Wildfires in Canada forced thousands of people to be evacuated. More than 180 of the fires were burning across British Columbia on July 8. They are extending hundreds of miles through the interior of the province. Some evacuees took shelter at emergency facilities. No deaths or injuries were reported but many buildings were destroyed.
Santiago served as the head of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) from 2006 to 2010.
Alvarez said that it is through Martial Law that rebellion crisis and other related problems in Mindanao could be addressed.
Xi stressed to Trump China's position that it adheres to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and maintaining peace and stability there.
The researchers reveal that traits of female fish were portrayed by the male river fish and they even produced eggs.
The Late Neolithic site dates back to times when the Yellow River Valley was inhabited by the Longshan Culture.
A coastguard crew has rescued a man from the Worcester Cathedral Bell Tower. The 53-year-old man fell ill during a practice of a historical re-enactment group. Local rescuers called the coastguard because of the height of the tower. The internal stair case would have also been too narrow to transport the man on a stretcher. The crew transported the man to a field where he was picked up by an ambulance.
Italian police arrested a Chechen man suspected of being an Isis militant. He is believed to have been involved in attacks in Grozny, Chechnya, in 2014. The attacks on media offices and a school left 19 dead. The 38-year-old man is accused of crimes of international terrorism. The arrest was part of a wider investigation into foreign Isis fighters from Chechnya.
At the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona thrill seekers get close and personal with bulls. Three men were injured on the first day of bull running at the week-long festival. One Instagram user had a lucky escape when a bull jumped over him in the last second. Another man showed off his acrobatic skills at the risk of being gored. There are eight runs in total during the festival often criticized by animal rights activists.
A man in Warwickshire was arrested after driving in the wrong direction on the motorway. Tony Chapman, 62, was driving 70 miles per hour down the wrong lane of the M40. When he did not respond to police asking him to stop officers were forced to make tactical contact with his car. Police reported Chapman had no recollection of driving the vehicle.
A 31-year-old man died after driving a car filled with propane into his ex-girlfriends home. A police bodycam video shows the car on fire as officers try to extinguish the flames. Floridas Fort Pierce Department said driver Carl Philbert was involved in a dispute at the address before returning with his car and crashing into the apartment building. The car was packed with four 20 lb propane gas containers. 13 adults and five children were displaced because of the incident but escaped unharmed.
A video shows a Canadian police officer yelling at a mother for leaving her two children in a hot car while she went grocery shopping. Police in Vancouver received multiple calls about the children who were said to be in distress. A full emergency response including police and fire services were dispatched.The children, aged 3 and 6, were reportedly in the car for 20 minutes. The Ministry of Children and Family Development was informed about the case.
Special forces were deployed in Hamburg to control protests against the G20 summit. For the second day in a row, anti-capitalist protesters caused chaos in the north German city torching vehicles, looting supermarkets, building barricades and attacking police. Special forces stormed the Schanzenviertel district around midnight and chased members of the radical Black Bloc trying to escape across scaffolding. Around 200 police officers were injured during the two-day clashes. The G20 summit concludes on Saturday, allowing Hamburg to clear up the chaos.
Special forces were deployed in Hamburg to control protests against the G20 summit. For the second day in a row, anti-capitalist protesters caused chaos in the north German city torching vehicles, looting supermarkets, building barricades and attacking police. Special forces stormed the Schanzenviertel district around midnight and chased members of the radical Black Bloc trying to escape across scaffolding. Around 200 police officers were injured during the two-day clashes. The G20 summit concludes on Saturday, allowing Hamburg to clear up the chaos.
A neighbouring resident alerted the police authorities that fishing dynamites were manufactured by the father-son duo.
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