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan battling the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commanded by his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.