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Several dead after double shootings in Rotterdam  

 

Several people have died after shootings in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, the police said according to Reuters. How many deaths are involved is still unclear. 

 

Large parts of the city were cordoned off by police after a man dressed in military fatigues opened fire in a classroom at a university hospital, wounding two. Shortly after the shots, a fire broke out, AP writes.

   

After the incident, a man was seen fleeing on a motorcycle.  

 

Parallel to this, a shooting occurred at a residence. There, too, a conflagration broke out after the shots.  

 

A man is arrested. 

 

Tajani and Baerbock Tobias Schwarz / AP  

 

The flight to Europe  

Italy: Charities are like 'magnets' for migration 

 

Italy is criticizing Mediterranean charities, saying their work is leading to increased migration to Europe, Reuters reports. 

 

- They cannot continue to act as magnets for unregulated migration, says the country's foreign minister Antonio Tajani.  

 

The statement comes in connection with a meeting between Tajani and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, who responded by drawing a lance for the organizations.  

 

- They work to prevent deaths in the Mediterranean because the common European sea rescue Mare Nostrum no longer exists, she says. 

 

Mare Nostrum was an organization run by Italy with the aim of rescuing migrants. The organization saved over 100,000 lives in the Mediterranean before it was shut down in 2014.

 

Li Shangfu on August 15th. Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP 

China's foreign policy  

Minister of Defense missing - the ministry keeps quiet  

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has not been seen in public since he gave a speech on August 29, and his ministry would not comment on the disappearance, AP writes. 

- We do not know the situation you are talking about, says a spokesperson at the ministry at a press conference.  

Li is the second Chinese minister to suddenly disappear from public view this year. Foreign Minister Qin Gang did the same earlier this year before he was fired.  

It is not unusual for politicians, civil servants and other high-ranking Chinese to suddenly disappear, writes the news agency. This summer, the US ambassador to Japan compared the situation to Agatha Christie's detective story "And so it was just one", where the main characters disappear one by one.