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Coast Guard: 2 dead, 5 missing after migrant boat capsizes
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Coast Guard: 2 dead, 5 missing after migrant boat capsizes
By JEAN-CLAUDE BENOIT
In this image posted on the USCGSoutheast Twitter page, rescue crews safely transfer people from a grounded vessel believed to be carrying migrants, to U.S. Coast Guard ships, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, off the coast of Key Largo, Fla., near the gated community of Ocean Reef. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
Coast Guard: 2 dead, 5 missing after migrant boat capsizes
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Two people died and five were missing after a boat believed to be carrying migrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally capsized off the coast of the Florida Keys, the Coast Guard said.
Eight people were rescued, the Coast Guard said in a news release Friday. The agency described the boat as a “rustic vessel” that was making an illegal voyage with 15 migrant passengers. It was not immediately clear where the migrants were originally from. Reports of the capsized vessel about 14 miles (about 23 kilometers) south of Sugarloaf Key reached the Coast Guard around 10 a.m. Friday. One person was rescued from the water by the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Mariner of the Seas, the Coast Guard said.
“Our search continues for others that may have survived this tragic incident,” said Rear Adm. Brendan McPherson, commander of the Seventh Coast Guard District. “This situation highlights the risks these migrants face as they attempt to enter the United States illegally by sea.” Meanwhile, the Coast Guard responded to a grounded sailing vessel that was believed to be carrying more than 100 migrants Saturday afternoon.
The boat was spotted off the coast of Key Largo, near the gated community of Ocean Reef, officials said. Rescue crews transferred the people from the grounded vessel to Coast Guard ships, officials said. Some entered the water without life jackets and needed to be rescued, the Coast Guard said.
Photos taken from a WPLG-TV helicopter showed dozens of people sitting on the grass, having been given blankets and towels.Officials did not immediately release details about where the people were from or specify how many were on board.
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Boris Johnson bows to pressure to resign
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to media next to 10 Downing Street in London, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has agreed to resign, his office said Thursday, ending an unprecedented political crisis over his future that has paralyzed Britain’s government. An official in Johnson’s Downing Street office confirmed the prime minister would announce his resignation later. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Boris Johnson has defied the normal rules of politics for so long, it is hard to believe he is actually going.
LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday after droves of top government officials quit over the latest scandal to implicate him, marking an end to his three-year reign.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters and onlookers at the lectern outside 10 Downing Street, Johnson said, “It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister.”
Johnson did not become emotional, nor did he apologize for the behavior that brought the 58-year-old politician to this point.
Instead, he blamed his party for his downfall, comparing his fellow lawmakers to stampeding animals. “As we have seen at Westminster … when the herd moves, it moves. And my friends, in politics, no one is remotely indispensable,” Johnson said.
Johnson paid tribute to his wife, Carrie, who was watching his speech with their young daughter in her arms. Johnson said they had been through “so much,” but he did not signal any of it was his fault.
“I know there are many people who are relieved, and perhaps quite a few who will also be disappointed. I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world. But them’s the breaks,” Johnson said.
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Japan ex-PM Abe assassinated at campaign stop
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Former Japanses prime minister Shinzo Abe, the country’s longest-serving leader, died on July 8 after being shot while attending a campaign events.
Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, killed at age 67 in shooting attack as he delivered campaign speech.
Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot as he gave a campaign speech Friday in western Japan and airlifted to a hospital, but the country’s national public broadcaster NHK said later that he had succumbed to his injuries. Multiple Japanese and international news outlets cited officials from Abe’s political party and the regional hospital where he was treated as confirming his death.
Local fire department official Makoto Morimoto said Abe was in cardiopulmonary arrest, or CPA, meaning he was not breathing and his heart had stopped, even as he was airlifted to the hospital.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that police had arrested a male suspect at the scene of the attack.
Current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who belongs to the same political party as Abe, returned to Tokyo by helicopter from his own campaign destination of Yamagata, in northern Japan. He told reporters earlier that he was “not aware of the motives and background behind this attack, but this attack is an act of brutality that happened during the elections — the very foundation of our democracy — and is absolutely unforgivable.”
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President Joe Biden has said a federal law would be the “fastest way” to restore abortion rights as he signed an order to safeguard abortion access.
He called a recent Supreme Court abortion ruling, which ended the nationwide right to the procedure, “an exercise in raw political power”.
It paved the way for individual US states to decide if and how to allow abortions. Mr Biden has faced pressure to respond to the ruling with bolder action. The presidential order, signed on Friday, is expected to have a limited impact – to mitigate some of the restrictions but not fully restore abortion rights.
Mr Biden has maintained that his ability to institute abortion rights is limited without action from the US Congress.
“The fastest route to restore Roe is to pass a national law codifying Roe,” Mr Biden said, referring to the landmark 1973 ruling that guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion.
In his remarks, he emphasised this was an issue for the coming midterm elections and urged people to vote in Democratic majorities as the fastest way to bring Roe V Wade back, and said that US voters had a choice between “the mainstream or the extreme”.
President Joe Biden has said a federal law would be the “fastest way” to restore abortion rights as he signed an order to safeguard abortion access.