GLOBAL SNAPSHOT
Peru toll rises
LIMA: The death toll in the worst flooding in Peru in decades has risen to at least 90. The National Emergency Operations Centre says 20 people are missing, while about 350 are injured. About 29,000 houses have been destroyed and 164,000 damaged.
Roof-hop death
NEW YORK: A 13-year-old boy has been killed and another teenager is injured after they tried to hop along rooftops in Brooklyn and plunged about four storeys to the ground. In January last year, a 15-year-old girl died after she tried to jump from one rooftop to another in Manhattan and fell five storeys.
Brexit protest
LONDON: Tens of thousands protested on Saturday under sunny skies in London against plans for Britain to withdraw from the European Union. The Unite for Europe march, which saw many people carrying bright blue EU flags, came just days before Britain is expected to begin its formal EU separation.
Police decapitated
BENI: A Congolese militia group has decapitated 42 policemen after ambushing them in an increasingly violent region where the UN is searching for missing American and Swedish investigators, a local official said yesterday. The attack took place between the cities of Tshikapa and Kananga in Central Kasai province on Friday, according to the Kasai Assembly.
Terrorist killed
KABUL: A US counterterrorism air strike earlier this month in Afghanistan killed al-Qa’ida leader Qari Yasin who was responsible for a deadly hotel attack in Islamabad in 2008 and the 2009 attack on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team, the Pentagon said.
Deadlock broken
RABAT: Morocco’s new Prime Minister Saadeddine El Othmani has succeeded in building a governing coalition, ending a five-month political deadlock after just eight days in office. El Othmani, 61, of the Islamist Party for Justice and Development, or PJD, announced that an “agreement has been reached” with six political parties.
Lift for Macron
PARIS: The frontrunner in France’s presidential election, Emmanuel Macron, received yet another boost to his candidacy when nine lawmakers from a centre-right party allied with conservative rival Francois Fillon decided to rally behind him. The senators from the UDI-UC party wrote a joint op-ed in the
Journal du Dimanche to say they would support Mr Macron for of his pro-European stance.