Policemen Killed in Terrorist Attack
Four policemen were shot and killed Thursday in southwest Pakistan by a group of Islamic militants.
A spokesman for the Baluchistan provincial government says the policemen were on a routine patrol in the capital city, Quetta,when the gunmen intercepted their vehicle and sprayed it with bullets before fleeing the scene. The dead officers included police Superintendent Mubarak Shah.
A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban calling itself Jamaatul Ahrar has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The United Nations earlier this week designated Jamaatul Ahrar a global terrorist organization, saying the group operates out of neighboring Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province.
A suicide bomber riding a motorbike on Monday blew himself up near a police vehicle in the town of Chaman, near the Afghan border, killing the district police chief and two others.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack.
British PM 'shed a little tear' at election result
British Prime Minister Theresa May admitted Thursday she shed "a little tear" after realising her election gamble last month had backfired spectacularly, but denied she had considered quitting.
In an interview marking one year in office, the Conservative leader said it came as a "complete shock" to realise she had lost her parliamentary majority after calling a snap vote in expectation of a landslide.
The party lost 13 seats in the June 8 election and now holds 317 out of 650 in parliament, relying on support from Northern Ireland's ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party to be able to govern.
May during the campaign emphasised her "strong and stable leadership" as Britain headed into Brexit, but she was accused of a robotic performance, relying too much on soundbites.
She has since come under pressure to resign.
"I didn't consider stepping down, because I felt there was a responsibility there to ensure the country still had a government," May told BBC radio.
She added: "It can be easy sometimes, if something like this happens, just to walk away and to leave somebody else to deal with it.
"What I've said to my colleagues, is that I got us into this and I'm going to work to get us out."
The 60-year-old vicar's daughter said her husband Philip informed her of the projected result after polls closed.
"It took a few minutes for it to sink in," she said, adding that he gave her a hug and she shed "a little tear... at that moment".
She said she was "devastated".
"I knew the campaign wasn't going perfectly but, still, the messages I was getting... were that we were going to get a better result than we did."
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TCICA Summer Cricket Competition resumes in Provo
The TCICA Summer Cricket Competition commenced on Sunday 2nd July 2017, at the Downtown Ball Park in Providenciales.
Mitsubishi Electric Tigers won the toss and was elected to bat first, and reached 125 for 9 wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Gareth Butler led the way with an elegant 42 runs which was decorated with 4 fours and Marlon Graham added 24 runs consisting of 2x4s.
Bowling for Quality Super kings Chabbie Charley and Pawan Kumar with 3 wickets each.
In reply, Quality Super Kings were skittle out for paltry 26 runs from 8 overs.
Bowling for Mitsubishi Electric Tigers Dane Ritchie snatched 6 wickets for 12 runs from 4 overs and Damian St Ange Captured 4 wickets for 11 runs from 4 overs
Man of the match awarded to Dane Ritchie
Oscar on the brain? Newbie actress Rihanna
While Rihanna's movie career hasn't been that extensive to date, she does have two big films coming up: this summer's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and the caper film Ocean's 8, due next year. The Grammy winner says one day, she'd like to add an Oscar to her trophy shelf.
Speaking to the British paper The Sun, she says, "I’d love to get there one day. Who doesn’t want to be told they are doing a great job? Any validation that your work is impacting is rewarding. I work hard and put my all into everything I do, but the rest isn’t up to me."
She adds, "I don’t think anyone makes an album thinking about winning a Grammy, or makes a movie thinking about winning an Oscar. What you do is work as hard as you can and if awards follow, then that’s great.”
In Valerian, Rihanna plays Bubble, a shape-shifting alien. In Ocean's 8, she plays one of a crew of women who try to pull off a heist at New York City's annual Met Gala.
“I just do what’s best for the role, what’s best for me," she tells The Sun. "I’d love to do something dark and different and challenge myself.”
And while she may be one of the world's biggest stars in music, she knows that when it comes to movies, she's not in a position to throw her weight around.
