#Vancouver Police have confirmed that the suspect in Saturday's deadly ramming attack that killed 11 people in the city is the brother of a man who died in an unrelated killing last year.

Thirty-year-old Adam Kai-Ji Lo — who has been charged with eight counts of second-degree murder with more charges anticipated — is the brother of Alexander Lo, who was killed in January last year in Vancouver.

A fundraiser was set up by Adam Lo for his brother's funeral expenses, but it has since been removed from the GoFundMe crowdfunding platform.

Adam Lo wrote that his brother had been killed in a "senseless act of violence" and that despite their "disagreements," the death had hit him with "overwhelming force."

A second request for funding was set up by Adam Lo in September 2024, where he said his mother tried to take her own life after his brother's killing.

Dwight Kematch was arrested at the home where Alexander Lo's body was found, and he was charged with second-degree murder in November, but the case is the subject of a publication ban.

"I'm burdened with remorse for not spending more time with him," Adam Lo wrote in the online crowdfunding pitch to cover his brother's funeral expenses.

"I can't disclose all the details, but the painful reality is that he won't be returning, leaving my mother with an indescribable sorrow for a son she brought into this world, only to see him depart so suddenly," it said.

The later fundraising page for his mother said she had "immense bills to pay and has struggled for a long time due to high interest rates," while also having difficulty finding work.

Adam Lo said he found her unconscious in her bed, and she was taken to the hospital.

"I feared I had lost the only family member I have left," Lo wrote. "Her suspected overdose came as a shock, but I knew she was grieving the loss of my brother and struggling immensely with her finances."

Lo said he was seeking donations because he could "only feel confident in her well-being if she is confident in her ability to pay her bills and, ultimately, keep her home."

Kematch has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer did not return a message seeking comment.

Interim Vancouver Police Chief Steve Rai said on Sunday that Adam Lo had had numerous interactions with police and mental health workers.

Sgt. Steve Addison, who confirmed that Lo's brother had been killed last year, also told a news briefing on Monday that police in a neighbouring jurisdiction had contact with Lo on Friday, the day before the festival attack.

He said the interaction "was not criminal in nature and it didn’t rise to the level where it required mental health intervention."

#Israeli strikes on #Gaza kill at least 27 Palestinians

#Trump says #Zelensky ready to abandon claims to #Crimea
"Nobody brought it up for 12 years, and now they bring it up", US leader added.

US President Donald Trump believes that Vladimir Zelensky is ready to abandon claims to Crimea.

"I think so," Trump told reporters at Morristown Airport in New Jersey, when asked if he thought Zelensky was ready to give up Crimea.

"Nobody brought it up for 12 years, and now they bring it up. So I told him, you can maybe go back to [44th US President Barack] Obama. Ask them why they gave it up. They gave it up without a shot being fired, by the way," Trump added.

US strikes on Yemen kill at least eight people — TV
According to the Al Masirah, three residential buildings came under attack; women and children are among those killed.

At least eight people were killed in #US strikes on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, the Al Masirah TV channel, controlled by Houthi rebels from the Ansar Allah movement, reported.

According to the broadcaster, three residential buildings came under attack; women and children are among those killed. The TV channel did not specify the number of people injured in the strikes.

Following the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip in 2023, the Houthis warned that they would strike Israeli territory and prevent ships associated with Israel from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. Houthi attacks halted after a ceasefire was declared in Gaza in mid-January but after the ceasefire was broken in early March, the rebels announced a resumption of attacks on Israeli ships in the Red Sea, and also started trying to conduct missile attacks on targets in Israel.

On March 15, the US started to carry out massive strikes on Houthi facilities in Yemen based on an order from President Donald Trump. The US Central Command said that the goal was to defend American interests and restore freedom of navigation.

A massive explosion at an #Iranian port possibly linked to missile fuel kills 25, injures some 800.

The death toll in a massive explosion at a port in southern #Iran rose Sunday to at least 40 people.

Provincial Governor Mohammad Ashouri gave the new death toll, Iranian state television reported.

Some 1,000 others were injured in the blast at Shahid Rajaei port near Bandar Abbas on Saturday.

