A GUNMAN has been arrested after killing at least four people and wounding several others in the Australian city of Darwin.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the incident was not terrorism related.
He told reporters: “This is a terrible act of violence that has already, I’m advised, taken the lives of four people.”
A 45-year-old man was in custody following the shooting, Northern Territory Police Duty Superintendent Lee Morgan told Guardian Australia.
“At this stage, we’ve got reports of four deceased and a number of other people who have been shot,” Morgan said.
A man fired a pump-action shotgun at the Palms Hotel in the Darwin suburb of Woolner in the late afternoon, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Police said the suspect was described as wearing a high-visibility shirt and driving a white dual-cab pick-up truck.
MEANWHILE, progressive groups are expressing “deep disappointment” over House Democrats’ unwillingness to start impeachment proceedings against US president Donald Trump.
The groups said in a letter that voters gave Democrats control of the House “because they wanted aggressive oversight of the Trump administration”. They are calling on speaker Nancy Pelosi to take action.
They said: “The Trump era will be one that evokes the question – what did you do? We urge you to use your power to lead and to stop asking us to wait.”
Pelosi has been reluctant to launch impeachment proceedings as she believes it requires more public support.
IN Sudan, the ruling military authorities are planning for a snap election within months.
The move comes a day after a pro-democracy sit-in was violently overrun by the military, leaving at least 35 people dead, according to protest organisers.
The move to hold a vote so soon cancels all its agreements with protest leaders, who for months had been camped outside the military headquarters in Khartoum as the two sides negotiated over who would run the country after long-time strongman Omar al-Bashir was ousted in April.
FINALLY, workers in France have brought the world’s biggest Nutella factory to a near-standstill in a showdown over salary negotiations.
Tensions have been mounting at the site in Villers-Ecalles in Normandy, where activists from the Workers’ Force union have been barring trucks from entering or leaving the factory for a week.
The plant produces 600,000 jars of the chocolate and hazelnut spread every day – a quarter of the world’s production of the product.
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