Our Top Stories for the Week of April 18, 2022
It’s been a busy week, from a shooting in South Carolina which left 14 people injured to the Sri Lankan president appointing a new cabinet amidst calls for his resignation. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top five stories of the week.
Shooting in South Carolina Mall Leaves at least 14 Wounded
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Following a shooting at a Columbia mall in South Carolina on Saturday, at least fourteen people were injured. Investigators have reasons to believe that the display of firearms inside the mall was done by at least three suspects and efforts are currently being put into determining how many of them fired the weapons. Police state that there were no fatalities and out of the three armed people initially detained as suspects, one currently remains in police custody for unlawful carrying of a pistol.
The Columbia chief of Police, W H "Skip" Holbrook in a press conference Saturday afternoon said "We believe the individuals that were armed knew each other, and there was some type of conflict that occurred which resulted in gunfire.
Source: ABC News
US Woman Pleads Guilty to Staging Fake Kidnap Case
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In November 2019, 39 years old Sherri Papini disappeared while running near her home and remained gone for three week before reappearing on Thanksgiving day at the side of a road in Yolo county, northern California. Papini was reported missing by her husband Keith on 2nd November after she failed to pick their children up from the daycare. Her mobile phone was found 1.6km from their house.
Papini had told the police that she had been kidnapped by two Hispanic women, and the FBI released sketches of what the women supposedly looked like, also offering up a cash reward of $10,000 (£7,500) is being offered for information leading to the identification of her suspected captors. Her husband, Keith was cleared from suspicion after he submitted to a polygraph or a lie detector test.
Source: BBC
Sri Lankan President Appoints New Cabinet, Dismissing Calls for His Resignation
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Amidst protests and calls for his resignation over the disastrous economic crisis and state of the country, the besieged Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaska has appointed a new cabinet. The newly appointed cabinet on Monday consists of 17 new ministers that excluded the president's several relatives who previously held portfolios in the administration, with the exception of his older brother who is the nation's Prime Minister. Rajapaska's calls for members of the opposing party to join a unity government was turned down, and facing the resignation of his ministers, appointing new cabinet members was crucial.
Mass protests began in early April with people calling for Rajapaksa to quit. His cabinet resigned in large numbers, showing their agreement with the public sentiments but he has refused to go, despite the opposition arguing that he had lost the people's mandate.
Source: The Tribune
40 Arrested in Violent Riots over Plans to Burn Copies of Quran in Sweden
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Violent clashes between the police and people angry about plans of a far-right group to burn copies of the Qur'an in Sweden have resulted in the arrest of more than 40 people. According to the police, at least three people sustained injuries in Norrkoping on Sunday when officers fired warning shots at the protesters.
The violent riots were sparked by a series of rallies organized by Rasmus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish politician who stated that he had burned a copy of the Islamic holy book and is set to do the same thing again.
Source: BBC
South Africa's Government to Begin Rebuilding after Disastrous Floods
Photo Source: The New York Times
Over 4,000 homes have been destroyed and more than twice as many damaged in the Durban area after a week of disastrous rains and mudslides. With about four dozen people missing, the death toll has now climbed up to 448.
It has been a week since heavy rains flooded the coastal region, causing one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of South Africa and on Tuesdays, the government said it could see a long and difficult road ahead of rebuilding and cleanup attempts, while the dozens of bodies that were believed to have been buried under the mud or washed out to sea were still trying to be recovered.
Source: The New York Times
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