31 year-old Brian Anthony Browning has been identified as the man who opened fire outside a Michigan church filled with worshippers before he was struck by a vehicle and then fatally shot by security staff. According to police Browning had attended services there a couple of times in the last year and his mother is a member of the said church in Wayne. In a viral video clip that circulated on social media, Several people can be seen carrying or directing children to duck down and move away in a livestream video of the Sunday morning service at CrossPointe Community Church. “C’mon,...
France’s Court Of Auditors Estimates $6.8 Billion Public Spending For 2024 Paris Olympics
France’s court of auditors provided Monday the first official estimate of public spending tied to the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics, with the global public expenditure estimated at nearly six billion euros ($6.8 billion). The Cour des Comptes said in its preliminary report, which was published ahead of the 2030 Winter Olympics also awarded to France, that the spending includes €2.77 billion for the event organization and €3.19 billion for infrastructure investments. Paris 2024 organizers challenged the estimates in comments attached to the report. They notably said that some expenditures which predated the event and will continue afterward can’t be attributed to Games. They...
A Ukrainian Journalist Is Released From Russian Custody In Occupied Crimea
Ukrainian Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko was released Sunday after more than four years in Russian custody in Crimea, according to RFE/RL. Yesypenko was arrested and jailed on March 10, 2021, in Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, on suspicion of gathering intelligence for Ukraine, a charge he denied. In February 2022, a Russian-installed court in Crimea sentenced the dual Russian-Ukrainian citizen to six years on espionage charges that he, his employer and rights groups said were fabricated. Months later, he was also charged with possessing explosives — a claim he denies. Prosecutors later acknowledged the grenade found in his car...
President Lee Picks South Korea’s First Civilian Defense Chief In 64 Years
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung nominated a five-term liberal lawmaker as defense minister Monday, breaking with a tradition of appointing retired military generals. The announcement came as several prominent former defense officials, including ex-Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyun, face high-profile criminal trials over their roles in carrying out martial law last year under then-President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was indicted on rebellion charges and removed from office. Ahn Gyu-back, a lawmaker from Lee’s Democratic Party, has served on the National Assembly’s defense committee and chaired a legislative panel that investigated the circumstances surrounding Yoon’s martial law decree. Yoon’s authoritarian move involved deploying hundreds of...
Three Dead, 81 Injured After Stand Collapses At Algerian Soccer Match
Three people died and 81 were injured following the collapse of a stand after soccer club Mouloudia Club d’Alger won a ninth league title, Algerian authorities said Sunday. An earlier toll was one dead and 50 injured but two fans subsequently died from their injuries following Saturday’s incident at the Stade Olympique du 5 Juillet 1962, according to a statement issued by the country’s Ministry of Health. Algeria president Abdelmadjid Tebboune offered his condolences. According to the website La Gazette du Fennec, a security barrier broke just as fans were getting ready to celebrate the title following a goalless draw...
Belarusian Dissident Tsikhanouski Recounts Five Years Of Solitary Confinement Experience
Siarhei Tsikhanouski is almost unrecognizable. Belarus’ key opposition figure, imprisoned in 2020 and unexpectedly released on Saturday, once weighed 135 kilograms (298 pounds) at 1.92 meters (nearly 6’4”) tall, but now is at just 79 kilos (174 pounds). On Saturday, Tsikhanouski was freed alongside 13 other prisoners and brought to Vilnius, the capital of neighboring Lithuania, where he was reunited with his wife, exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, and their children. Speaking to The Associated Press the day after, Tsikhanouski tries to smile and joke, but struggles to hold back heavy sighs recalling what he endured behind bars. “This...
ICE Detains Marine Corps Veteran’s Wife Who Was Still Breastfeeding Their Baby
Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn’t know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month. When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact. His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for...
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu Hands Over ECOWAS Leadership To Sierra-Leone President Julius Maada Bio
“I handed over ECOWAS leadership to my brother, H.E. Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra-Leone. I do so with a deep sense of fulfilment and optimism for the future of West Africa. “We must remain resolute in our shared mission to deepen integration, protect our people, and build a united region.” Nigerian president revealed in a statement on Sunday. At 32, Julius Maada Bio ousted his colleague Valentine Strasser to become the military Head of State of Sierra Leone on January 16 1996, Strasser had become president at the age of 25 through a coup. Bio handed over power to...
Alao-Akala’s Alleged Daughter Seeks Dna Test, Requests Exhumation
Oluwatoyin Alao-Aderinto, first daughter of the late former Oyo State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, has filed a suit at the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, seeking an order for a Deoxyribonucleic Acid test on seven individuals claiming to be biological children of the deceased. Alao-Akala, who passed away in 2022, was a prominent figure in Nigerian politics and left behind a considerable portfolio of assets. The exhumation request has shocked family members, with some describing the move as “distasteful and unnecessary,” while others maintain that justice and truth must prevail. Alao-Aderinto, in a suit filed before Justice Taiwo of Court 12...