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China Daily | Updated: 2017-06-21 07:27

United States

Student released from DPRK dies

A university student held prisoner in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for 17 months died at a hospital on Monday, days after he was released from captivity in a coma, his family said. Otto Warmbier, 22, who was arrested in the DPRK for attempting to take a political slogan in a hotel where he stayed during his tour to the country, had been described by doctors caring for him last week as having extensive brain damage that left him in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness".

United Kingdom

London van attack driver 'acted alone'

The country's Security Minister Ben Wallace said on Tuesday that the suspect in the Finsbury Park attack was not known to the country's security services and it was believed he acted alone. The van driver plowed into Muslim worshippers after midnight on Monday near a mosque, leaving one dead and nine injured. The man who died at the scene was a father of six, media reported. Health authorities said seven people remain hospitalized.

Wealth gap widens over past decade

Income inequality in the United Kingdom has been rising in the past decade, the Resolution Foundation said in a new report. The think tank said just 10 percent of adults owns about half of the nation's wealth, and the top 1 percent owns 14 percent of the total. On the contrary, 15 percent of adults in Britain has neither a share of the nation's record $14.1 trillion of wealth, nor debts dubbed "negative wealth".

Australia

Northern whale migration starts

Tens of thousands of humpback whales have arrived off Western Australia's coast, as their annual migration to find warmer water during the cooler months gets underway. The 13,000 kilometer round-trip takes place around the end of May and early June, when the majestic creatures leave Antarctica and head north to Australia. Much to the delight of whale-watchers and tourism operators, the whales usually stay until late November, making it the longest whale-watching season in the world.

(China Daily 06/21/2017 page12)