North Carolina man kills 6 relatives, himself
AP, Pittsboro
A 66-year-old man fatally shot six relatives in a small North Carolina community over the weekend, then killed himself, authorities said Monday.
The shooting happened late Sunday afternoon in the Moncure area of Chatham County, the county sheriff’s office said in a statement. Evidence indicates that Larry Don Ray shot and killed the six others before turning the gun on himself, Lt. Sara Pack, an agency spokeswoman, said in a statement.
London public transport to run reduced service due to coronavirus
Reuters, London
London’s public transport will begin operating a reduced service over the next few days because of the spread of coronavirus, the city’s mayor Sadiq Khan said on Tuesday.
“Today is a regular service in Transport for London. Over the course of the next few weekdays we will reduce that to probably a Saturday and a Sunday service, and then we will reduce it again depending on what the demand is,” Khan told Sky News.
Turkey, Germany, France and UK to discuss
migration crisis
Reuters, Ankara
President Tayyip Erdogan will hold a teleconference on Tuesday with German, French and British leaders to discuss Turkey’s standoff with the European Union after it opened its borders to migrants trying to enter the bloc.
Tens of thousands of migrants tried to get into Greece, a European Union member state, after Turkey said on Feb. 28 it would no longer keep them on its territory as part of a 2016 deal with Brussels in return for EU aid.
EU-China summit postponed due to coronavirus
Reuters, Brussels
A summit between China and the European Union has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the European Commission said on Tuesday, confirming a Reuters report on March 12. China never publicly gave a date for the meeting between Premier Li Keqiang and the new European Commission and European Council presidents, Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, but EU diplomats said March 30-31 had been agreed.
“The EU and China have decided jointly that the EU-China summit would not take place for the time being, in order to allow both sides to focus on the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” an EU spokeswoman said.
