Pakistan detains hundreds of politicians from Imran Khan’s PTI party – The Guardian

  1. Pakistan detains hundreds of politicians from Imran Khan’s PTI party  The Guardian
  2. Pakistan detains provincial leaders after imposing emergency rule in Imran Khan stronghold  Reuters
  3. Pakistan imposes emergency rule in former prime minister's stronghold  NPR
  4. Imran Khan’s PTI braces to fight federal takeover of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Al Jazeera
  5. Pakistan Seizes Control of an Opposition-Led Province  The New York Times
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Pennsylvania shooter who killed eight was a grandfather, says slain child’s dad

Father of toddler killed in Erie mass shooting says reported gunman never seemed distressed or out of the ordinary

The man who killed eight people, before turning the gun on himself, in a mass shooting in a home in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday was a grandfather who had not shown signs that he was capable of such violence, according to people who knew the shooter.

A man whose toddler was among those killed said on Sunday that the man never seemed distressed or out of the ordinary, the Associated Press reports.

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Healey faces £35bn Budget challenge to meet spending pledges, says think tank – BBC

  1. Healey faces £35bn Budget challenge to meet spending pledges, says think tank  BBC
  2. UK's Healey can't risk a 'steady as you go' budget, think tank warns  Reuters
  3. U.K. Government Faces Test of Budget Credibility  WSJ
  4. IFS: budget will be ‘work of fiction’ without clear plan to cover UK’s £35bn spending pressures  The Guardian
  5. Why the numbers behind John Healey’s £35bn Budget ‘black hole’ don’t add up  The Independent
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Some Israeli settlers use sheep as tool to push Palestinians from their West Bank homes – CBS News

  1. Some Israeli settlers use sheep as tool to push Palestinians from their West Bank homes  CBS News
  2. Three years of Israel’s mass dispossession of West Bank Palestinians  Al Jazeera
  3. Opinion | Otherwise Occupied • Settlers commit the pogroms. Israel's public enables them  Haaretz
  4. Palestinian Anti-Wall Commission: Settlement Construction Precedes Planning Completion to Establish Facts on Ground  www.saba.ye
  5. The Slow-Motion Erasure Of The West Bank  IDN-InDepthNews
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