The port is purportedly linked to an earlier delivery of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant. A military spokesman denied the propellant had been imported there, without offering a cause.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

Iran’s president visited those injured Sunday in a huge explosion that rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports, a facility purportedly linked to an earlier delivery of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant.

The visit by President Masoud Pezeshkian came as the toll from Saturday’s blast at the Shahid Rajaei port outside of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province rose to 28 killed and about 1,000 others injured.

While Iran’s military sought to deny the delivery of ammonium perchlorate from China, new videos emerged showing an apocalyptic scene at the still-smoldering port. A crater that appeared meters deep sat surrounded by burning smoke so dangerous that authorities closed schools and businesses in the area.

Containers appeared smashed or thrown as if discarded toys, while the burned carcasses of trucks and cars sat around the site.

“We have to find out why it happened,” Pezeshkian said during a meeting with officials aired by Iranian state television.

Authorities described the fire as being under control, saying emergency workers hoped that it would be fully extinguished later Sunday. Overnight, helicopters and heavy cargo aircraft flew repeated sorties over the burning port, dumping seawater on the site.

Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran’s Red Crescent society offered the death toll and number of injured in a statement carried by an Iranian government website, saying that only 190 of the injured remained hospitalized on Sunday. The provincial governor declared three days of mourning.

Private security firm Ambrey says the port received missile fuel chemical in March. It was part of a shipment of ammonium perchlorate from China by two vessels to Iran, first reported in January by the Financial Times. The chemical used to make solid propellant for rockets was going to be used to replenish Iran’s missile stocks, which had been depleted by its direct attacks on Israel during the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Ship-tracking data analyzed by The Associated Press put one of the vessels believed to be carrying the chemical in the vicinity in March, as Ambrey said.

“The fire was reportedly the result of improper handling of a shipment of solid fuel intended for use in Iranian ballistic missiles,” Ambrey said.

In a first reaction on Sunday, Iranian Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Reza Talaeinik denied that missile fuel had been imported through the port.

“No sort of imported and exporting consignment for fuel or military application was (or) is in the site of the port,” he told state television by telephone. He called foreign reports on the missile fuel baseless -- but offered no explanation for what material detonated with such incredible force at the site. Talaeinik promised authorities would offer more information later.

It’s unclear why Iran wouldn’t have moved the chemicals from the port, particularly after the Beirut port blast in 2020. That explosion, caused by the ignition of hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, killed more than 200 people and injured more than 6,000 others. However, Israel did target Iranian missile sites where Tehran uses industrial mixers to create solid fuel -- meaning potentially that it had no place to process the chemical.

Social media footage of the explosion on Saturday at Shahid Rajaei saw reddish-hued smoke rising from the fire just before the detonation. That suggests a chemical compound being involved in the blast, like in the Beirut explosion.

Meanwhile on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin deployed several emergency aircraft to Bandar Abbas to provide assistance, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported.

Pakistani troops kill 54 militants attempting to sneak into #Pakistan from Afghanistan

Suspect in #killing of a Russian general claims he was paid by #Ukraine, #Russia says

#Greenland, #Denmark affirm alliance amid #Trump’s interest in U.S. control

#Trump and #Zelensky met briefly in the hush of St Peter's basilica before Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday in their first encounter since a noisy White House clash and the #US president later cast doubt on whether #Putin wants a peace deal.

Death toll in blast in Iranian port climbs to eight, over 750 injured
"The rescue and law enforcement agencies are on site and we hope that the situation will be under complete control in a matter of hours," Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni said

Eight people were killed and 750 injured in an explosion at the Shahid Rajaei port in southern Iran, while efforts are underway to localize the blaze, Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni said.

"The main task right now is to rescue those injured and completely extinguish the fire," he said in a broadcast by the IRIB TV channel. "At this moment, about 750 people sustained injuries and eight have died," the official added.

"The rescue and law enforcement agencies are on site and we hope that the situation will be under complete control in a matter of hours," the official said.

A major explosion rocked Iran’s Shahid Rajaei port in the Persian Gulf on Saturday morning. The official cause of the blast has not yet been named.