BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi National Security Service (INSS) said on Tuesday that a security member was killed and seven others injured when a booby-trapped warehouse exploded in the country's southern province of Basra.
The killed security member was a photographer affiliated with the INSS, a statement by the agency said, noting that the explosion occurred when an INSS force raided a warehouse suspected of harboring illegal weapons, but it appeared to be booby-trapped. (Iraq-Explosion-Casualty)
- - - -
BRUSSELS -- Ministers from the European Union (EU) countries on Tuesday approved the creation of a 150-billion-euro (about 170.22 billion U.S. dollars) arms fund, the bloc's first large-scale defence investment program at EU level, the Council of the EU said in a press release.
The fund will be channelled through the new Security Action for Europe instrument, which offers competitively priced, long-maturity loans to member states that choose to invest in defence industrial production via joint procurement of priority capabilities, the Council said. (EU-arms fund)
- - - -
SEOUL -- South Korea's police banned former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, and Choi Sang-mok, former deputy prime minister for economic affairs, for alleged insurrection charges, multiple media outlets said on Tuesday.
Han and Choi have been under investigation as suspects of insurrection and prevented from leaving the country in the middle of this month. (South Korea-Insurrection Charge-Travel Ban)
- - - -
WASHINGTON -- A mass shooting occurred in a park in the U.S. city of Philadelphia on Monday night, killing at least two people, local WPVI-TV reported.
At least eight others were wounded in the gunfire in the Fairmount Park, reported the TV channel, which is affiliated with the ABC News. (U.S.-Philadelphia-Shooting) ■
