Let’s take a look at the latest news in ‘The World Now’.
French government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot, who is a candidate in the country’s snap parliamentary election, was attacked while campaigning in Paris as a growing number of candidates and activists are being targeted in the run-up to Sunday’s final round of elections.
Thevenot was putting up election posters with members of her team in the southwest of Paris when a gang of around 10 youths assaulted them for trying to stop them from defacing party posters.
While Thevenot herself was not harmed, her deputy suffered an arm injury, and a campaign team member activist ended up with a broken jaw.
French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin, said police arrested four people including three teenagers.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal condemned the attacks and called on French citizens to “reject the climate of violence and hatred that’s taking hold.”
30,000 police are set to be deployed across France for Sunday’s second round of parliamentary elections to ensure order is maintained.
Following Tuesday’s crowd crush at a Hindu religious event in India that left 121 people dead the Indian police said on Thursday that they had arrested six people in connection with the incident.
A police report said that some 250,000 people gathered to listen to preacher Suraj Pal Singh, also known as ‘Bhole Baba’, while the organizers of the event only had permission for a maximum of 80,000 people.
Four men and two women were arrested for the deadly crush in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, all of whom were aides of the religious leader.
Preacher Baba stated on Wednesday that the stampede was caused by “anti-social elements” with no further explanation given.
Officials said that by Thursday, the dead, which includes 112 women and seven children, have all been identified and their bodies given back to their families.
This summer in Russia is proving to be one of the hottest seen in more than a century.
Moscow broke its 1917 temperature record this week, and many cities across the country are sweltering in temperatures well above 35 degrees Celsius.
According to the FOBOS weather centre, On Wednesday, the mercury rose to 32.7 degrees Celsius in Moscow, topping the record set in 1917 for that day by half a degree.
FOBOS stated that records were broken across the country from Russia’s Pacific coast to Siberia and regions closer to Europe.
While many Muscovites are finding relief in the city’s fountains and parks, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin urged residents to take precautions amid the heatwave.
And finally to New York’s Coney Island and the annual 4th of July hot dog eating contest, where competitive eaters gorged on dozens of hot dogs.
This year saw a new champion in the men’s category with Chicago’s Patrick Bertoletti chomping down on 58 hot dogs in 10 minutes to take home his first Mustard Belt.
Defending women’s champion Miki Sudo broke a record with 51 hot dogs in 10 minutes, once again making history at the contest.
The American spectacle held annually on Independence Day, began in 1980, when the winners of the first-ever competition tied with just nine hot dogs each.
Kim Siyoung, Arirang News.
Source : Arirang TV, https://www.arirang.com/news/view?id=272904
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