Five people were killed in a shootout on Saturday in Ascension and Livingston, near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police said.

The suspect, a 21-year-old Dakota Theriot, is charged with shooting dead his parents, Elizabeth and Keith Theriot, both 50, in the town of Gonzalez, the sheriff of Ascension Municipality said. who has not yet been able to determine the reason for this criminal act.

The victims were alive when the police arrived at their homes. The couple was able to identify their son as the shooter, the sheriff Bobby Webre told the press.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) stated that Canadian and American fighters had been mobilized to escort two Russian bombers flying near the North American coast.

NORAD reported that two F-22 fighter jets and two CF-18s had identified two Russian strategic Tu-160 Blackjack bombers entering an area patrolled by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) on Saturday morning.

No conflicts were reported between Russian, American and Canadian planes.

NORAD added that it uses radar, satellites and fighter jets to patrol the skies and monitor aircraft entering US or Canadian airspace.

"NORAD's priority is to defend Canada and the United States. Our ability to protect our nations begins with the detection, location and identification of aircraft of interest approaching US and Canadian airspace, "said General Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy, Commander of NORAD, in a statement.

The world No. 1 Novak Djokovic has offered a seventh record coronation at the Australian Open, her fifteenth Grand Slam total, by overriding Rafael Nadal (No.2) 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in just 2 pm Sunday in Melbourne.

After Wimbledon and the US Open last season, Djokovic (31) wins his third Grand Slam title in a row. Nadal's counter, however, remains blocked at seventeen major trophies, at three lengths of the record held by Roger Federer. Never before has the Spaniard lost in three sets in the Grand Slam final.

With a fifteenth crown, Djokovic overtook the American Pete Sampras and moved alone to the third rank of the most successful Grand Slam players.

The Serb also becomes the first to repeat three times a series of at least three consecutive triumphs in major tournaments (already 3 in a row between 2011 and 2012, 4 in a row between 2015 and 2016).

The path traveled by Djokovic is colossal. Twelve months ago, he was about to undergo right elbow surgery in the wake of his elimination in the round of 16 final of the Australian Open (by Chung), and had the mood at half-mast, between crisis of confidence and of motivation.

But since he regained his physical fullness at the start of last summer, shortly after returning to coach all his success, the Slovak Marian Vajda, he has been irresistible on special occasions, in London, New York, then Melbourne.

On the Rod Laver Arena Sunday, even Nadal could only survive. Broken entry, the 32-year-old Spaniard scored just one point after three games. He never managed to set up a fight with Djokovic. Smothered by the unfailing regularity of his opponent - only nine direct faults - and K.O. facing the Serbian wall, guilty of more numerous mistakes than usual.

His only breakthrough ball of the match did not arrive until after 1:45 of play.

The Mallorquin had nevertheless impressed throughout the Australian fortnight, carried by a remodeled service. He had even, for the first time in Melbourne, rallied to the final without losing a set.

But he continues to stumble on Djokovic on hard ground: he has now lost his last eight games against the Serb on this surface. Its latest success dates back more than five years to the 2013 US Open.

At least 18 people died Sunday in a double bombing against Jolo Cathedral, on an island in the southern Philippines that remains a bastion of the Islamist organization Abu Sayyaf.

This attack came two days after the announcement of the massive approval, in a referendum last Monday, of the creation in the south of the archipelago Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, in the framework of the peace process with the Muslim insurrection.

The first bomb exploded during Mass inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, located in the center of Jolo, the largest city on the island of the same name, told AFP. Lieutenant-Colonel Gerry Besana, Regional Spokesman for the Army. A second explosion occurred outside, on the parking lot, when the soldiers arrived.

Five soldiers, a member of the coastguard and 12 civilians were killed in the double bombing, which also left 83 injured, Besana said.

Regional police chief Graciano Mijares reported 20 dead and 81 wounded. The second bomb was in the trunk of a motorcycle parked outside the building.

The authorities said the attack could be carried out by the Islamist group Abu Sayyaf.

"When you talk about terrorism in Sulu province, the first suspect is still Abu Sayyaf but we can not rule out the possibility of other officials," Besana said.

The island of Jolo is indeed one of the main bastions of Abu Sayyaf. Specialized in villainous kidnappings, this organization is also accused of the worst attacks in the archipelago, especially that against a ferry that had killed more than 100 people in 2004.

