Police in Massachusetts say a member of the Kennedy family screamed incoherently and threw himself into a wall after he was confronted by police responding to complaints about a loud party and fireworks. A Barnstable police officer says the actions of both 52-year-old Matthew "Max" Kennedy and his daughter, 22-year-old Caroline Kennedy, incited the partygoers into "an angry mob" on Monday in Hyannis Port. The officer says people yelled "you don't know who you are messing with" as police arrested Matthew Kennedy. Matthew Kennedy pleaded not guilty to disturbing the peace charges at his arraignment yesterday. Caroline Kennedy will be arraigned on November 23.
The Kremlin says the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France have spoken in support of a new attempt to secure a lasting ceasefire for eastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin says in a statement that presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia, Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine and Emmanuel Macron of France and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke in a conference call today and welcomed a plan to try to ensure a lasting ceasefire timed to the beginning of the new northern school year.
The Trump Administration has cut nearly US$100 million in military and economic aid to Egypt and delayed almost US$200 million more in military financing to Egypt, pending human rights improvements and action to ease harsh restrictions on civic and other non-governmental groups. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had decided to withhold US$65.7 million in military assistance and US$30 million in economic aid to Egypt that has been on hold since fiscal 2014, the officials said.
Hong Kong is bracing for severe tropical storm Hato, with hundreds of flights and other transport services cancelled, and schools and most businesses in the financial hub expected to be closed for the better part of the day. The weather observatory issued its third-highest weather warning early in the morning and said Hato was expected to make landfall at around 100km to the west of Hong Kong tonight. The maximum sustained winds recorded were 77 km/h, with maximum gusts of 103km/h.
Moroccan authorities have arrested two people suspected of links to the alleged perpetrators of the van attack that killed 13 people in the Spanish city of Barcelona.
One of the men, a 28-year-old detained in the Nador close to the Spanish enclave of Melilla, lived in Barcelona and is suspected of links to Isis and of plotting to attack the Spanish Embassy in Rabat, state TV channel 2M reported. No direct link has been identified between the suspect and the cell behind the Barcelona attack. A second suspect was arrested in the town of Oujda, close to Morocco's border with Algeria, 2M reported. He was a resident of Ripoll, the small town where many members of the cell were living.
