🚨A shooting attack early Saturday in the center of Norway's capital city Oslo has left at least two dead and 14 injured. The Norwegian police indicated that the incident was recorded at 01:00 local time (23:00 GMT) in a nightclub and other nearby places, including a gay bar.
A spokesman for the police force said that the first investigations revealed a single person likely committed the criminal act and added that two weapons were seized at the scene of the incident.
Among the 14 injured, eight were taken to the hospital, while the others were treated on the spot by medical services. "Some were described as seriously wounded, others as lightly wounded," the police source said.
Police described the situation as "confused" and called the shooting "continuous life-threatening violence." The alleged perpetrator of the shooting was arrested near the scene shortly after.
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A spokesman for the police force said that the first investigations revealed a single person likely committed the criminal act and added that two weapons were seized at the scene of the incident.
Among the 14 injured, eight were taken to the hospital, while the others were treated on the spot by medical services. "Some were described as seriously wounded, others as lightly wounded," the police source said.
Police described the situation as "confused" and called the shooting "continuous life-threatening violence." The alleged perpetrator of the shooting was arrested near the scene shortly after.
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The Pentagon has awarded an 18-year-long contract worth $12 billion to the UK-based defense company BAE Systems. The agreement sees BAE "supporting and augmenting" Washington's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) weapon systems, as well as providing "professional services" related to their operations. It expires in December 2040.
The US Department of Defense did not elaborate further on the nature of the BAE Systems' work on the ICBMs, which can deliver nuclear warheads. However, the Pentagon noted that most of the results would be carried out at the US Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center in Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
This is one of the biggest contracts allocated by the Pentagon this year amid a slashed defense budget. At the same time, the Biden administration called for increasing investments in the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent, namely ICBMs, and the overall nuclear weapons budget contracted by $813 billion for 2023.
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The US Department of Defense did not elaborate further on the nature of the BAE Systems' work on the ICBMs, which can deliver nuclear warheads. However, the Pentagon noted that most of the results would be carried out at the US Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center in Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
This is one of the biggest contracts allocated by the Pentagon this year amid a slashed defense budget. At the same time, the Biden administration called for increasing investments in the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent, namely ICBMs, and the overall nuclear weapons budget contracted by $813 billion for 2023.
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🏛President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
“Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved,” he said in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Citing the families of shooting victims, he has met, the president said, “Their message to us was, ‘Do something.’ How many times did we hear that? ‘Just do something. For God’s sake, just do something.’ Today we did.”
Most of its $13 billion costs will help bolster mental health programs and aid schools, which have been targeted in Newtown, Connecticut, Parkland, Florida, and elsewhere in mass shootings.
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“Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved,” he said in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Citing the families of shooting victims, he has met, the president said, “Their message to us was, ‘Do something.’ How many times did we hear that? ‘Just do something. For God’s sake, just do something.’ Today we did.”
Most of its $13 billion costs will help bolster mental health programs and aid schools, which have been targeted in Newtown, Connecticut, Parkland, Florida, and elsewhere in mass shootings.
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🦠💉Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall.
The vaccines currently used in the U.S. still offer strong protection against severe COVID-19 disease and death -- especially if people have gotten a booster dose. But those vaccines target the original coronavirus strain and their effectiveness against any infection dropped markedly when the super-contagious omicron mutant emerged.
Now with omicron’s even more transmissible relatives spreading widely, the Food and Drug Administration is considering ordering a recipe change for the vaccines made by both Pfizer and rival Moderna in hopes that modified boosters could better protect against another COVID-19 surge expected this fall and winter.
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The vaccines currently used in the U.S. still offer strong protection against severe COVID-19 disease and death -- especially if people have gotten a booster dose. But those vaccines target the original coronavirus strain and their effectiveness against any infection dropped markedly when the super-contagious omicron mutant emerged.
Now with omicron’s even more transmissible relatives spreading widely, the Food and Drug Administration is considering ordering a recipe change for the vaccines made by both Pfizer and rival Moderna in hopes that modified boosters could better protect against another COVID-19 surge expected this fall and winter.
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✝️Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion.
Francis didn’t refer to the ruling or explicitly mention abortion in his homily. But he used the buzzwords he has throughout his papacy about the need to defend families and to condemn a “culture of waste” that he believes is behind the societal acceptance of abortion.
“Let us not allow the family to be poisoned by the toxins of selfishness, individualism, today's culture of indifference and waste, and as a result lose its very DNA, which is the spirit of welcoming and service,” he said.
“The pope, noting that some couples allow their fears and anxieties to “thwart the desire to bring new lives in the world,” called for them not to cling to selfish desires”.
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Francis didn’t refer to the ruling or explicitly mention abortion in his homily. But he used the buzzwords he has throughout his papacy about the need to defend families and to condemn a “culture of waste” that he believes is behind the societal acceptance of abortion.
“Let us not allow the family to be poisoned by the toxins of selfishness, individualism, today's culture of indifference and waste, and as a result lose its very DNA, which is the spirit of welcoming and service,” he said.
“The pope, noting that some couples allow their fears and anxieties to “thwart the desire to bring new lives in the world,” called for them not to cling to selfish desires”.
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😥A 5-month-old girl was shot to death while in the rear of a car in a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, authorities said.
