Trump to prefer to pick a woman for UN envoy
Reuters, Washington
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would prefer to pick a woman to take over the job of Washington’s United Nations ambassador.
Trump, speaking to reporters in Elko, Nevada, said he was currently interviewing three women and two men for the position. “I’m going to pick the best person,” he said.
Nikki Haley, who currently holds the job, said earlier this month that she would be stepping down at the end of the year.
Gunmen kill 9 in Philippine
AP, Philippines
Gunmen killed nine members of a farmers’ group who occupied part of a privately owned sugarcane plantation in a central Philippine province, police said Sunday.
The victims were resting in a hut Saturday night when about 10 gunmen opened fire, police said. At least four farmers survived the attack at the plantation in Sagay city in Negros Occidental province, which has a history of bloody land feuds.
“There are groups fighting over that land,” Sagay police Chief Inspector Roberto Mansueto said.
Angola says 380,000 illegal migrants exit in weeks
AFP, Dundo (Angola)
About 380,000 illegal migrants, mostly from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, have left Angola in less than a month during a massive operation targeting diamond smuggling, a minister said Saturday.
On a visit to Dundo in northern Angola on the border with DR Congo, Pedro Sebastiao dismissed allegations that the migrants had been violently expelled and often beaten by police.
3 rebels, 5 civilians die in Kashmir
AP, Srinagar
Three suspected rebels were killed in a gunbattle with Indian government forces in disputed Kashmir on Sunday, and five civilians were killed in an explosion at the site after the fighting was over, officials and residents said. The fighting erupted after troops cordoned off a village in the southern Kulgam area on a tip that rebels were hiding there, India’s military said. The exchange lasted for several hours, and three militants were killed and two soldiers injured, the military said.
China coal-mine accident kills 2
AP, Beijing
Two people died and 20 were trapped in a coal mine in eastern China on Sunday after a rock burst destroyed part of a mining tunnel, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The spontaneous fracturing of rock – a kind of earthquake induced by excavation – took place around 11 p.m. Saturday in Shandong province. Part of a water drainage tunnel was destroyed in the burst, Xinhua said, and two people were killed by fractured rocks that fell in the tunnel.
More than 300 people were working inside the mine at the time. Most have been successfully lifted to safety, while 20 remain trapped underground.
