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SECOND SHOOTING IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
2 DEAD, 4 INJURED, SUSPECT AT LARGE

Not even a week passed since the high-profile massacre at the Old National Bank where gunman Connor Sturgeon open fired where he previously worked for three years.  But now, a new attack, it it was within a crowd of hundreds.

In Chickasaw Park at approximately 9 p.m, it happened.  The police responded immediately and found two dead from gunshot wounds.  And four were transported by either personal vehicle or by EMS to the University of Louisville Hospital.

As of right now, we have no witnesses to this incident. We do know that hundreds of people were in the park at the time of this shooting. Hundreds of people were in the park at the time of the shooting when someone started shooting into the crowd, hitting at least six people. We are asking that anyone with information on this shooting please come forward.

But this and the shooting by Connor were not the only ones this week. Other shootings had occurred with more lives lost between the two.

ALABAMA MASS SHOOTING AT A SWEET 16 BIRTHDAY PARTY
FOUR DEAD, 28 INJURED, AND NO WORD ON SUBJECTS

Sergeant Jeremy Burkett of Alabama's Law Enforcement Agency confirmed that 28 individual were injured during the shooting, some in critical condition.   But worse, four were killed during the birthday event.  And Sergeant Burkett refused to answer if there was a subject or not.

Most of the victims were teenagers, while some were noted as parents of a few teen present.

COSTA RICA'S DRUG TRADE
BLAMED FOR HOMICIDE SPIKE

Costa Rica had logged over 600 homicides last year, Limon being the epicenter with five-times the national average.  Now, President Rodrigo Chaves scrambles for answers as to why this is, amidst all the public outcry .

Martín Arias, the deputy security minister and head of Costa Rica’s Coast Guard, said Limon’s violence stems from disputes over both the control of cocaine shipped to Europe and the marijuana sold locally.

In January, authorities dismantled a ring working to smuggle drugs through the container port. Cocaine has been secreted into walls of the steel containers and even packed among pineapple and yucca headed for Spain and Holland.

Foreign drug traffickers used to pay Costa Rican fishermen to bring gasoline to their smuggling boats.

The Limon port’s shipping business – both legal and illegal – has placed it at the center of violence.

“In Limon, there are four strong criminal groups competing for the drug market,” said Randall Zúñiga, director of Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department. These groups clash, and “generally the people who die are sellers or members of the criminal groups.”

But the violence has not been confined to Limon or to those involved in the drug trade.

EU WARNS HUNGARY & POLAND
OVER UKRAINIAN GRAIN BAN

WARSAW, April 16 (Reuters) - Unilateral action on trade by European Union member states is unacceptable, the bloc's executive said on Sunday, after Poland and Hungary announced bans on grain and other food imports from Ukraine to protect their local agricultural sectors.

After Russia's invasion blocked some Black Sea ports, large quantities of Ukrainian grain, which is cheaper than that produced in the European Union, ended up staying in Central European states due to logistical bottlenecks, hitting prices and sales for local farmers.

The issue has created a political problem for Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party in an election year as it has angered people in rural areas where support for PiS is usually high.

"We are aware of Poland and Hungary's announcements regarding the ban on imports of grain and other agricultural products from Ukraine," a spokesperson for the European Commission said in an emailed statement.

"In this context, it is important to underline that trade policy is of EU exclusive competence and, therefore, unilateral actions are not acceptable."

"In such challenging times, it is crucial to coordinate and align all decisions within the EU," the statement added.

Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller told state-run news agency PAP the government was in constant contact with the European Commission about the issue, and that the ban was possible due to a security clause.

Poland and Hungary have been embroiled in long-running conflicts with Brussels over issues including judicial independence, media freedoms and LGBT rights, and both have had funds withheld due to concerns over the rule of law.

Ukraine's farm minister Mykola Solsky talked to Hungarian counterpart Istvan Nagy on Sunday and underlined that unilateral decisions were unacceptable, the Ukrainian farm ministry said in a statement. The two agreed to talk again soon, it said.

The ministry said on Saturday that the Polish ban contradicted existing bilateral agreements on exports, and called for talks to settle the issue.