THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Police detained more than 50 people Sunday for taking part in a demonstration in central Amsterdam that had been outlawed because of violence targeting fans of an Israeli soccer club.
Mayor Femke Halsema banned all demonstrations over the weekend in the aftermath of the grim scenes of youths on scooters and on foot attacking Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters Thursday and Friday in what was widely condemned as a violent outburst of antisemitism in the Dutch capital.
Sunday afternoon, the municipality, with Amsterdam police and public prosecutor’s office, extended the ban on demonstrations until Thursday morning.
In France, Paris police said Sunday that 4,000 officers and 1,600 stadium staff will be deployed for a France-Israel soccer match Thursday to ensure security in and around the stadium and on public transit.
Organizers of the protest went to court Sunday morning seeking an injunction to allow the demonstration, but a judge upheld the ban.
Police launched a large-scale investigation Friday after gangs of youths conducted what Halsema called “hit and run” attacks on fans apparently inspired by calls on social media to target Jewish people.
Tuskegee shooting: A shooting early Sunday at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and 16 injured, 12 hit by gunfire.
The slain victim, an 18-year-old man, was not a university student, but some of the injured were.
One arrest was announced hours later. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery was taken into custody while leaving the campus shooting and had been found with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device. The agency’s statement said Myrick faces a federal charge of possession of a machine gun.
The shooting happened as the historically Black university’s 100th Homecoming Week was winding down. The university, which has about 3,000 students, announced that all classes Monday have been canceled.
Haitian PM sacked: A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti signed a decree Sunday firing interim Prime Minister Garry Conille and replacing him with Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a businessman who was considered for the job.
The decree, set to be published Monday, was provided to The Associated Press by a government source. It marks even more turmoil in a rocky transition process for Haiti, which hasn’t held democratic elections in years — mostly because of soaring levels of gang violence.
Fils-Aimé, who studied at Boston University, is the former president of Haiti’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry; in 2015, he lost a campaign for Senate.
Conille, a longtime civil servant who has worked with the United Nations, served as prime minister for only six months.
The transitional council was established in April, tasked with choosing Haiti’s next prime minister and Cabinet with the hope that it would help quell turmoil in Haiti. But the council has been plagued with politics and infighting.
South China Sea claim: China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move likely to increase tensions regarding overlapping territorial claims.
The Foreign Ministry posted online geographic coordinates Sunday for the baselines around Scarborough Shoal. A nation’s territorial waters and exclusive economic zone are typically defined as the distance from the baselines.
China and the Philippines claim Scarborough Shoal and other outcroppings in the South China Sea. China seized the shoal, which is west of the main Philippine island of Luzon, in 2012 and has since restricted access to Filipino fishermen there. A 2016 ruling by an international arbitration court found that most Chinese claims in the South China Sea were invalid, but Beijing refuses to abide by it.
China’s move came two days after Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed two laws demarcating the government’s claims in the disputed waters.
China stakes claim to almost the entirety of the South China Sea. It has a series of disputes with several Southeast Asian nations, including the Philippines and Vietnam, over territory in the waters, part of a key shipping route.