The infant, who was identified as Cecilia Thomas, was struck in the head Friday evening when shots were fired from another car in the South Shore neighborhood, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. Cecilia was taken to a hospital, where she later died.
A 41-year-old man in another car was in good condition at a hospital after suffering a gunshot wound near his eye, Chicago police said. The baby is among the youngest victims of gun violence in Chicago. She would have turned 6-months-old in four days, according to Natalia Derevyanny, a spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. No arrests have been made.
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The infant, who was identified as Cecilia Thomas, was struck in the head Friday evening when shots were fired from another car in the South Shore neighborhood, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. Cecilia was taken to a hospital, where she later died.
A 41-year-old man in another car was in good condition at a hospital after suffering a gunshot wound near his eye, Chicago police said. The baby is among the youngest victims of gun violence in Chicago. She would have turned 6-months-old in four days, according to Natalia Derevyanny, a spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. No arrests have been made.
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🌉 An abortion rights activist who climbed to the top of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C., came down Saturday after spending more than a day on the structure. The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed with WJLA that Guido Reichstadter is in custody and facing charges.
The bridge reopened shortly before 2 p.m. EDT after being closed for nearly 28 hours. An Instagram post Reichstadter shared around 1 p.m. EDT said it was his "last transmission" from the top of the bridge.
Police said they previously contacted Reichstadter and said the priority was "to get him down safely." During an Instagram Live, he stated he's 42 years old, from Jacksonville, Florida, and was or is in the Marine Reserves. He also said that he brought water up with him, but it rolled down the bridge.
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The bridge reopened shortly before 2 p.m. EDT after being closed for nearly 28 hours. An Instagram post Reichstadter shared around 1 p.m. EDT said it was his "last transmission" from the top of the bridge.
Police said they previously contacted Reichstadter and said the priority was "to get him down safely." During an Instagram Live, he stated he's 42 years old, from Jacksonville, Florida, and was or is in the Marine Reserves. He also said that he brought water up with him, but it rolled down the bridge.
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🚨 9 people were arrested during the Saturday demonstration in Munich, the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reports citing police.
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⚡️The United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Japan to ban gold imports from Russia.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed the forthcoming ban after arriving at the G7 summit in Bavaria. The ban will apply to newly mined or refined gold, said a report on Sunday, citing Downing Street, from online UK newspaper, the Independent.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed the forthcoming ban after arriving at the G7 summit in Bavaria. The ban will apply to newly mined or refined gold, said a report on Sunday, citing Downing Street, from online UK newspaper, the Independent.
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Biden says G7 will ban Russian gold in response to special operation in Ukraine
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⚡️ Ukrainian forces strike Donetsk with 20 Grad rockets, DPR says
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📹Footage of the combat work done by the Uragan MLRS during the special operation in Ukraine (Russian MoD video)
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The latest update from Russia's Ministry of Defense:
▪Kalibr missiles have hit the territory of the Ukrainian troops' training centers in the Chernigov, Zhytomyr, and Lvov regions;
▪10 Ukrainian MLRS platoons have been hit by high-precision weapons of Russia's Aerospace Forces;
▪Ukraine once again failed to seize Snake Island with aircraft and MLRS. While repelling the attack, Pantsir-S shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 and 12 rockets;
▪As a result of air strikes, missile forces and artillery, more than 720 Ukrainian neo-Nazis and 12 tanks have been destroyed;
▪A MiG-29 aircraft of Ukraine's Air Force has been shot down in an air battle near the village of Zelenodolsk, in the Dnepropetrovsk region;
▪Air defense systems have destroyed eight Ukrainian drones in the LPR, Kherson and Kharkov regions
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▪Kalibr missiles have hit the territory of the Ukrainian troops' training centers in the Chernigov, Zhytomyr, and Lvov regions;
▪10 Ukrainian MLRS platoons have been hit by high-precision weapons of Russia's Aerospace Forces;
▪Ukraine once again failed to seize Snake Island with aircraft and MLRS. While repelling the attack, Pantsir-S shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 and 12 rockets;
▪As a result of air strikes, missile forces and artillery, more than 720 Ukrainian neo-Nazis and 12 tanks have been destroyed;
▪A MiG-29 aircraft of Ukraine's Air Force has been shot down in an air battle near the village of Zelenodolsk, in the Dnepropetrovsk region;
▪Air defense systems have destroyed eight Ukrainian drones in the LPR, Kherson and Kharkov regions
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👽The International UFO Lab based in Japan's Fukushima has published the results of a study based on analysis of 452 "records". According to them, four of these records may serve as highly probable evidence of the existence of UFOs
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❗The number of confirmed monkeypox cases in Los Angeles County has jumped to 22. Health officials say that the virus has largely been spread among men who have sex with other men and who have recently attended crowded events
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📹Combat work by the TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system during the special military operation in Ukraine (footage from Russia's Ministry of Defense)
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❗The New York Times: US spies coordinate arms supplies to Ukraine
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🇺🇸US Army drops high school diploma requirement amid severe problems with recruitment
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⚡US 'continues to do its best' to ease Turkey's concerns over Finland and Sweden's NATO membership - Reuters cites White House as saying
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❗The US is confident that NATO's new strategy document will include "strong" language on China - White House
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