OHIO (CBS News) – One person was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting in Cincinnati, U.S. State of Ohio, on Friday night, authorities said.  In a news briefing, Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said the incident occurred a little before 9:30 p.m. local time on a street in the city’s West End neighborhood, located near downtown. Theetge said officers arrived to find one person, a male, dead at the scene. Five others were rushed to local hospitals. Their conditions were not confirmed. Some of the victims were juveniles, Theetge disclosed. The deceased victim was not immediately identified. “This is absolutely unacceptable in our city, unacceptable, that on a Friday night, six people were shot in one incident,” the police chief said.

 

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ISLAMABAD (AP) – A number of militants have briefly stormed an air base in central Pakistan, damaging aircraft, a day after gunmen killed more than a dozen soldiers in the country’s restive southwest. On Saturday morning, at least nine militants attacked the Pakistan Air Force Training Airbase Mianwali, in the central-eastern province of Punjab, damaging three “non-operational” aircraft, the Pakistani army said in a statement. It added that security forces killed all militants, three of them before entering the base while the rest had been cornered before the clearance operation began. “No damage has been done to any of the Pakistan Air Force’s functional operational assets, while only some damage was done to three already phased-out non-operational aircraft during the attack,” it said. In an earlier statement, the military had said that “a fuel bowser” had also been damaged in the attack. “Due to the swift and effective response by the troops, (the attack) has been foiled and thwarted, ensuring the safety and security of personnel and assets,” the statement further noted. The Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan (TJP), a newly-emerged militant group that is an affiliate of the home-grown Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) movement, has claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement to the media.

 

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MADRID (Reuters) – More than 500 migrants were rescued in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain’s Canary Islands, the Spanish coastguard said on Saturday, as the number of people arriving on the archipelago so far this year neared an all-time record posted in 2006. The coastguard said they had also found two dead bodies among those rescued from four boats in the waters off El Hierro, the smallest and most westerly of the Canary Islands. Two other people died later in hospital, said the Spanish Civil Guard, which also took part in the rescue in which women and children were among those saved. The number of arrivals has recently jumped as milder weather and calmer seas since September have made it more feasible to attempt the still perilous crossing from Africa. Spain’s Interior Ministry said on Thursday that a total of 30,705 undocumented migrants had reached the Canary Islands in the first 10 months of this year, representing a 111% increase from the same period in 2022.

 

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday his country, the Philippines and the United States were cooperating to ‘protect the freedom’ of the South China Sea as he committed to help enhance Manila’s security capabilities. “In the South China Sea, trilateral cooperation to protect the freedom of the sea is under way,” Kishida, on an official visit, said in an address before the Philippine congress in the capital Manila, reported. Kishida and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr agreed on Friday to start negotiations on a reciprocal troop access deal to strengthen military cooperation as China becomes increasingly assertive in the region. The Philippines and Japan, two of the United States’ closest Asian allies, have taken a strong line against what they see as ‘aggressive’ behavior by Chinese vessels amid decades-old disputes over maritime sovereignty. China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea, including parts of the exclusive economic zones of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. 

 

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AYOLAS, Paraguay (AFP) – Three people have died and thousands have had to leave their homes due to heavy rains and flooding in southern South America this week, according to officials who pointed to the El Nino weather phenomenon. All three deaths -- of two elderly people aged 70 and 84 and an 11-year-old girl -- were reported due to collapsed homes in two towns in Paraguay, which has been battered by downpours accompanied by tornadoes and rainstorms. “We are doing our best to reach families in need. We have reports of major damage in about 40 locations,” the head of the national emergency office Arsenio Zarate said Friday. Some 30,000 people in Paraguay have been affected by storms, he added, with more than 600 families evacuated in Ayolas on the banks of the Parana River. “We can say that El Nino has arrived in Paraguay and will probably remain until the first three months of 2024,” meteorologist Eduardo Mingo told AFP. El Nino is typically associated with warming ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.