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Morning Brief: London Driver Charged With Terrorism After Parliament Crash

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08/14/2018

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Morning Brief: London Driver Charged With Terrorism After Parliament Crash

Top News: Several people have been injured after a car crashed into barriers outside the British Houses of Parliament early on Tuesday morning.

The driver, a man in his late twenties, has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism.

Eyewitnesses told the BBC that the man appeared to swerve the car to deliberately hit members of the public.

Two patients have been taking to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

British parliamentarians are currently on summer recess until Sept. 4. The Houses of Parliament have been subjected to heightened security since March 2017, when a man mowed down pedestrians on nearby Westminster bridge, killing six people and injuring dozens in a terrorist attack.

Venezuela: With the Venezuelan economy in free fall, President Nicolás Maduro announced plans to curb fuel subsidies in a bid to stop gasoline being smuggled out to Colombia and the Caribbean. Fuel price rises in 1989 sparked deadly riots in the capital, Caracas.

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Africa

•  Police in Uganda fired live rounds into a crowd and arrested an opposition MP on charges of obstructing the presidential motorcade ahead of a parliamentary by-election.

•  Malian opposition candidate Soumaila Cissé said that he would reject the results of the runoff presidential election, and called on the population to “rise up.”

•  Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi proposed giving women equal inheritance rights.

Americas

•  Just days after he was appointed to the position, the Chilean culture minister was forced to resign over comments he made in 2015 suggesting that a human rights museum in the capital is a “manipulation of history.”

•  Party primaries are taking place in four U.S. states on Tuesday, ahead of November’s midterm elections.

•  Twelve fans of the Ecuadorian football team Barcelona SC were killed when the bus they were traveling in overturned.

Asia

•  The Taliban overran a Afghan military base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers.

•  The governments of Hong Kong and China have condemned the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club for hosting a speech by an independence activist.

•  As many as 50 Chinese nationals have been arrested in southern Cambodia in a crackdown on prostitution rings.

Europe

•  A motorway bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy. Local police sources told Reuters that at least 10 people have been killed.

•  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the U.S. dollar’s role as a global currency is in decline.

•  Migrant rescue ship MV Aquarius is stranded in the Mediterranean for the second time after being refused permission to dock by Italy and Malta. There are currently 141 people on board.

Middle East

•  At least two people have been killed and six injured when a bomb exploded in a crowded market in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday.

•  Egypt marks the fifth anniversary of the so-called Rabaa massacre, in which security forces killed hundreds of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

•  The prime minister of Iraq walked back his commitment to abide by U.S. sanctions on Iran, saying that his country would only abide by the ban on using dollars in transactions.

- By Amy Mackinnon

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