MOROCCO   –  A 7-year-old Moroccan girl has died after a zoo elephant threw a rock at her. Managers at the zoo in the capital of Rabat confirmed the details in a press statement.

The girl died a few hours after being transferred to hospital. Video shot by a zoo visitor shows a number of people huddled around the girl and holding her head, which was flowing with blood, while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. The park management said the girl had been hit after the female elephant hurled the rock out of its enclosure. The girl had been in the visitors’ area with her family, looking at the elephant and trying to take a picture.

The Rabat zoo does not use a metal fence to separate the animals from the visitors but has a huge ditch and wooden fence. Zoo managers sent their condolences to the girl’s family and said in the statement that the zoo meets the required international safety standards.(CNN.COM/photo:cnn.com)…[+]

Police have recovered the licenced shotgun with which a 17-year-old, on his father’s orders, blasted 15-year-old Jaikarran Chandradeo and two men in the Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder area last Thursday.

Detectives have also impounded a boat that the killers used to flee the scene. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum disclosed Thursday that police will be seeking legal advice today on whether charges can be laid against the suspects, who include the 17-year-old, known as ‘Lima,’ his 38-year-old father, who is a farmer, and a 27-year-old employee of the farmer. Another worker is still at large.

Detectives took the alleged killers back to the scene of the murders Thursday. They were later taken to the Mibicuri Police Station.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:kaieteurnews.com)...[+]

LAKE ORION, Mich. — A suburban Detroit motorcyclist was apparently fast enough to leave police in the dust during a chase, but not swift enough to stop from bragging about it on Facebook.

Lake Orion police say 33-year-old Michael Brown, of Rochester Hills, turned himself in on Tuesday, three weeks after the incident. He’s charged with fleeing police and reckless driving. Police say an officer pulled up to Brown outside a restaurant after seeing loud motorcycle maneuvers in the street. Brown sped off and the officer eventually stopped pursuing him. Police say Brown boasted on Facebook that he was going “140 in a 35 mph” zone. He added: “#nojailthisweekend.” Someone shared the post with police.(nypost.com)…[+]

PHILADELPHIA — President Obama lavished praise on Hillary Clinton Wednesday night, telling Americans that if they want to continue the course he’s set for eight years, they should put her at the helm. “I’m ready to pass the baton,” Obama told the cheering crowd at the Democratic National Convention. “Time and again, you’ve picked me up. I hope, sometimes, I picked you up, too. Tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me.”(nypost.com)…[+]

After two days of tacking entirely left, Democrats finally tried to reach out Wednesday night to undecided voters — and had to contend with Bernie Sanders Democrats who booed down former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and sought to interrupt VP candidate Tim Kaine and current VP Joe Biden with chants against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.Those boos and interruptions were meaningful because their purpose was precisely to warn Hillary Clinton against any pivot to the center — to threaten her with the possibility that the slightest betrayal of the Sanders agenda might lead a significant number of the 13 million Sanders voters to stay home, or vote for third-party candidates or even Donald Trump.(nypost.com)…[+]

USA –   Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said yesterday that leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee were almost certainly perpetrated by the Russians and charged Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are “on the same page.”

“It certainly seems that that’s what’s gone on,” Albright said about the Republican presidential nominee and the Russian president, on CNN’s “New Day,” adding that she is waiting for an official determination from the FBI. “It’s like they’re on the same page, so there’s a lot of circumstantial evidence,” she added, validating the theory that Russians tried to influence US politics by hacking DNC mails.

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The Dutch Risk Reduction (DRR) Team presently in Guyana for the next three months to create hydraulic drainage models for the city of Georgetown, Tuesday visited pump stations around the capital.

At a ceremony Tuesday at the Ministry of Agriculture, five Masters Students from Delft University in the Netherlands introduced themselves to the local agencies that they will be working along with until October 12, 2016.

The Dutch Team consists of Peter Vijn, Thijmen Yaspers Focks, Siebe Dorrepaul Yos Muller, and their team leader Joost Remmers. The young men are here on behalf of the DRR Team which visited Guyana last November. Two other students are expected to arrive at a later date.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

CASTRIES, St. LUCIA- Across the Caribbean, policymakers rely heavily on the availability of timely, accurate and reliable poverty data to support national and regional development initiatives. Despite making considerable progress on how they measure poverty, many countries in the Region do not frequently update or report on key poverty indicators, and are not able to assess the non-income dimensions of poverty and human development.

On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 in Saint Lucia, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) launched a programme designed to address these challenges, and improve the way its 19 Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) assess poverty and gain access to data from these assessments.

CDB is supporting the Programme through a total investment of USD 4.1 million. It will be conducted over a five-year period.The Programme will enhance the capacity of CDB’s BMCs to conduct multidimensional poverty assessments. (CDBnews)…[+]

UAE –  It’s taken more than 500 days and overcome countless problems, but the epic journey of Solar Impulse 2 is finally complete.

The experimental solar-powered plane made aviation history when it landed in Abu Dhabi yesterday , after successfully circumnavigating the globe without using a single drop of fuel. The record-breaking mission flown by two Swiss pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, evoked memories of the likes of the Wright brothers and Amelia Earhart — aviation pioneers with a similar spirit of adventure and innovation.

Borschberg is an ex-fighter pilot and MIT engineering graduate, while Piccard — who also made the first non-stop round-the-world balloon flight in 1999 — comes from a long line of adventurers.(CNN.COM/photo: Getty Images)…[+]

GERMANY   – A patient shot a doctor  yesterday at a Berlin hospital, then turned the gun on himself, police in the German capital said.

The doctor is hospitalized in critical condition, Berlin police spokeswoman Kerstin Ismer said. The shooter is dead, and the hospital campus is secure, police said.

The shooting occurred at a hospital in the Steglitz neighborhood in southwest Berlin. Police haven’t released details about the shooter’s identity or motive. There’s no indication of terrorism, Ismer said.(CNN.COM/photo: static.independent.co.uk)…[+]