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U.S. NEWSSaturday 6 August 2016

UK police charge 19-year-old with London stabbings

JILL LAWLESS Associated London, was charged with Police officers arrived mo- streets to bolster public London’s Tooting area,
Press the murder of 64-year-old ments later and used a stun confidence after a summer where Bulhan lives with his
LONDON (AP) — British po- Darlene Horton, and five gun to subdue Bulhan. of attacks elsewhere in Eu- mother and siblings, said
lice on Friday charged a counts of attempted mur- Police initially considered rope. But within hours of Bul- they were shocked to learn
19-year-old Somali-Norwe- der. Horton, who was visiting the stabbings a potential han’s arrest police said they he had been accused of
gian man with carrying out London with her husband, terrorist attack. had found no evidence of the crime. Neighbor Parmjit
a stabbing rampage in Lon- a Florida State University The rampage came just radicalization or links to ter- Singh Bhamra described a
don’s Russell Square that professor, was stabbed to days after police warned rorism. Bulhan, who moved “quiet, academic boy who
killed an American woman death by a knifeman in Londoners to be vigilant, from Norway to Britain as was a bit of a loner” who
and injured five others. a busy tourist area near the and hours after the force a child, is due to appear liked soccer, basketball
London’s Metropolitan Po- British Museum on Wednes- said it was putting more in a London court on Sat- and music.q
lice said Zakaria Bulhan, of day evening. armed officers on the urday. Neighbors in south

Tens of thousands call for Russian PM’s dismissalÂ

the teacher at a youth fo- dential election. The swap
was resented by many Rus-
rum north of Moscow. sians and has been cited
as one of the underlying
Teaching, Medvedev said, reasons for the massive
anti-government protests in
is “a calling. If one wants Moscow in 2011 and 2012.
Medvedev’s approval rat-
to make money, there are ings have been consistently
lower than Putin’s. Analysts
lots of other places to do it say an unpopular prime
minister in charge of the
easier and quicker.” economy has deflected
blame for falling living stan-
According to change.org, dards from Putin himself.
Medvedev during his time
where the online petition in office introduced a law
which made it obligatory
appears, the demand that for the government to con-
sider any petition which at-
President Vladimir Putin tracts more than 100,000
signatories on a special
sack Medvedev had at- government-run website.
There was no such peti-
tracted more than 160,000 tion calling for Medvedev’s
ouster on this website on
signatures by Friday af- Friday, and there have
been no publicized cases
ternoon. The petition said of an online petition lead-
ing to a change in Russian
someone who tells “teach- legislation.q

ers to make money on the

side” should not lead the

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, left, meets with Vladimir Bulavin, newly appointed head cabinet. Medvedev was
(Alexander Astafyev/Sputnik via AP) Russia’s president between
of the Federal Customs Service in Moscow, Russia.

2008 and 2012 and was de-

scribed as a place-holder

NATALIYA VASILYEVA ed more than a hundred ing to make a fortune and for Putin who was not eli-

Associated Press thousand signatures. When that teachers could always gible for a third consecu-

MOSCOW (AP) — A peti- asked by a teacher from do odd jobs to supplement tive term in office when

tion calling on Russia’s pres- the impoverished Dages- their income. “I’m positive his second term expired in

ident to sack Prime Minister tan region why teachers that a young, energetic 2008. Putin was in the prime

Dmitry Medvedev, whose are paid half as much as teacher can get his pay minister’s seat those four

comments about teachers’ police officers, Medvedev that he’s entitled to as well years before he and Med-

pay sparked outrage ear- retorted that teaching is as make some money on vedev announced a swap

lier this week, has attract- not a job for those seek- the side,” Medvedev told in 2011, ahead of the presi-

UK Black Lives Matter protesters block Heathrow airport roadÂ

JILL LAWLESS the killings of black people enforcement, structural Photos showed police gers missing flights because
Associated Press by American police — was inequalities and the every- moving a group of people of the protest.
LONDON (AP) — Activists needed “in Britain and all day indignity of street rac- attached together lying In other protests, a small
linked to the U.S.-based over the world.” ism.” across the road beside a group of demonstrators in
group Black Lives Mat- U.K. Black Lives Matter said London’s Metropolitan Po- banner saying “this is a cri- the central England city of
ter blocked a road Friday in a statement it was hold- lice said officers arrested sis.” Nottingham disrupted pub-
leading to London’s Heath- ing a “shutdown” of roads 10 people blocking a road Police said one lane of the lic transport by lying down
row Airport and held pro- in London and other cities leading from a main high- road was open but traf- on tram tracks, and police
tests in other British cities. to “mourn those who have way to Heathrow on Friday fic was backed up getting removed protesters from a
Organizer Joshua Virasami died in custody and to pro- morning, including six who into one of the world’s busi- road near Birmingham Air-
told the BBC that the move- test the ongoing racist vio- were “locked” to one an- est airports. Heathrow said port, 100 miles (160 kilome-
ment — founded to protest lence of the police, border other. it was not aware of passen- ters) north of London. q