Here is a round-up of the highest developments world wide at the moment.
UK counter-terrorism police arrest three after Liverpool automotive blast
Counter-terrorism officers arrested three males after a automobile exploded outdoors a hospital within the northern English metropolis of Liverpool on Sunday, killing one particular person and wounding one other, police mentioned.A male passenger within the automotive was declared useless on the scene, whereas the male driver was injured and was in hospital in astable situation, police mentioned.
My ideas are with all these affected by the terrible incident in Liverpool at the moment.
I wish to thank the emergency providers for his or her fast response and professionalism, and the police for his or her ongoing work on the investigation.
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) November 14, 2021
Counter-terrorism officers mentioned they had been investigating the case with native police and that they had been protecting an open thoughts as to what had occurred. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned his ideas had been with these folks affected.
Gadhafi’s son broadcasts candidacy for president of Libya
Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of Libyan chief Moammar Gadhafi, speaks to the media at a press convention in a lodge in Tripoli, Libya.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Seif al-Islam, the son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi introduced Sunday his candidacy for the nation’s presidential election subsequent month, Libya’s election company mentioned. Seif is needed by the International Criminal Court on fees of crimes towards humanity associated to the 2011 rebellion.
He was captured by fighters within the city of Zintan late in 2011, the yr when a well-liked rebellion, backed by the NATO, toppled his father after greater than 40 years in energy.
Seif introduced his candidacy via a video, saying that God will resolve the correct path for the nation’s future. The 49-year outdated, who earned a PhD on the London School of Economics appeared in public for the primary time in years.
Elon Musk spars with Bernie Sanders, presents to promote extra Tesla inventory
Elon Musk.(AP)
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk obtained right into a spat with Bernie Sanders on Sunday after the US senator demanded the rich pay their “fair share” of taxes. “We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period,” Sanders wrote on Twitter. Taking a jibe on the 80-year-old senator, Musk responded by saying “I keep forgettingthat you’re still alive.”
I maintain forgetting that you just’re nonetheless alive
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2021
Musk who had already offloaded a mixed $6.9 billion value of shares within the electrical automotive firm as of Nov. 12, additional wrote, “Want me to promote extra inventory, Bernie? Just say the phrase.
Sanders’ tweet comes amid the backdrop of Washington’s efforts to hike taxes for the super-wealthy. US Senate Democrats have unveiled a proposal to tax billionaires’ shares and different tradable property to assist finance President Joe Biden’s social spending agenda and shut a loophole that has allowed them to defer capital good points taxes indefinitely.
China and India might want to clarify coal transfer: COP26 President
Alok Sharma, the President of the COP26 summit, at first of a stocktaking plenary session in Glasgow on Saturday. (Photo: AP)
China and India might want to clarify to growing nations why they pushed to water down language on efforts to part out coal on the COP26 convention, the occasion’s president Alok Sharma mentioned on Sunday.
U.N. local weather talks in Glasgow, Scotland, ended on Saturday with a deal that focused fossil fuels for the primary time. But India, backed by China and different coal-dependent growing nations, rejected a clause calling for a “phase out”of coal-fired energy, and the textual content was modified to “phase down”.
“In terms of China and India, they will on this particular issue have to explain themselves,” Sharma instructed a information convention at Downing Street in London.
Militant assault kills 20 in Burkina Faso
An assault by militants killed 19 Burkina Faso army police and one civilian on Sunday. The assaults comes within the tri-border northern area the place the West African nation is battling Islamist militants, Security Minister Maxime Kone mentioned.
“This morning a detachment of the gendarmerie suffered a cowardly and barbaric attack. They held their position,” Kone mentioned on nationwide tv, including that 22 survivors had been discovered. This assaults comes 2 days after one other assault by which seven police had been killed in an space close to Niger and Mali.