Texas officers rescue infant from car trapped in floodwaters

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Video shows officers and firefighters surrounding a white car partially submerged in fast-moving water

Authorities in Texas rescued an infant on Saturday after a vehicle became trapped in flood waters in Beeville, south of San Antonio.

Video released on Sunday by the Beeville police department showed officers and firefighters surrounding a white car that was partially submerged in fast-moving water. As one first responder approached the car, a distressed man in the vehicle asked: “Can you get my kid?”

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Spread of Ebola in DRC ‘outpacing’ response efforts, warns WHO

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Director general of World Health Organization urges neighbouring countries to take immediate action

The World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease.

“We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” said the WHO’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as he urged neighbouring countries to take immediate action.

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Estranged husband of former Scottish leader admits $540K embezzlement of party funds – AP News

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  1. Estranged husband of former Scottish leader admits $540K embezzlement of party funds  AP News
  2. Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell admits embezzling party funds  BBC
  3. Peter Murrell pleads guilty to embezzling £400,000 from SNP  The Guardian
  4. Sturgeon ‘must come clean’ on what she knew about husband’s £400k theft  The Telegraph
  5. Scotland: Former SNP executive admits embezzling party funds  dw.com
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Far-right Elam party inspired by Golden Dawn makes gains in Cyprus election

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Strongly anti-Turkish party doubles its seats although mainstream parties did not see vote crumble as predicted

An anti-immigrant far-right party, inspired by Greece’s defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, made the biggest gains in Sunday’s parliamentary election in Cyprus.

Elam, the Greek National People’s Front, which has pushed for the closure of checkpoints on the ethnically split island and is vociferously anti-Turkish, doubled its seats in the 56-member legislature after securing 10.9 % of the vote.

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Train bomb in Pakistan’s Baloch region: Why violence is on the rise – Al Jazeera

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  1. Train bomb in Pakistan’s Baloch region: Why violence is on the rise  Al Jazeera
  2. A suicide bombing near a railway track in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23 people  AP News
  3. At Least 14 Killed in Bombing Attack That Derailed a Train in Pakistan  The New York Times
  4. Blast targeting train kills at least 20 in Pakistan  BBC
  5. Pakistan train bombing kills more than 30 people, official says  Reuters
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Thai rescuers join effort to free seven people trapped in Laos cave

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Group have been stuck in flooded cave in central Laos for five days after heavy rain caused landslides

Divers who helped in the dramatic rescue of a young Thai football team in 2018 have joined efforts to free seven people who have been trapped for five days inside a remote, flooded cave in central Laos.

The group entered the cave in Xaysomboun province on Wednesday to hunt for wildlife and search for gold, reports suggest. Heavy rain led to landslides, which blocked the cave entrance.

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Trump’s Pressure Had Little Effect on Iran’s Terms for a Peace Deal – The New York Times

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  1. Trump’s Pressure Had Little Effect on Iran’s Terms for a Peace Deal  The New York Times
  2. Why Trump’s possible Iran deal may be almost as divisive as his decision to wage war  CNN
  3. Why Trump Lost to Iran  The Atlantic
  4. Opinion | Trump’s Iran exit ramp is a long shot. He doesn’t have a better option.  The Washington Post
  5. Opinion | Will Trump Bail Out Iran’s Regime?  WSJ
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