Chile's constitutional convention on Monday handed its proposed new constitution to President Gabriel Boric ahead of a planned September referendum on adopting the text.. He immediately signed a decree calling a referendum on September 4, where voting in the deeply polarized country of 19 million people will be obligatory.
On a sunny morning in Bucha, customers buy fresh cherries at a small market, a couple pushes a baby buggy and a teenager with piercings skateboards down the street.. Along Vokzalna Street, the long avenue that links Bucha to Irpin, numerous buildings have been destroyed or massively damaged -- houses, apartment blocks, stores and a shopping mall.
Rescuers warned Monday that hope of finding survivors was diminishing after an avalanche set off by the collapse of an Italian glacier during a heat wave killed at least six people.. On Monday, rescuers armed with thermal drones searched for body heat from potential survivors trapped in ice, though hope was rapidly dwindling.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday reshuffled his government in search of a fresh start for his second term, dogged by his failure to win a parliamentary majority last month.. - Short of majority - Macron beat far-right leader Marine Le Pen a second time in April's presidential run-off to win a new five-year term.
Danish police said Monday the suspect in a weekend shooting at a Copenhagen mall that left three dead, including two teenagers, was known to mental health services.. "Our suspect is also known among psychiatric services, beyond that I do not wish to comment," Copenhagen police chief Soren Thomassen told a press conference.
Twelve bodies have been found following a shipwreck in the South China Sea over the weekend that left more than two dozen crew members missing, Chinese authorities said Monday.. - 'Difficult and dangerous' - Typhoon Chaba formed in the central part of the South China Sea and made landfall in southern China's Guangdong province on Saturday.
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: - Eastern region falls - Ukrainian forces withdraw from the strategic eastern city of Lysychansk, handing Russia control of a large part of the industrial Donbas region that it has vowed to "liberate".. Lysychansk is the second Donbas city to fall in less than two weeks, after the neighbouring city of Severodonetsk.
Canadian-Chinese tycoon Xiao Jianhua is standing trial on Monday, Ottawa's embassy in Beijing said in a statement, after the businessman disappeared from a Hong Kong hotel in 2017.. Xiao, who is a Canadian citizen, disappeared from Hong Kong's Four Seasons hotel in January 2017, with local media reporting that he was snatched by mainland Chinese agents.
Rescuers used thermal drones Monday to search for possible survivors trapped under ice after an avalanche set off by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others.. But rescuers used drones equipped with thermal cameras to continue the search overnight and early Monday, Canazei mayor Giovanni Bernard told AFP. "It is difficult for the rescuers in a dangerous situation", he said.
Danish police said Monday that the suspect in a weekend shooting at a Copenhagen mall that left three dead, including two teenagers, was known to mental health services.. Police confirmed that the suspected shooter was present at the mall at the time of the shooting and is known to the police "but only peripherally".
