Threat to topple May

Far-Right march in Warsaw

Tens of thousands of nationalists marched in a demonstration organised by far-Right groups in Warsaw yesterday, as Poles celebrated their country’s Independence Day. The far-Right march was one of many events marking Poland’s rebirth as a nation in 1918 after being wiped off the map for 123 years. Earlier in the day, President Andrzej Duda presided over state ceremonies also attended by European Union president Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister. But the march has become the largest Independence Day event in recent years. Police estimated that 60,000 people took part.

Park shuts cooling towers

Disneyland has shut down and decontaminated two cooling towers following an outbreak of Legionnaires disease that sickened 12 people, nine of them guests or employees at the theme park in Southern California. The chief medical officer for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Pamela Hymel, said that after learning of the Legionnaires cases, park officials ordered the cooling towers treated with chemicals to destroy the bacteria and shut them down. Cooling towers provide cold water for various uses at Disneyland and give off a vapour or mist that could have carried the Legionnella bacteria.

Forty British members of parliament from Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party have agreed to sign a letter of no-confidence in her, the newspaper reported. That is eight short of the number needed to trigger a party leadership contest, the mechanism through which May could be forced from office and replaced by another Conservative. May has been struggling to maintain her authority over her party since a snap election on June 8 which resulted in her losing her parliamentary majority.

Shooting victims buried

The Texas town reeling from a massacre in which 26 churchgoers died buried the first of the victims yesterday, in a remote cemetery where a series of funerals is being held this week. Richard Rodriguez, 64, and his wife, Therese, 66, both cancer survivors, were buried in a corner of Sutherland Springs Cemetery with 250 family members and friends looking on. The cemetery is a mile from Sutherland Spring’s First Baptist Church where gunman Devin Kelley killed 26 people and wounded 20 last Sunday, before taking his own life.