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US police kill in 380th mass shooting.
A street shooting targeting police officers in the north-central U.S. state of North Dakota has left one officer dead and three others injured.
According to local police, the Associated Press, and others, a lone gunman opened fire in the Fargo, North Dakota, area around 3 p.m. local time, killing one police officer and wounding two officers and a civilian.
The gunman was killed on the spot by police return fire.
The gunman, whose identity has not been released, safetotosite.pro reportedly began firing at officers on a somewhat crowded street, who returned fire.
Police say two of the wounded officers are in critical condition, and the injured citizen is also in critical condition.
"Something very difficult has happened to us," said a local police spokesperson, adding that an investigation is underway and the families of the victims are being notified.
Earlier in the day, five people were injured when gunmen opened fire on people leaving a funeral home in Bladensburg, Maryland, in a vehicle.
The North Dakota shooting is the 380th mass shooting in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a U.S.-based nonprofit foundation that defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are killed.
Vatican-China rift sealed; Pope approves Shanghai bishop in three months.
After China broke yet another agreement with the Vatican and unilaterally appointed a Catholic bishop, reigniting tensions between the two sides, Pope Francis has stepped in to try to repair the rift.
The Vatican released a statement on Sept. 15, saying that Pope Francis had appointed Bishop Sun Bin as bishop of the Shanghai diocese.
In April, the Chinese government appointed Bishop Sun Bin of the Chinese Catholic Bishops' Conference as head bishop of the Shanghai diocese without consulting the Vatican. Three months later, the pope formally approved Sun's appointment.
China had been appointing bishops independently until 2018, when it signed a provisional agreement with the Holy See on bishop appointments.
The agreement stipulates that bishop candidates appointed by China will be approved by the pope before being ordained, and that China will recognize the pope as the supreme Catholic leader.
The two-year agreement was renewed in October 2020 and then extended for two more years last October.
The agreement states that Chinese authorities must consult with the Vatican on the appointment of bishops,카지노사이트넷 but China has been appointing bishops without consultation.
In November of last year, Chinese authorities also merged five dioceses in the city of Nanchang to form the Diocese of Jiangxi and appointed a new bishop without consulting the Vatican.
At the time, the Vatican called it "shocking and regrettable" and warned that it "hopes that similar events will not be repeated," but the Chinese government again unilaterally appointed a bishop for Shanghai in April.
"Pope Francis decided to approve Bishop Sun for the sake of the cause," Cardinal Pietro Parolin, head of the Vatican's Secretariat of State, told the Vatican's state media that day.
While Pope Francis ultimately chose to end the conflict by approving the Chinese government's unilateral appointment, it is likely that criticism of the Vatican's agreement with Beijing will only increase.
"Pope Francis has bowed to China's unilateral appointment of a new bishop for Shanghai," according to the Associated Press.
Catholics in China are estimated to number as few as 6 million and as many as 12 million.
Zelensky expresses condolences for severe South Korean rain.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his condolences over the loss of life caused by torrential rains in South Korea, AFP reports.
"I would like to convey my condolences and those of all Ukrainians in connection with the terrible floods that have hit South Korea," Zelensky said in a joint press release following a meeting with South Korean President Yun Suk-yol in the Ukrainian capital of Chiayi on Friday, AFP reported.
Yun extended his trip and made a surprise visit to Ukraine, which is at war with Russia over its invasion, 카지노사이트킴where he held talks with Zelensky at the Mariinsky Palace, the presidential residence in Kiev.
Earlier, Yun arrived in Warsaw, Poland, the next stop on his tour after a visit to Lithuania, host of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit on Tuesday.
289 Mediterranean migrant children died in first half of year.
Nearly 300 migrant children died in the first half of this year as a result of boat sinkings while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Europe, according to a new report.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that at least 289 migrant children have died in the first half of this year due to the sinking of migrant boats in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe, according to Al Jazeera.
UNICEF added that the actual death toll could be higher, as there are many undocumented migrant boats that are not captured in statistics, and when a boat sinks, there are often few survivors.
"These are preventable deaths," Verena Knauss, UNICEF's migration chief, said at a press conference the day before, calling for "enough safe, legal and accessible routes to Europe for children to be protected."
In the first half of this year alone, nearly 11,600 children crossed the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe, nearly double the number in the same period last year, according to UNICEF.
Most of them set out from African countries such as Guinea, Senegal, and Zambia, as well as some Middle Eastern countries, 먹튀검증토토사이트and arrive in North Africa's Libya and Tunisia, where migrant boats depart a few months later.
Notably, in the first three months of this year, some 3,300 children - 71% of those who crossed to Europe via this route - traveled alone, unaccompanied by a parent or adult.
Along the way, UNICEF noted, children are exposed to detention, looting, torture, trafficking, violence, exploitation, and rape.
"These children need to know that they are not alone," said Knauss, "and it is time for world leaders to urgently take action to show them the undeniable value of life."
