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Edmonton terror attack suspect was known to police, public safety minister says – Edmonton #CBC  

The man arrested in a suspected terrorist attack in Edmonton that saw a police officer stabbed and several pedestrians run down with a cube van on Saturday night was known to law enforcement, says Canada’s public safety minister. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said in a news conference on Sunday in Regina that the suspect, who is in police custody, was on a “police watch list.”  Goodale said the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team was working closely with Edmonton police on the investigation. “The individual had apparently some appearance on a police watch list, Read More  

               

Barca closed soccer stadium to show support for Catalan voters: Bartomeu  

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu said the club decided to play Sunday’s game against Las Palmas behind closed doors to show opposition to police violence against voters in Catalonia’s independence referendum and not over safety concerns. La Liga leaders Barca’s 3-0 win at an empty Nou Camp came on the day Catalan officials said that more than 760 people were injured in clashes between police and people trying to vote in the referendum, which the national government declared illegal. Barca tried to have the game postponed but Read More  

               

U.S. travel warning sends chill across Cuban tourism industry  

HAVANA (Reuters) – Businesses catering to U.S. tourists visiting Cuba have had a rude awakening in the last few months after enjoying a 2-1/2-year boom. First, U.S. President Donald Trump in June ordered tighter restrictions on travel to the Caribbean island. Then the U.S. State Department warned on Friday against going there after a spate of alleged attacks on its diplomats in Havana, stating until the cause was determined, it could not guarantee Americans’ safety. The new regulations have not yet been published, and the warning does not mean Americans Read More  

               

Prince Harry and girlfriend Meghan Markle joined by her mother at Invictus Games closing ceremony  

Prince Harry joined his girlfriend Meghan Markle and her mother in a private luxury box at the Invictus Games closing ceremony in Toronto on Saturday night. The prince, who was spotted elsewhere in the stadium and onstage during the event, joined Markle and her mother in the luxury box for a kiss before heading out to give his final speech. The British royal was seen embracing Markle in the box while watching Bruce Springsteen, Kelly Clarkson and others perform. Later, Markle and her mother applauded as Harry delivered his final Read More  

               

Security firm finds some Macs vulnerable to ‘firmware’ attacks  

(Reuters) – Since 2015, Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has tried to protect its Mac line of computers from a form of hacking that is extremely hard to detect, but it has not been entirely successful in getting the fixes to its customers, according to research released on Friday by Duo Security. Duo examined what is known as firmware in the Mac computers. Firmware is an in-built kind of software that is even more basic than an operating system like Microsoft Windows or macOS. When a computer is first powered on — Read More  

               

U.S. accuses Iran, Venezuela of human trafficking failings  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Saturday it had ordered that Iran, Venezuela and four African nations be added to a U.S. list of countries accused of failing to crack down on human trafficking, a step that further isolates them from the United States. The White House said it also was increasing restrictions on North Korea, Eritrea, Russia and Syria, which already were on the list, by constraining them from engaging in educational or cultural exchange programs with the United States. In addition, President Donald Trump’s administration instructed Read More  

               

Air France flight with engine damage makes emergency landing in Canada  

(Reuters) – An Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in eastern Canada on Saturday after one of its four engines sustained “serious damage” over the Atlantic, the airline said. Air France Flight 66, originating at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, landed at Goose Bay in Labrador at 1542 GMT, the airline said, and no one was hurt in the incident. “The regularly trained pilots and cabin crew handled this serious incident perfectly,” the airline said in a statement. The aircraft involved in the incident Read More  

               

Amid outcry over Confederate markers, new ones are going up  

While Confederate statues and monuments around the nation get removed, defaced, covered up or toppled, some new memorials are being erected, by people who insist their only purpose is to honor the soldiers who died for the South. Supporters of these new Civil War monuments describe a determination to hold onto their understanding of history. “What I want to get across is how much the South suffered, not only through the war but after the war, during the Reconstruction years,” said David Coggins. His Confederate Veterans Memorial Park in Brantley, Read More  

               

Brother recalls the last day he saw his sister Holly Bobo alive: Part 1 Video  

Transcript for Brother of murdered Tenn. student recalls the last day he saw his sister alive Reporter: A patchwork of dense woods and hardscrabble farms sewn to the west bank of the Tennessee river. This is Decatur county, Tennessee — atvs, horses and hunting. It’s where Karen and Dana Bobo live. In a home they built with own hands, with their 25-year-old son Clint, and his younger sister, 20-year-old holly. Holly was pretty much a mother’s girl. We shared a bond that she would sometimes look at me and say Read More  

               

O.J. Simpson set for imminent release from Nevada prison  

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Onetime “Trial of the Century” defendant O.J. Simpson could be freed as early as Sunday from prison in Nevada, where he has been held since 2008 for a botched robbery, but the time and place of his release remain secret, his plans largely unknown. Simpson, 70, won his freedom from a Nevada parole board in July after nine years behind bars, at a hearing that did not take into account his 1990s trial for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and a friend, Ron Read More