1 ARRESTED AFTER AUTO HITS PEDESTRIANS IN LONDON
A vehicle struck pedestrians on a road in north London, leaving several casualties and one person has been arrested.
Metropolitan Police officers were called to the scene on Seven Sisters Road at 12:20 a.m. Monday. The London Ambulance Service also responded to the incident.
This month, a van veered into pedestrians on London Bridge, setting off vehicle and knife attacks that killed eight people and wounded many others on the bridge and in the nearby Borough Market area.
Three Muslim extremists who carried out the attack were killed by police.
U.S. SHOOTS DOWN SYRIAN AIR FORCE FIGHTER
The U.S. military on Sunday shot down a Syrian air force fighter jet that bombed forces aligned with the Americans in the fight against Islamic State militants, an action that could mark an escalation of the conflict.
The U.S.-led coalition headquarters in Iraq said in a written statement that a U.S. F-18 Super Hornet shot down a Syrian government SU-22 after it dropped bombs near the U.S. partner forces, known as the Syrian Dem- ocratic Forces.
The shootdown was near the Syrian town of Tabqa.
The U.S. military statement said that the United States acted in “collective self-defense” of its partner forces and did not seek a fight with the Syrian government or its Russian supporters.
EU SAYS THERE’S STILL TIME FOR BRITAIN TO STAY PUT
European Union leaders said Britain still can reverse itself and remain in the EU when talks over its exit open Monday, less than two weeks after election losses by Prime Minister Theresa May’s government that could suggest more Brits have second thoughts about leaving the 28-nation alliance.
“Until negotiations come to an end, there is always a chance to reopen the door,” France’s newly elected pro-EU leader, Emmanuel Macron, said last week as May stood at his side in Paris.
Germany’s powerful finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, also signaled that Britain would be welcome back in the EU if it had a change of mind.
May, who lost a gamble by holding parliamentary elections June 8 to try to increase her mandate going into the Brexit negotiations, pledges to make a clean break under the best terms possible.