While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, June 22
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A gunman was taken into custody after a shooting at a grocery store in Fordyce, a town of 3,200 people, south of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Three people killed, 10 wounded in US shooting
A shooter opened fire at an Arkansas supermarket on June 21, killing three civilians and wounding 10 other people, including two police officers, Arkansas State Police said.
The suspect was also wounded in a shootout with police, Arkansas State Police director Mike Hagar told reporters.
The shooting occurred at the Mad Butcher grocery in Fordyce, a town of 3,200 people around 100km south of Little Rock.
“Unfortunately, we can confirm that 11 innocent civilians were shot, and three of those are deceased. Two law enforcement officers were injured in the exchange of gunfire. The suspect was also shot and taken into custody,” Mr Hagar said.
Barcelona aims to become Airbnb-free zone by 2029
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Barcelona, one of Europe’s most visited cities, said on June 21 it aims to ban apartment rentals to tourists by 2029 to ease the housing shortage in Spain’s second largest city.
The licences for the 10,101 apartments currently approved as short-term rentals which are available on platforms such as Airbnb and Homeaway will not be renewed when they expire in November 2028, Barcelona’s leftist mayor, Mr Jaume Collboni, told a news conference.
Cities like Berlin, Paris and Barcelona say home-sharing websites for tourists deprive locals of apartments for long-term rent and push up prices for homes remaining on the market.
Nasa faces $100,000 claim after space debris
An American family is claiming more than US$80,000 (S$108,000) from Nasa, after a small piece of debris fell from space and smashed through the roof of their Florida home, a law firm said June 21.
The problem of space trash has risen in tandem with increased spatial traffic, and Nasa’s response could set a precedent for how future claims are handled, law firm Cranfill Sumner said in a statement.
On March 8, the object weighing just 700g hit Alejandro Otero’s home in Naples, Florida, making a hole in the roof.
Ukraine says Global South nation could host next peace summit
Ukraine believes a second summit to consider Kyiv’s proposals for peace with Russia could be hosted by a country in the Global South, a senior official was quoted as saying by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on June 21.
More than 90 countries attended the first summit in Switzerland last week as Ukraine seeks broad support for its plan to end the war, which began nearly 28 months ago with a full-scale Russian invasion.
“We have several countries (offering to host), and I can say with a high degree of probability that such a summit could take place in one of the countries of the Global South,” presidential aide Ihor Zhovkva was cited as saying by Interfax-Ukraine.
Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting staff
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A Swiss court handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family on June 21 for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion.
The Hindujas – who were not present in court – were acquitted of human trafficking, but convicted on other charges in a stunning verdict for the family, whose fortune is estimated at £37 billion (S$63 billion).
Prakash Hinduja and his wife Kamal Hinduja each got four years and six months, while their son Ajay and his wife Namrata received four-year terms, the presiding judge in Geneva ruled.
