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• Dutch mourn 6 shopping mall shooting victims Apr 10, 2022 06:18 AM
  
  • AMSTERDAM - Church services were held Sunday in a quiet suburb outside Amsterdam to mourn six people killed by a gunman at a crowded mall, as investigators puzzled over his motive and struggled to explain how he was able to obtain and legally own five firearms in the Netherlands.
  • The attacker, identified as 24-year-old Tristan van der Vlis, had minor run-ins with the police, including an illegal weapons possession charge in 2003 when he was 17 that was eventually dropped, District Attorney Kitty Nooy said.
  • "This is definitely part of our investigation," she said.

  • Leftist leads in Peru election but runoff likely Apr 10, 2022 05:49 AM
    
    • LIMA, Peru - A leftist former military officer who promises to favor the poor by redistributing Peru's mineral wealth was expected to win the most votes in Sunday's presidential elections but fall far short of the outright majority needed to avoid a runoff.
    • Technically tied for second in an election-eve poll were Keiko Fujimori, 35-year-old daughter of the imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori whom Peruvians alternately adore and vilify, and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a 72-year-old former World Bank economist and investment banker.
    • Trailing them was Alejandro Toledo, Peru's president from 2001-2006.

    • Beijing police halt unapproved church service Apr 10, 2022 05:32 AM
      
      • BEIJING - Beijing police on Sunday detained dozens of worshippers from an unapproved Christian church who were trying to hold services in a public space after they were evicted from their usual place of worship, a parishioner said.
      • Leaders of the unregistered Shouwang church had told members to gather at an open-air venue in Beijing for Sunday morning services, but police, apparently alerted to their plans, taped off the area and took away people who showed up to take part.
      • More than 60 million Christians are believed to worship in China's independent churches, compared with about 20 million who worship in the state church, according to scholars and church activists.

      • Death toll hits 5 in Hawaii fireworks bunker blast Apr 10, 2022 05:23 AM
        
        • WAIPAHU, Hawaii - The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks storage site in Hawaii rose to five after a bomb squad recovered the bodies of two missing men, officials said.
        • The blast near the Waikele Business Center at a former military bunker where fireworks were warehoused occurred Friday, killing three people and leaving the two missing.
        • The bunker burned throughout the day and was too hot and unstable to enter until Saturday, when the bodies of the two missing men were found, Honolulu Fire Department Capt. Gary Lum told The Associated Press.

        • Japan's PM visits fishing city wrecked by tsunami Apr 10, 2022 05:20 AM
          
          • TOKYO - Prime Minister Naoto Kan paid another visit to Japan's tsunami-devastated coast Sunday, promising officials in a fishing-dependent city that his government will do whatever it can to help.
          • Kan visited Ishinomaki, a coastal city of 163,000 people in Miyagi, one of the prefectures (states) hardest hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that killed as many as 25,000 people, destroyed miles of coastline and left tens of thousands homeless.
          • "The government will do its utmost to help you," Kan, dressed in blue work clothes, told local people gathered near the sea.

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