As she puts it, "You don't do diva on film sets."
Valerian is in theaters July 21.
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LeEco chairman 'has bank accounts frozen
The billionaire co-founder of struggling Chinese technology giant LeEco has had personal assets frozen by a Shanghai court, state media reports.
Assets worth a combined 1.24bn yuan ($183m; £141m) belonging to Jia Yueting, his wife, and three affiliates have reportedly been blocked.
The ruling follows LeEco's failure to pay interest due on bank loans taken out to fund its smartphone business.
Neither Mr Jia nor the company has commented on the reports.
LeEco was for a while known as the Netflix of China, a company that streamed content and eventually started making its own original material.
But it then drew comparison with the likes of Apple and Tesla when it began branching out into hardware, including a smart TV, phones and electric cars.
LeEco started selling devices in the US at the tail end of last year, but is now facing a cash crunch and has been forced to slash costs, including making job cuts.
Mr Jia, who resigned as chief executive in May but retains his position as chairman, recently admitted to shareholders that its financial problems were "more severe than we expected".
In April, a $2bn deal to buy consumer electronics-maker Vizio was called off because of "regulatory headwinds".
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North Korea missile test was ICBM
The US has confirmed that North Korea on Tuesday tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called it a "new escalation of the threat" to the US and the world and warned that Washington "will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea".
Pyongyang earlier said it was its first successful intercontinental ballistic missile test.
US officials believe the North may now be able to fire a missile to Alaska.
However, experts say it cannot accurately hit a target.
In response to the test over the Sea of Japan, the US and South Korea conducted a "combined [military] exercise to show our precision fire capability", Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement.
The US also asked for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the issue. A closed-door session of the 15-member body is expected later on Wednesday.
In a statement, Mr Tillerson said: "The United States strongly condemns North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
"Testing an ICBM represents a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region, and the world."
Mr Tillerson stressed that "global action is required to stop a global threat".
And he warned that any nation that provided economic or military benefits to the North or failed to fully implement UN Security Council resolution was "aiding and abetting a dangerous regime.
The announcement on North Korea state television said the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test was overseen by leader Kim Jong-un.
It said the projectile had reached an altitude of 2,802km (1,731 miles) and flew 933km for 39 minutes before hitting a target in the sea.
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Drone causes Gatwick Airport disruption
A drone flying close to Gatwick Airport, led to the closure of the runway and forced five flights to be diverted.
An airport spokesman said the runway had been closed for two periods of nine minutes and five minutes on Sunday evening after the drone was sighted.
Easy-jet said four of its flights had been diverted, while British Airways said one aircraft had been sent to Bournemouth. Other flights had to fly holding-patterns as a precaution.
Sussex Police is investigating.
The airport said "Runway operations at Gatwick were suspended between 18:10 BST and 18:19, and again from 18:36 to 18:41 BST, resulting in a small number of go-arounds and diverts.
"Operations have resumed and the police continue to investigate," it said.
Passengers have told the BBC how their flights were diverted away from Gatwick.
An Easy-jet spokeswoman said while the circumstances were outside of their control, Easy-jet apologises for any inconvenience caused.
In November 2016, the UK's drone code was revised and updated to help pilots ensure they fly the gadgets safely.
Former senior air traffic controller Doug Maclean told BBC News that aviation authorities had to "act on the safe side" in incidents involving drones.
Three Men from Dominican Republic Arrested in $3 Million Drug Bust
Three nationals of the Dominican Republic have been arrested while attempting to smuggle 151 kilogrammes of cocaine worth approximately $3.7 million into the United States.
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with officers of the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF) arrested the trio on Monday.
A Coast Guard maritime patrol aircraft had detected a 25-foot boat traveling without navigation lights. Three law enforcement vessels – one from the US Coast Guard and two from the Puerto Rico Police Department – were deployed to intercept the suspicious vessel.
Upon approach by the Coast Guard, the crew of the vessel threw five large bales overboard and sped away before stopping approximately six nautical miles north of Loiza.
