Tory lead cut to single digits
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○ Voting Intention: Conservatives 44%, Labour 35% (18-19 May)
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Manchester Arena terror attack kills 19
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○ Manchester Arena: 19 dead after explosion at Ariana Grande concert – latest updates
[Updates] More below the fold …
[Update-1] Morning death toll rises to 22 as scores are wounded …
Death toll from Manchester blast rises to 22, police say attack was carried out by one man | CNBC |
G M Police said the explosion took place outside the arena, which is near the Manchester Victoria transit station, as the concert ended at about 10:35 p.m. local time (5:35 p.m. ET), catching people as they exited.
Multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials briefed by British authorities told NBC News that forensic evidence at the scene — including a body found at the blast site — indicated a suicide attack. British and U.S. law enforcement officials said they believed they had tentatively identified the bomber.
A representative of Ariana Grande said the singer, who has millions of young fans around the world, was not hurt. Likewise, Bianca Landrieu, the Boston hiphop star known as Bia, who also performed, tweeted: “Guys we are okay!!!”
In a statement, Scooter Braun, Grande’s manager, thanked “Manchester’s first responders, who rushed towards danger to help save lives.”
“We ask all of you to hold the victims, their families and all those affected in your hearts and prayers,” he said.
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#ManchesterArena – as parents and their teenage kids became separated after the concert, the people of Manchester offered their homes, taxi rides were done free of charge andinner city hotels opened their doors to set up a place to reunite kids with their parents.
As old as the words resonating in biblical history: violence begets violence; carnage begets carnage.
So apprentice prez Trump a few days ago appeases the dark princes of Sunni Wahhabism of the KSA, masters of spreading their message of terror across the globe, deliverance of the terrorists of 9/11, the instigators of terror acts across Africa, the Middle East, South-East Asia, the Indonesian archipel and the southern islands of the Philippines.
Blaming the Islamic state of Iran to please the head choppers of Riyadh, their signature IEDs by suicide vests. Another decade of terror ahead of us. Libya has become such a nice place to invest, thanking HRC for being so Strong Together. Another Iron Lady, PM Theresa May with her slogan “Forward Together” ditching care for the needy.
US as the world’s economic and military power gone astray in their expansion of capitalism, destroying nations and millions of lives since WWII.
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