Witnesses said the man shouted god is great in arabic during the attack near the citys famous opera house paris has been under higher security. Recent years after a string of deadly islamic extremist attacks police are investigating the attack as an act of terrorism the socalled Islamic State has described the attacker as one of its soldiers. To iraq now where voters in the country have voted in the first parliamentary election since the government declared victory over Islamic State militants turnout was low at less than forty five percent amid high tensions and high security the vote went off largely peacefully but at least three people were reportedly killed in a bomb attack just south of the oil rich city of kirkuk. Iraqi voters cast their ballots amid tight security but turnout was lower than expected partly because Islamic State militants had threatened attacks at polling places
a curfew on cars around Polling Stations had kept some voters away but the only reported violence was
by him you know and that letter was. very nice letter all would you like to see what was in that letter that would you like how much how much you know how much given that. it was a very interesting letter and at some point i maybe it may be appropriate and maybe i ll be able to give it to you maybe you ll be able to see it shortly afterwards however the president admitted that he hadn t actually read the letter yet. as trump and his family headed off for a weekend getaway at the official camp david presidential retreat he told reporters he had a little relaxation and a lot of work on as we came to gender perhaps that includes a little light reading. the w. washington bureau chief alexandra phenomena has more on what we can expect from this summit. the on again off again summit will take place however he tries to play down the expectations for what the meeting in singapore will yield saying that
and i cool little they re also getting their food apples and carrots delivered specially an ice cube helping make them the coolest pandas in all of china. minder of the top stories we re following for you socialist pedro sanchez has been sworn in as spain s new prime minister he took the oath of office before he became philippe this comes a day after he ousted conservative previous answer madi on a little boy in a no confidence vote. and u.s. president donald trump says a meeting with north korea s leader will take place on june twelfth in singapore as originally planned that announcement comes after a high level north korean envoy met with trump out the white house. don t forget you can always get the news on the go just download our hour from google play from the apple store that ll give you access to all the latest news from
right now we have north korea s. kim jong chill in new york city meeting with mike pompei o hashing out details of the potential summit we have negotiations going on in singapore and we have had american a north korean envoys meeting in north korea this week there s a flurry of diplomatic activity but it seems now that both the u.s. and north korea are really trying to make the wheels turn in order to get this meeting underway jason strother and seoul thank you you thank. let s get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world spanish m.p. s are debating whether or not to keep prime minister marianna hoyo in power a no confidence vote was called after the horse in service of party was found guilty fraud money laundering and other illegal financial schemes refused to step down he says that he was unaware of his party s misuse of funds italy s m.t.s.
a joke that people here do their what what s written on this papers taste on these papers and on this posters and they cannot they will not do it on the ground and change anything so the trust in the elections is very low the credibility of the elections is also low and the people tell me we don t trust him what s going on nothing is going to have the same faces will appear again jafar abdul karim in baghdad thank you very much. north korea says it will dismantle its nuclear test site later this month this is part of a previous pledge to halt its nuclear test program state media says underground tunnels will be collapsed and nuclear facilities removed adding that foreign journalists including americans will be invited to cover the event this follows u.s. president donald trump s confirmation of his meeting with north korean leader kim jong un which will be held on june twelfth in singapore. now and the other stories