The vessel was seized, the crew taken into custody and the bales recovered and found to contain128 bricks of cocaine and two objects which tested positive for heroin.
The three Dominican nationals have been charged with possession and importation of a controlled substance and failure to heave. They had their initial hearing before the magistrate Tuesday and were transferred to the Guaynabo Metropolitan Detention Center to await the outcome of their case.
They face a term of 10 years to life in prison for the narcotics violations.
CARICOM Heads of Government meet this week
The Thirty-Eighth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will take place in Grenada 4 – 6 July 2017, under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Grenada Dr. Rt. Hon Keith Mitchell.
Following an Opening Ceremony today 4 July at the Grenada Trade Centre, the Heads of Government will move to the Radisson Grenada Beach Resort for the business sessions on 5 -6 July. The Conference will welcome its two of its newest Members - the President of Haiti H.E. Jovenel Moise, who was sworn into office on 7 February, and the Prime Minister of The Bahamas Hon. Dr. Hubert Minnis who took his oath of office on 11 May.
This meeting is expected to include the presentation for approval by the Heads of a Human Resource Development 2030 Strategy and Implementation Plan to address the development of skills for the 21st century Caribbean economy and society.
The Heads of Government are also expected to deliberate on outstanding matters related to the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) following the comprehensive review of the CSME’s performance, presented to them at the last Inter-Sessional Meeting in February.
There is also expected to be an update on the preparations for CARIFESTA XIII (23), to be staged in Barbados 17 – 27 August, under the theme “Asserting our Culture, celebrating ourselves. The work on the Commissions on Reparations and Marijuana is also expected to come under the spotlight. So too, the progress made with implementing the specified actions, agreed a decade ago, under the 2007 Port of Spain declaration to stop the epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases (NDCs)”. Regional Security issues are also expected to receive attention.
A highlight of the Opening Ceremony would be the presentation of the Triennial Award for Women to the latest recipient. The Ceremony will be addressed by the two new Members of the Conference, the outgoing Chairman, President of Guyana H.E. David Granger, the incoming Chairman, and the Secretary-General of CARICOM, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.
TCI Hospital launches revised Fall Prevention Program
Turks and Caicos Islands Hospital has implemented a revised program of best practices in fall prevention to help minimize the incidence and severity of falls. While not every patient fall is preventable, the health care facility has utilized a combination of steps, care processes and precision to prevent falls.
Fall Prevention Expert based in Canada, Elaine Fockler RN, has updated and customized the internal program and conducted various training sessions. The sessions included education on the tools and interventions used to assess and reduce the risk of falls and injury from falls in adults and children.
Professional disciplines beyond nursing staff including rehabilitation services, pharmacy, physicians and nonclinical staff have also been sensitized. A total of 75 clinical and 38 Facilities Management staff have received training.
Mechanisms have been developed for departments to identify and communicate if a patient is at high risk for falls. Every Friday will be observed as "Fall Prevention Friday" at TCI Hospital to ensure every in-patient receives a fall risk assessment. This initiative will be enforced in addition to the completion of fall risk assessments upon admission, upon unit transfer if there is a significant change in the patients' status and post fall.
Green armbands will be applied to all patients who are identified to be at risk of a fall. In-patients found to be at risk will receive a green triangle placed on the door of their assigned room and above their bed. Patients in the Operating Room will have green socks applied. These green identifiers will alert hospital staff members that the patient is at risk of falling and requires special assistance.
Most falls are caused by the interaction of multiple risk factors. The more risk factors a person has, the greater their chances of falling. Healthcare providers and caregivers at home can lower a person's risk by reducing or minimizing that individual's risk factors and environmental hazards.
Persons who are more likely to fall may experience risk factors such advanced age, gait & balance problems, impairments such as poor vision or muscle weakness, postural hypotension, chronic conditions including arthritis, diabetes, stroke, Parkinson's, incontinence and dementia. The revised program will help to reduce the social, psychological and economic impact of falls on individuals, families and the community.