Tunisia attack: British survivor hit by bullet
Friday 26 June 2015
Five Britons Among Dead:Tunisia
Tunisia attack: Five Britons among dead.
At least five Britons are among the dead after an attack on a beach near the popular Tunisian resort town of Sousse, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said.
Tunisia's health ministry has said at least 37 people are dead, mostly foreigners.
The UK death toll could rise, Mr Hammond said, with a "high proportion" of casualties expected to be British.
Tunisian officials say one gunman was shot dead and another is being pursued.
They said one attacker, who had posed as a swimmer but was carrying a rifle under a parasol, was shot dead in an exchange of fire with police.
Local media reported that a second attacker had been arrested, but this has not been confirmed.
Tunisians, Germans, Belgians and at least one Irish citizen are among the dead. A further 36 people are injured , the health ministry said.
Tourists described "bullets whizzing around us" and scenes of "panic" at the Port El Kantaoui district.
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Human Rights,Thailand BLOCKS
Thailand halts Human Rights Watch event on Vietnam,
Thailand's military-run government has forced Human Rights Watch (HRW) to cancel an event in Bangkok to launch a report into alleged abuses in Vietnam.
Thai officials said the event, which was halted minutes before it was due to start , could have affected relations between the two countries.
The HRW report focuses on the treatment of a Christian group in Vietnam.
The group said the Thai response showed how freedom of speech had beeneroded since the army seized power last year.
Thai police said the event at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand could "have an impact on the country's security or could affect the friendship and cooperation between Thailand and Vietnam".
It is the third human rights event at the venue that has been halted by authorities in the past month.
The HRW report describes what it says is the persecution of Montagnard Christians in Vietnam's central highlands. Their religious practices have been described by the Vietnamese government as "evil".
Sunai Phasuk, Human Rights Watch's senior researcher in Asia, said the decision to cancel the report's launch was "very disappointing".
"Thailand is now going to be known as the defender of human rights violators in [Southeast Asia], which adds more damage to Thailand's already tarnished international reputation under the military rule," he added.
Thai authorities have launched a crackdown on critics since the military seized power from a civilian government in May 2014.
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Alaska.Plane Crash 9 Killed
Alaska sightseeing plane crash kills all nine occupants, police say,
A sightseeing plane has crashed in southeast Alaska killing all nine people onboard, US police said.
Emergency crews were able to reach the aircraft that crashed against a granite rock face and confirm the deceased, according to Megan Peters from Alaska's Department of Public Safety.
The victims included eight passengers and the pilot.
"Due to inclement weather, the body recovery effort will not be attempted until tomorrow," she said in a statement.
The National Transportation Safety Board said on Twitter it was sending a "go-team" to the crash site to investigate.
The plane, a single-engine DHC-3 Otter, went down near a town called Ketchikan.
The aircraft is reported to have been part of an excursion launched from Holland America Line, acruise line operating in the area.
"We are incredibly distressed by this situation, and our thoughts and prayers are with those onboard the plane and their families," the cruise line said in a statement.
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Europes Ongoing Crisis;Escalate
Migrant talks escalate as European leaders struggle to agree on plan to confront ongoing crisis.
Fractious European leaders argued into the early morning on Friday over how to handle the EU's current migration crisis.
In the build up to the summit held in Brussels,reports emerged showing crowds of migrants attempting to board and hide in lorries around the French port of Calais, where the entrance to theChannel Tunnel is located which connects France to Britain.
Leaders eventually reached an agreement to share the responsibility of desperate people fleeing war and poverty in North Africa and the Middle East.
The criteria system replaces unpopular proposals for mandatory quotas on each country, which Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and others fought against, arguing their ex-Communist economies still lacked the capacity to cope.
Determined not to be dragged into negotiations over Greece's debt debacle , leaders instead found themselves sparring for seven hours about whether to take in 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean asylum seekers now in Italy and Greece, and another 20,000 people currently outside the EU.
Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker described the plan as one of "modest ambition" adding that he did not give a damn about objections to the plans methodology, "it is whether it can help 60,000 refugees".
Mr Juncker said he hoped to set a precedent for Europe-wide action that limited national opt-outs.
During the summit, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi rebuked his fellow leaders for their reluctance to support an emergency plan that was meant to respond to the tragedy of 2,000 migrant deaths in the Mediterranean this year, which he alleges is overshadowed by less important European differences.
"If we think Europe is only about budgets, it is not the Europe we thought of in 1957 in Rome," Mr Renzi said, referring to the EU's founding treaty.
While the political deal was a breakthrough, implementing the plan still faces hurdles, and the mood was a long way from the unity showed by EU ministers in April following the deaths of 900 migrants off the Libyan coast in a single weekend.
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