| Police search for motive after 49 hurt in Zimbabwe election blast Posted: 24 Jun 2018 01:04 PM PDT  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Police said on Sunday they were searching for a motive for an explosion at Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's election rally that injured 49 people. Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, the general who led a de facto coup that forced long-time leader Robert Mugabe to resign in November, described Saturday's blast as a "terrorist act" that would not stop the July 30 presidential, parliamentary and local elections, Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe vote. Mugabe has said he felt betrayed by Mnangagwa, his former protege, and has called his presidency illegal.
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| Fighting moves closer to center of Yemen's main port city Posted: 24 Jun 2018 12:10 PM PDT  By Mohammed Ghobari ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthis deployed additional forces in the main port city of Hodeidah on Sunday as a Saudi-led military coalition moved closer to the city center in the largest offensive of the war, raising U.N. fears of a humanitarian catastrophe. The alliance led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates launched its assault on the heavily defended Red Sea city on June 12 to try to weaken the Iran-aligned Houthi movement by cutting off a key supply line for the group which controls the capital Sanaa and most populated areas. "There is a heavy deployment of armed Houthis in the city and new check points have been set up in neighborhoods where there are supporters of the Tehama brigades," said one resident, referring to a Yemeni faction from the Red Sea coastal plain that is fighting with coalition forces.
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| Protesters, Democrats want immigrant families reunited Posted: 24 Jun 2018 08:23 AM PDT  MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — Demonstrators led rallies and protests Saturday to decry the separation of immigrant parents from their children by U.S. border authorities, while Democratic lawmakers said they aren't convinced the Trump administration has any real plan to reunite them.
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| Syria forces impose 'curfew' in Raqa fearing instability, IS Posted: 24 Jun 2018 05:15 AM PDT  Security forces in Syria's Raqa announced a two-day curfew starting Sunday, citing instability in the northern city and fears of possible Islamic State group attacks. IS was kicked out of its de facto Syrian capital of Raqa in October by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which then stood up police units to hold the city. On Sunday, the Raqa Internal Security Forces said it had received "information that terrorist groups working on behalf of Daesh (IS)... have entered Raqa city to carry out attacks against stability and security".
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| White House accuses Democrats of exploiting toddler photo as Time magazine corrects story Posted: 24 Jun 2018 04:10 AM PDT  The White House seized on a photo of a Honduran toddler seen sobbing at the US-Mexico border, accusing Democrats of exploiting the picture. The photograph, taken by Getty Images photographer John Moore at the scene of a border detention on June 12, became a powerful image in the media coverage of the separation of families. Dozens of newspapers and magazines published the image and it helped raise $17 million in Facebook's biggest ever fundraiser. The image was widely interpreted as showing the girl crying over being parted from her mother. However, it later emerged that the girl had not been separated from her mother. For its cover this week, titled 'Welcome to America,' Time magazine had cropped the picture to show just the girl, juxtaposing it with a picture of Mr Trump, as though he were looking down at her. In a correction Time magazine later said: "The original version of this story misstated what happened to the girl in the photo after she was taken from the scene. "The girl was not carried away screaming by US Border Patrol agents. Her mother picked her up and the two were taken away together." White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Friday: "It's shameful that Democrats and the media exploited this photo of a little girl to push their agenda. "She was not separated from her mom. The separation here is from the facts." Denis Valera, her father in Honduras, said his one-year-old daughter Yelena was with her mother Sandra Sanchez in a detention centre in Texas. He said his wife and daughter had left Honduras without his knowledge and made the trek to the US to seek asylum.. Honduras' deputy foreign minister, Nelly Jerez, confirmed Mr Valera's version of events. The photograph showed Ms Sanchez being patted down by a border guard at the side of a road near the Rio Grande as Yelena screamed. The caption on the photograph said the detention could lead to possible separation, not that this had occurred. Mr Moore had made clear in numerous media interviews that he did not know what had happened to the mother and daughter or whether they had been separated.
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| Ten days after Trump-Kim summit, hard work is yet to begin Posted: 23 Jun 2018 11:09 PM PDT  The landmark summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un ended with a North Korean pledge of "complete denuclearization," but 10 days on no timetable for action has emerged. After flying back to Washington last week, seemingly giddy with success, the US leader tweeted, "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea" -- a bold claim with Kim's arsenal still in place. Many observers were disappointed that the short statement of intent signed by the two leaders did not more clearly define denuclearization, fearing Kim plans to keep his hard-won deterrent.
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| How Russia grapples with monuments from Soviet past Posted: 23 Jun 2018 10:09 PM PDT  As Americans debate the proper placement of Confederate statues, Russians have found a unique solution to a similar issue.
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| Delta Air Lines Bans Pit Bulls as Service and Support Animals Posted: 23 Jun 2018 05:51 PM PDT  The decision is being criticized.
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| Discarded napkin helps US police crack 32-year-old murder mystery Posted: 23 Jun 2018 04:55 PM PDT  The mystery of the sexual assault and murder of a US teenager in Washington state has been resolved 32 years after the crime thanks to a discarded napkin, DNA tests and genetic genealogy. Gary Hartman, 66, has been arrested and is scheduled to appear in court Monday on rape and murder charges in the case, which has long shocked the city of Tacoma, in the northwestern US state. It began on March 26, 1986, when 12-year-old Michella Welch disappeared while playing with her two young sisters at a park.
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| Jogger crosses US-Canada border by mistake, is held for two weeks in detention centre Posted: 23 Jun 2018 02:43 PM PDT  A French tourist who accidentally crossed the border into the US from Canada during an evening jog was sent to a detention centre 125 miles away and held for two weeks before being released. Cedella Roman, 19, who is mixed race, was apprehended by US border patrol guards in White Rock, near Vancouver, after illegally entering the country. "[The border guard] started telling me that I had crossed the border illegally and I told him that I really did not do it on purpose," she told Radio Canada.
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