LONDON: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once again berated a British diver involved in the rescue of 12 children and their coach from a Thai cave as a “child rapist”, the media reported. In an email to a journalist, Musk launched the fresh tirade against Vernon Unsworth, 63, without providing any document to support his allegations, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. Unsworth was part of the international team that freed the 12 young footballers and their coach from the Tham Luang cave complex. IANS
Jon Kyl to take John McCain’s Senate seat
Washington: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has said he has appointed former Republican Senator Jon Kyl to fill the Senate seat vacated by Senator John McCain, who died last month. “There is no one in Arizona with the stature of Senator Jon Kyl,” Ducey said, with Kyl at his side. Kyl, 76, served from 1995 to 2013 in the US senate, where he worked alongside McCain. IANS
Mayor on Duterte’s ‘narco list’ killed in office
Manila: A Philippine mayor on President Rodrigo Duterte’s list of allegedly narcotics-linked officials was shot dead in his own office on Wednesday. Mariano Blanco, mayor of the southern town of Ronda, is the latest in a spate of local officials to be slain in recent months, some with and some without alleged links to the illegal drug trade. “Witnesses said four armed persons alighted from a white van and entered the municipal hall... The mayor was there as he was sleeping in his office,” AFP
‘Maiden’ set for sail again
London: Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (R), and Jordan’s Princess Haya bint al-Hussein (C) meets crew members as they view the newly refurbished yacht ‘Maiden’, in London. The yacht was used by the first all-woman crew to sail in Whitbread Round the World Race. AFP
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