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Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 8, 2018 – Newbury Park, California A motorcade on the 101 freeway of local law enforcement officers escort the hearse carrying fallen Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus. Helps was killed after entering the scene of a mass shooting during college night at a Thousand Oaks nightclub. The shooter David Long (28) killed 12 people. Photo Credit © Gene Blevins via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 7-8, 2018 Thousand Oaks, California People comfort each other outside the Borderline Bar and Grill where a gunman killed 12 people in Thousand Oaks, California. Ventura County sheriff’s spokesman says gunman is dead inside the bar. Photo Credit © Ringo Chiu via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 8, 2018 Newbury Park, California. Hundreds of local law enforcement, firefighters and residents line up on freeway over passes to pay their respects to fallen Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus, who died after entering the scene of a mass shooting during college night at a Thousand Oaks nightclub. The shooter David Long (28) killed 13 people. Photo Credit © Gene Blevins via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting Hundreds of local law enforcement, firefighters and residents line up on freeway over passes to pay their respects to fallen Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus, who died after entering the scene of a mass shooting during college night at a Thousand Oaks nightclub on Wednesday night Nov 8, 2018. The shooter David Long, 28-year-old is the shooter and among the 13 dead. Photo Credit © Gene Blevins via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 7-8, 2018 A law enforcement officer guards inside the Borderline Bar and Grill where a gunman injured 11 people in Thousand Oaks, California. Ventura County sheriff’s spokesman says gunman is dead inside the bar. Photo Credit © Ringo Chiu via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 8-7, Thousand Oaks, CA Law enforcement officers guard the road leading to the Borderline Bar and Grill where a gunman injured 11 people in Thousand Oaks, California. Ventura County sheriff’s spokesman says gunman is dead inside the bar. Photo Credit © Ringo Chiu via #ZUMAPress
November 7, 2018. When tragedy struck the Borderline Bar and Grill on Wednesday ZUMA Wire Service award winning photographers RINGO CHIU and GENE BLEVINS were dispatched on an assignment for ZUMA Wire Service.
The number of people facing starvation in Yemen could rise to nearly 12 million as conflict intensifies around the port of Hodeidah, a vital aid delivery link, according to the World Food Program. A collapsing currency and deteriorating economic situation in the Middle East’s poorest country are also aggravating the situation. 18 million people in Yemen already do not know where their next meal is coming from and eight million of those are ‘considered on the brink of famine.’ Yemenis are starving because of war. No natural disaster is responsible. No amount of humanitarian aid can solve the underlying problem. Without an immediate, significant course change, portions of the country, under the watch of the UN Security Council, will likely tip into famine. UNICEF reports that 460,000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. Avoiding famine, if this is still possible, requires the Saudi Arabia-led coalition, supporting the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi against Houthi rebels and fighters aligned with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, to halt what promises to be a bloody battle for Yemen’s most important port, Hodeida. Yemenis need a ceasefire and a durable political settlement to have a chance at rebuilding the shattered economy. By numbers, Yemen is suffering from the largest food crisis in the world. According to the UN, an estimated seventeen million persons, 60 per cent of the population and three million more than were so afflicted at the start of the year, are food insecure and require urgent humanitarian assistance to save lives. Seven of the country’s 22 governorates are at a phase four emergency food insecurity level, one step away from phase five: famine.
“Another big week. Among the publications I am in Germany‘s Journalist, which is the industry magazine. They ran a photo of mine taken during a protest against the Polizeiaufgabengesetz (PAG Police Assignment Laws) which were hotly contested in numerous demonstrations that drew tens of thousands. Critics and journalist groups maintain the laws are a threat to democracy and freedom of press. The laws were ultimately passed using the CSU’s absolute majority in the Bavarian Landtag. The journalist groups discussed the implications the laws have for us” – SB. 
