Berlin Pride ramming suspect killed by police after daylong manhunt

This is the morning edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Tuesday, the twenty-eighth of July, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

A vehicle rammed into a crowd near Berlin's Pride festival on Saturday night, killing one person and injuring at least sixteen. Police said the driver was known to them and had links to Islamist circles, and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt identified the chief suspect as twenty-one-year-old Abdul Ballout. German media reported that Ballout was a supporter of Islam. Authorities said he had tried to join I S I S and had been released from detention in May. Chancellor Friedrich Merz responded by calling for tighter monitoring and criticizing Germany's terrorism laws. After a daylong manhunt, police shot and killed Ballout on Sunday in the Spandau district when he reportedly rushed at officers with a knife. Officials later termed the assault an Islamist terrorist attack. On Sunday, mourners laid flowers and candles near the Brandenburg Gate as crews dismantled stages and cleaned up the festival site.

In entertainment news, singer-songwriter Carly Simon revealed that she has Parkinson's disease and has been treated for basal cell carcinoma. In a statement, Simon said she has been learning how to live with Parkinson's disease and that surgery for skin cancer on her face led her to withdraw from public view. She said music has rescued her and vowed to keep singing despite the diagnoses.

In the United States, Bryan Kohberger, who is serving multiple life sentences for the twenty twenty-two murders of four University of Idaho students, filed a petition for post-conviction relief on Monday seeking to withdraw his guilty plea and win a new trial. In a prison interview, Kohberger claimed he pleaded guilty because of bad legal advice, false promises and wrong information.

Meanwhile, in Canada, shots were fired early Monday near the U S consulate in Toronto, the second such incident at the diplomatic compound this year. Toronto police said officers heard a firearm discharged and saw a white sedan fleeing the scene; they engaged in a high-speed chase but failed to arrest a suspect, who remains at large. No injuries were reported and no suspects have been identified. Police said it was too early to say whether the shooting was linked to a similar attack in March. Three people were arrested in June after another comparable incident.

At the United Nations, the United States walked out of a U N Security Council meeting on Monday as France's ambassador began to speak, protesting French remarks that compared the U S to authoritarian states. The dispute followed a vote in which the United States joined North Korea and Russia in opposing the extension of the U N high commissioner for human rights.

In business news, Cracker Barrel announced that chief executive Julie Masino is stepping down and will be replaced on Aug. ten by David Deno, most recently the C E O of Bloomin' Brands. Masino faced a backlash last year after the company unveiled a modernized logo and tried to shed its old-timey image, with critics on social media calling the Tennessee-based chain woke and soulless.

Also in the U.S., the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow an executive order restricting mail-in voting to take effect. The emergency appeal comes after a federal appeals court upheld a ruling blocking the order in nearly half the country ahead of November's midterm elections.

In British politics, Andy Burnham has appointed former education secretary Bridget Phillipson as Labour Party chair, a role that places her at the forefront of the party's campaign to win the next general election. She will work closely with Lucy Powell, having lost out to her in the deputy leadership contest.

In Michigan, Representative Haley Stevens and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed held their final debate before Michigan's Democratic Senate primary next week, clashing over outside spending and electability while showcasing wildly different ideological stances and political styles.

In sports-related news, Elijah Bieniemy, twenty-seven, the son of Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Eric Bieniemy, was arrested and charged in Virginia with shooting his mother, Mia Bieniemy, authorities said. She is stable after suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Eric Bieniemy was at the team's camp in Missouri on Sunday.

On Capitol Hill, Senator Rand Paul released diary entries kept by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-nineteen pandemic. The notes include Fauci's reflections on his sudden celebrity and invitations to A-list events, as well as expressions of uncertainty about the origins of the virus. Fauci is scheduled to appear before a Senate committee on Wednesday to discuss the origins of the coronavirus.

In Massachusetts, the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the mother accused of murdering her three young children, began Monday with testimony from her ex-husband Patrick Clancy. He described her deteriorating mental health and has publicly urged empathy for the real Lindsay.

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