Protesters stage rally to mark 5th anniv. of Duggan's death

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• The Chicago Police Superintendent says officers who fatally shot 18-year-old black man Paul O’Neal on July 28, may have violated departmental policies. He also admitted to the lack of trust between police and the community. This followed the release of the fatal shooting video which has sparked protests against police brutality.
• Protesters have marched through north London to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of a black man named Mark Duggan in a police shooting that sparked riots in 2011. The demonstrators accused the police of racism and demanded justice for people who died at the hands of law enforcement officers.
• Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel says the first indications suggest a machete attack outside the main police station in the city of Charleroi is an act of terrorism. Two female police officers have been injured in the assault and rushed to the hospital. A third officer fatally shot the assailant.
• Turkey continues with its crackdown on suspected supporters of last month's failed coup as it arrests some 90 members of Special Forces. Some 70000 government employees including military personnel have been arrested or fired. Ankara accuses US-based opposition figure Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the attempted coup. Gulen denies the charges.
• The Syrian government forces have purged terrorists from a military center south of Aleppo killing a number of them. Meanwhile The Jabhat Fateh al-Sham terrorist group claims to have broken the army's siege of the city. A pro-Damascus media outlet and a London-based monitor deny the claim.
• Nearly two dozen victims of a chemical attack by US-backed militants in the Syrian city of Aleppo have been transferred to a local hospital. At least seven people were killed after a militant group known as Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki used poisonous gas against Salah ad-Din district.
• Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh unveil a governing council, tasked with running the country. The council includes 10 seats equally divided between the two sides. This comes as the UN-mediated peace talks in Kuwait between Yemen’s warring sides have been suspended for one month.
• Japan has marked 71 years since Hiroshima was destroyed by a US atomic bomb in 1945. The world’s first nuclear bombing left more than 140000 people dead. The attack was followed by another US atomic bombing of the port city of Nagasaki three days later, killing some 73000 people.

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