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CanadaMurder suspects were
let through checkpoint
Sweden
Trump sends hostage
envoy to rapper’s trialUnited States
Body of 1930s gangster
likely to be exhumedThe hunt for the murder suspects
Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam
McLeod in Canada has taken a
frustrating turn, with offi cials
confi rming they were stopped at a
checkpoint but then let go.
The pair, who are suspected of
shooting dead a tourist couple,
Lucas Fowler, 23, from Australia ,
and American Chynna Deese, 24,
along with a Canadian botanist,
Leonard Dyck, 64, have been on
Donald Trump sent the US special
presidential envoy for hostage
aff airs , Robert O’Brien , to Sweden to
monitor court proceedings against
the American rapper A$AP Rocky,
according to a Swedish news agency.
O’Brien was seen on Tuesday at
Stockholm d istrict c ourt, where the
rapper – real name is Rakim Mayers- pleaded not guilty to assault.
A spokeswoman for the US embassy
told TT news agency O’Brien was in
Sweden “to look after the well-being
of American citizens ”.
Mayers is accused with two others
of beating 19-year-old Mustafa
Jafari in Stockholm on 30 June.
His detention prompted the US
The body of the 1930s gangster John
Dillinger is expected to be exhumed
next month at an Indianapolis
cemetery , more than 85 years after
he was killed by FBI agents.
Digging up the remains could
resolve conspiracy theories that the
man some considered a hero during
the Great Depression isn’t buried in
his marked grave. Among the tales
is that Dillinger’s family tricked the
FBI into shooting the wrong man.
But bringing up the body could
be a tough job. Dillinger’s father had
the casket reburied under a cap of
concrete and scrap iron topped by
four reinforced-concrete slabs to
stop grave robbers. AP▲ The US rapper A$AP Rocky, real
name Rakim Mayers, denies assaultthe run in northern Canada for two
weeks. Hundreds of Royal Canadian
Mounted police offi cers using
drones, helicopters and sniff er dogs
have been searching a remote part
of northern Manitoba for eight days
after sightings of the pair.
But it has emerged that McLeod,
19, and Schmegelsky, 18, from
Vancouver, were chased and
stopped by offi cers in Manitoba last
week after they drove through an
alcohol search checkpoint. Alcohol
is banned in the area.
When a search of the car did
not fi nd anything of concern, the
teenagers – who had not been
named as suspects at the time –
were allowed to continue driving.
They apparently then drove
60 miles west to Gillam, crashed
their Toyota Rav4 , set fi re to it
and disappeared. A A Ppresident to personally contact the
Swedish p rime m inister, Stefan
Lö fven, who refused to interfere in
a legal case, angering Trump.
Jafari and a friend got into an
argument with Mayers and one of
his bodyguards near a fast-food
restaurant where they had just
eaten. A social media campaign,
#JusticeForRocky, was created soon
after his arrest. Guardian staffDemocratic debate exposes rifts between
left and centre in race for the White House
Sabrina Siddiqui
Detroit
The progressive Democratic presiden-
tial candidates Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren faced fi erce chal-
lenges on Tuesday from moderate
rivals who contended the party was
lurching too far to the left to wrench
the White House from Donald Trump’s
grasp in 2020.
In the fi rst of two nights of debate
between Democratic candidates in
Detroit, Sanders and Warren teamed
up to defend their platforms on issues
such as universal healthcare and immi-
gration, which were swiftly contested
by the party’s centrists.
The former Maryland congressman
John Delaney, who has been strug-
gling to cut through in polling, came
out swinging by accusing Warren and
Sanders of promising “bad policies”
that, in his words, amounted to “free
everything and impossible promises
that will turn off independent voters
and get Trump re-elected”.
Warren countered by saying the
Democrats could not win the White
House with “small ideas and spineless-
ness”. When Delaney later called forDemocrats to concentrate on “kitchen
table” issues such as infrastructure,
Warren hit back: “I don’t understand
why anybody goes to all the trouble
of running to be the president of the
United States to talk about what we
really can’t do and shouldn’t fi ght for.”
Warren and Sanders were among
the fi rst 10 candidates to debate. The
second set of 10 candidates, which
includes the moderate former vice-
president Joe Biden – who is leading
the Democratic polls – and the Califor-
nia senator Kamala Harris, were due to
debate last night.
Trump made his feelings abouthis opponents clear yesterday with
a tweet claiming: “The people I saw
on stage last night, & you can add in
Sleepy Joe, Harris, & the rest, will lead
us into an economic sinkhole the likes
of which we have never seen before.
With me, only up!”
Warren and Sanders – both senators
and longtime friends – were fl anked
by moderates such as the Minnesota
senator Amy Klobuchar , the Ohio
congressman Tim Ryan , the former
Colorado governor John Hickenlooper
and the Montana governor, Steve Bull-
ock , all seeking to make a splash.
The rising stars Pete Buttigiegand Beto O’Rourke , both of whom
have positioned themselves as
next- generation candidates, found
themselves between the progressive
and centrist wings of the party.
Within moments, the discussion
was dominated by Medicare for all, the
universal healthcare proposal cham-
pioned by Sanders and embraced by
a number of Democratic 2020 candi-
dates. Bullock, appearing in his fi rst
debate, wasted little time in dismiss-
ing the plan as “wishlist economics”.
Delaney also piled in, likening
support for Medicare for all – which
would abandon the private insurance
market in favour of a taxpayer-funded
system that would cover all Amer-
icans – to “political suicide” and
characteri sing it as “the creep toward
socialism”.
In a standout moment, Sanders
grew visibly frustrated as Ryan
suggested Sanders did not know
what his plan would do. “I do know
it. I wrote the damn bill! ” the Vermont
senator emphatically replied.
Warren, a co-sponsor of Sanders’
bill, also hit back , stating: “We are the
Democrats. We are not about trying
to take away healthcare from anyone.
That’s what the Republicans are trying
to do.”
Sanders and Warren have been
the architects of sweeping changes
to address healthcare, taxes and
income inequality. Both senators are
prop onents of debt-free college tui-
tion and breaking up big banks. Warren
has also pushed for a wealth tax on the
ultra-rich.
With the threshold to qualify for the
third round of debates in September
expected to grow tighter, the Detroit
debates could be the last chance for
some candidates to make an impres-
sion before the American public.
Hickenlooper, Ryan, Bullock, Dela-
ney, and the self-help author Marianne
Williamson have yet to qualify for
September.▼ Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg,
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
greet each other at the Detroit debate
PHOTOGRAPH: LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS‘We are Democrats.
We are not about
trying to take
away healthcare
from anyone’Elizabeth Warren
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