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El Paso residents tell Trump to stay away after shooting
Veteran female Indian politician Swaraj is dead: Modi
Shushma Swaraj was India's foreign minister from 2014 to 2019. Photo: Prakash Singh, AFP
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Members of the Soto family embrace beside a makeshift memorial after the shooting that left 22 people dead at the Cielo Vista Mall WalMart in El Paso [Mark Ralston/ AFP] by Gilles Clarenne with Daniel Woolls in Washington
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L PASO | AFP | Tuesday 8/6/2019 - Residents in majority-Hispanic El Paso told US President Donald Trump Tuesday to stay away amid fury over his antiimmigration rhetoric as he struggles to unite the country in the wake of back-to-back mass shootings that killed 31 people. Trump is scheduled to stop off in the Texan border city where 22 died in a weekend gun massacre on Wednesday, after first visiting Dayton, Ohio, where another gunman shot nine dead. The president called on Americans in a nationwide address Monday to condemn bigotry -- but community leaders say his words rang hollow set against a longstanding refusal to call out white supremacy and a history of tweets widely condemned as racist. "This president, who helped create the hatred that made Saturday's tragedy possible, should not come to El Paso," tweeted Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic presidential hopeful and former congressman who grew up in the city. "We do not need more division. We need to heal. He has no place here."
Before opening fire at a Walmart superstore in El Paso, the 21-year-old suspected gunman, who is white and
from the Dallas area, reportedly postContinued on Page 10
EW DELHI, India | AFP | Tuesday 8/6/2019 - India's former foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, one of her country's best-known female politicians, has died, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Wednesday. Swaraj had been beset by poor health but served as foreign minister for five years until Modi replaced her with S. Jaishankar during a cabinet shuffle in May. "A glorious chapter in Indian politics comes to an end," Modi wrote on Twitter. "India grieves the demise of a re-
markable leader who devoted her life to public service and bettering lives of the poor. Sushma Swaraj Ji was one of her kind, who was a source of inspiration", he said, calling her death "a personal loss". The Press Trust of India said Swaraj, 67, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) late Tuesday after a heart attack. In 2016 she underwent a kidney transplant. Swaraj was the most senior female leader of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
India hails 'historic' Kashmir rule as Pakistan, China slam move by Jalees Andrabi
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EW DELHI, India | AFP | Tuesday 8/6/2019 - India's Hindu nationalist government on Tuesday hailed "historic" legislation to bring Kashmir under its direct control but Pakistan and China challenged the divisive move, sending tensions soaring between the nuclear neighbours. New Delhi stripped Kashmir of its seven-decade-long autonomous status via a presidential decree on Monday, hours after imposing a massive security lockdown in the state to quell any unrest. "Together we are, together we shall rise and together we will fulfill the dreams of 130 crore (ten million) Indians," Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted late Tuesday after parliament approved the move to turn India's only Muslim-majority state Continued on Page 8
Deserted streets in Srinagar after India's Kashmir move | AFP
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