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Wednesday 8 July 2020

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers watch
as a bus that fell into a lake is recovered in the Xixiu District of
Anshun, southwestern China's Guizhou Province, Tuesday, July
7, 2020.
Associated Press
Bus in China plunges into

a lake, killing 21 Mourners carry the flag-draped coffin of Hisham al-Hashimi during his funeral, in the Zeyouneh
area of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July, 7, 2020.
Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — Authorities was unclear.
say 21 people were killed The Anshun city govern- Outspoken Iraqis fear rogue
Tuesday when a bus ran ment in Guizhou province
through a roadside fence said in a statement that 15
and plunged into a lake people were rescued and groups after analyst killed
in a southwestern Chinese sent to hospitals with inju-
city. ries. The bus was hauled
Surveillance video posted out of Hongshan Lake in a By SAMYA KULLAB close friends that he had careful."
by state broadcaster CCTV large rescue operation. BAGHDAD (AP) — The kill- received threats from mili- Al-Hashimi's assassination
on its social media account The passengers included ing of a prominent security tia groups. The slaying also was a message meant to
show the bus suddenly high school students taking analyst who had received coincides with a spate of silence critics, said Ruba Ali
race across six lanes of traf- nationwide university en- threats from Iran-backed rocket attacks targeting al-Hassani, an academic
fic and through the fence. trance exams that began militias has struck fear in U.S. interests that has been researcher at York Univer-
The cause of the accident Tuesday.q the hearts of outspoken blamed on Iran-backed sity's Osgoode Hall Law
Iraqis concerned that they, armed groups. School in Toronto.
too, could be targeted by Al-Kadhimi vowed to pur- "Analysts are being tar-
armed groups. sue al-Hashimi's killers, say- geted not because of who
The death of Hisham al- ing "Iraq would not sleep" they are but because of
Hashimi also highlighted until they were brought to what they represent and
the limits of Prime Minister justice, during his weekly what their voices repre-
Mustafa al-Kadhimi's pow- Cabinet meeting on Tues- sent," she said. Al-Hassani
er to reign in armed groups day. co-manages the Iraqi Net-
acting outside the state's But critical voices in Iraq, work for Social Media, a
authority, experts and Iraqi especially those supporting network of bloggers that
officials said Tuesday. anti-government protests tracks social media at the
Iraqi mourners and rela- and people outspoken height of the Iraq protests.
tives of al-Hashimi car- against militia groups, are Al-Hassani said Iraqi activ-
ried his body in a funeral contemplating changing ists in Baghdad and the
procession hours after he their online presence in the country's south, where
was gunned down Mon- aftermath of al-Hashimi's mass protests were held in
Officials from Greece's Ministry of Migration Affairs and the Inter-
national Organization for Migration escort 25 unaccompanied day night outside his home death. October, are being more
refugee children at Athens International Airport before they in Baghdad's Zeyouneh Mariam, 26, an activist who careful with their online
board a plane to Lisbon, Portugal on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. neighborhood. His casket, participated in anti-gov- presence.
Associated Press draped in the Iraqi flag, ernment protests in Bagh- "They are saying, we have
was taken to his family dad's Tahrir Square that to watch our words now,
Greece: Migrant children home before being driven erupted in October, said we can't say everything on-

to the burial site in the holy she has stopped posting on line," she said.
head to Portugal after city of Najaf. social media for the time Al-Hashimi had received
being.
threats from Islamic State
Al-Hashimi, a leading ex-
appeal to EU pert on the Islamic State "What has shocked us is that group militants. But close
group and other militant they killed someone with friends said he had been
organizations, was a regu- Hisham's connections and growing concerned about
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — countries. lar fixture on Iraqi television influence. Activists across threats coming from Iran-
Greek authorities say 25 Nearly 75,000 migrants and and his expertise was often Iraq have been killed with aligned groups after being
unaccompanied migrant refugees, about a third of sought by government of- impunity for years, and a vocal proponent of the
children are traveling from them children, traveled ficials, journalists and re- especially during the pro- protest movement in Octo-
Athens to Portugal, where from Turkey to Greece searchers. tests," Mariam said, asking ber. At the time, top lead-
they will be given shelter last year, most crossing to No one immediately that her last name not be ers of the Popular Mobiliza-
as part of a relocation pro- Greek islands, adding strain claimed responsibility for used for fear of retribution. tion Forces said they could
gram worked out among on the country's reception the killing, which comes "With his death we are in not help him ward off the
several European Union system. q weeks after he confided to disbelief, and we are being threats. q