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Girl, 5, among Vancouver dead as suspect charged
A man has been charged with eight counts of second degree murder after a car drove into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada, killing at least 11 people – including a five-year-old girl.
Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, appeared in court late on Sunday and was returned to custody, Vancouver Police Department said, adding that further charges are expected.
Acting police chief Steve Rai described Saturday’s attack at the Lapu Lapu Day festival – which was attended by up to 100,000 people – as the “darkest day in the city’s history”.
The identities of those killed have not yet been released by officials, and police said dozens more were hurt in the attack which is not being treated as terrorism.
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Dozens of African migrants killed in US strike on Yemen, Houthis say
At least 68 African migrants have been killed in a US air strike on a detention centre in Houthi-controlled north-western Yemen, the armed group’s TV channel says.
Al Masirah reported that another 47 migrants were injured, most of them critically, when the centre in Saada province was bombed. It posted graphic footage showing multiple bodies covered in the rubble of a destroyed building.
There was no immediate comment from the US military.
But it came hours after US Central Command announced that its forces had hit more than 800 targets since President Donald Trump ordered an intensification of the air campaign against the Houthis on 15 March.
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The rapid remaking of a nation, in 100 days
During last year’s presidential campaign, Donald Trump constantly repeated his intention to bring about dramatic change as soon as he returned to the White House.
But few expected it to come at such breakneck speed.
In the three months since he took the oath of office, the 47th president has deployed his power in a way that compares to few predecessors.
In stacks of bound documents signed off with a presidential pen and policy announcements made in all caps on social media, his blizzard of executive actions has reached into every corner of American life.
To his supporters, the shock-and-awe approach has been a tangible demonstration of an all-action president, delivering on his promises and enacting long-awaited reforms.
But his critics fear he is doing irreparable harm to the country and overstepping his powers – crippling important government functions and perhaps permanently reshaping the presidency in the process.
Here are six turning points from the first 100 days.
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‘Grandpa robbers’ held Kim Kardashian at gunpoint – but didn’t know who she was
The morning after the heist, burglar Yunice Abbas went home to catch up on some sleep.
When he woke up, his wife was glued to the TV. The headline news of the day was that American reality TV star Kim Kardashian, then 35, had been tied up and robbed at gunpoint in a luxury Paris apartment.
All her jewellery – worth about $10m (£7.5m), and including the engagement ring her then-husband and rapper Kanye West gifted her, which alone was worth $4m (£3m) – had been taken.
Yunice Abbas’ wife glared at him. “This has you written all over it,” she grumbled.
She was right. The 62-year-old had dabbled in crime his whole life, from petty offences to bank heists.
The Kardashian robbery, he later wrote in a memoir, was going to be his last job before retirement.
But a series of blunders meant the heist was doomed from the start and in early 2017 – three months after the robbery – Abbas and several of his alleged accomplices were arrested.
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Conclave to elect new pope to begin on 7 May, Vatican says
Cardinals will meet next month in a secret conclave to elect the next pope, the Vatican has said.
The closed-door meeting will start inside the Sistine Chapel on 7 May and will involve some 135 cardinals from across the world.
It follows the death of Pope Francis who died on Easter Monday and whose funeral was held on Saturday.
There is no timescale as to how long it will take to elect the next pope, but the previous two Conclaves, held in 2005 and 2013, lasted just two days.
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Critical week for US’s future in Ukraine-Russia talks, Rubio says
This week will be “very critical” for Russia-Ukraine war talks as Washington decides if it is an “endeavour that we want to continue to be involved in”, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
Rubio told US media that Donald Trump hasn’t imposed new penalties on Russia because he still hopes diplomacy can end the war.
It comes after Trump held a brief meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the Vatican before Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday.
Updating reporters on Sunday, Trump said he believes Zelensky is willing to give up Crimea to Russia as part of a peace deal – despite Kyiv’s previous rejections of any such proposal.