confronting
the suspect and failing shooting him. Unfortunately, there may have been other victims as well.
Two employees of the American embassy in Mexico City were injured when their vehicle
came under fire
on a road near the capital. Mexican officials said more than 30 shots were fired at the vehicle which has diplomatic license plates. Reports say Mexican police were looking into reports of a stolen car in the area near the city of Cuernavaca and opened fire as the car failed to stop at a checkpoint. The US state Department says it’s working with Mexican authorities to investigate the incident.
Syrian opposition sources say that 21 people have been killed in an air raid and artillery attack on residential buildings in Mayadin, a town in the east near the Iraqi border. The Syrian army has also resumed its bombardment of Darayya on the outskirt of Damascus. Activists say at last 21 people have been killed. There are also reports of heavy government shelling on several districts in the northern city of Aleppo.
The campaign group Amnesty International says it’s been told that Gambia has executed nine prisoners out of 47 who’ve been on
death row
. An Amnesty spokeswoman told the BBC the executions, the first in the Gambia for 29 years, were reported to include a woman and three citizens of Senegal.
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The British government is organizing an emergency response to a