Abu Sayyaf is an extremist offshoot of the Muslim separatist insurgency. It was created in the 1990s thanks to the financing of a family member of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Jolo is part of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region whose creation has just been voted on in a referendum.

The establishment of this area in a predominantly Muslim territory - while the archipelago is predominantly Catholic - aims to restore peace after decades of conflict that has left tens of thousands dead.

"Peace must prevail"

Muslims took up arms in the 1970s to claim the autonomy or independence of the southern Philippines, which they regard as their ancestral land. This insurrection killed 150,000 people.

The main rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), signed in 2014 a peace agreement with the government providing for the granting of autonomy to the Muslim minority in parts of the large island of Mindanao and the islands of the extreme southwest.

According to this agreement, 2.8 million inhabitants of this region were called last Monday to vote and 1.7 million voted in favor of the creation of the new autonomous region named Bangsamoro, some 254,600 having voted against, the electoral commission said on Friday.

This process, which began in the 1990s, does not include Islamist organizations like Abu Sayyaf as the Milf fights alongside government forces.

The province of Sulu, to which Jolo belongs, has globally voted against the creation of the new region.

"Peace must prevail over war," said National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon, who blamed the attack on "extremist criminals".

"We will not let them spoil the people's desire for peace," he said.

An alert was issued Sunday in Brumadinho, in southeastern Brazil, facing the risk of an impending rupture of a second mine dam, after the disaster that left at least 37 dead and 300 missing Friday.

On Saturday, the last official record reported 34 bodies found in the tide of mud that had passed the dam, but firefighters announced Sunday that three more had been counted.

The search for survivors, who should have resumed in the morning after being interrupted Saturday night, were suspended after the alert given because of the risk of rupture of another dam.

"This is a real risk, which is why our teams have stopped the search and are focused solely on evacuating the people who live in the areas that could be affected," local fire chief Pedro told reporters. Aihara.

"Once the alarm was sounded, firefighters started evacuating the villages closest to the dam," he said.

At 5:30 am (2:30 am ET), the sirens sounded in this town of 39,000 inhabitants of Minas Gerais, suddenly awakening a population already traumatized by the tragedy and, for the most part, the anxiety of being no news of relatives for two days.

Emergency evacuation

"Attention, general evacuation of the area, seek to reach the highest places of the city. Emergency evacuation, "launched speakers.

"I was at home, the siren woke me up and I saw the rescuers open our door and ask us to evacuate," told 59-year-old José Maria Silva.

"We saw a lot of people running, desperate, and hearing loudspeakers say that another dam might break," said Sagner Miranda, a 29-year-old plumber. "Those who did not have a car left on foot, with backpacks, carrying everything they could. There were children, elderly people, "he added.

The mining company Vale said in a statement that it had activated the alarms after "detecting an increase in water levels in dam VI", a structure that is part of the Corrego do Feijao mine, whose dam I broke up. Friday.

The company noted that Dam VI "does not contain mine waste", but about 3 to 4 million cubic meters of water.

Throughout the day on Saturday, the funeral ballet of the helicopters was incessant, to try to spot any sign of life among the remains of buildings or vehicles.

The rescuers found a bus for employees completely engulfed, with several bodies without life inside, which could not be extracted and have not yet been officially counted.

Israeli help

President Jair Bolsonaro, who flew over the area on Saturday, announced Sunday on Twitter that an Israeli army delegation would arrive there in the day to help the local authorities, with 140 men and 16 tons of equipment.

A spokesman for the firefighters said they would bring devices equipped with sonars capable of locating deep bodies, which will be used from Monday.

The state of Minas Gerais had already been bereaved in 2015 by the break-up of another mining dam near Mariana, 120 km from Brumadinho, which left 19 dead and caused an unprecedented environmental disaster in Brazil.

Hundreds of square kilometers had been submerged by a mud tsunami, which had crossed two Brazilian states and spread 650 kilometers to the Atlantic Ocean across the Rio Doce River, one of the most important from Brazil.

For Luiz Jardim Wanderley, a mining expert at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), there may be more such disasters in the future. "It's entirely possible that this will happen again. [...] About 10% of dams do not have their stability assured, or information on their actual state is missing. There are still quite a number of roadblocks that continue to operate without the proper security conditions in Minas Gerais, "he said.