Washington Mayor Gray told reporters they are still notifying families

He added that a total of eight people were injured. Three of that total were shot, including the policeman shot three times in the leg. Another five injuries were less serious, ranging from stress and chest pain to head contusions. 

Police said residents can travel through the city freely again, as there has been no evidence of a second shooter. 

At least one of the victims was a Washington DC resident and no active-duty military have been identified as killed or wounded. 

The FBI has determined that Alexis had "legitimate access" to the Navy Yard.

Gray also anticipated that traffic patterns will returns to normal throughout the DC metro area on Tuesday.

Senator Dianne Feinstein in a statement about the Navy Yard shooting

Dianne Feinstein said in a statement Monday that the Navy Yard shooting is just further evidence that Congress is "skirting its responsibility" to make automatic weapons illegal for criminals to purchase.

“This is one more event to add to the litany of massacres that occur when a deranged person or grievance killer is able to obtain multiple weapons — including a military-style assault rifle — and kill many people in a short amount of time. When will enough be enough?”

Stricken Costa Concordia ship set upright

Engineers in Italy have succeeded in setting the cruise ship Costa Concordia upright, 20 months after it ran aground off the island of Giglio.

They said that the unprecedented salvage effort "reached degree zero (vertical), which was our target".

In the operation that took all of Monday and most of the night, they used cables and metal boxes filled with water to roll the ship onto a platform.

The Costa Concordia capsized in January 2012, killing 32 people.

The bodies of two of the victims of the disaster, by the island of Giglio, have never been found. There are hopes that they may be located during the operation.

source bbc

Nicaragua presses Colombia with new lawsuit in border dispute

Nicaragua filed a new lawsuit against Colombia with the International Court of Justice on Monday, claiming territory that includes lucrative offshore oil fields and fishing waters in the Caribbean, the government said in a statement.

source reuters.com

Putin: Russia to reopen Soviet-era Arctic military base

Russia is reopening a Soviet-era military base in the Arctic, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, part of a drive to make the northern coast a global shipping route and secure the region's vast energy resources.

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Sudan president seeks U.S. visa for U.N. visit

The United States condemned on Monday the president of Sudan's application for a U.S. visa to attend a U.N. meeting next week, saying he should face charges of war crimes and genocide at the International Criminal Court.

source reuters.com

Six Chinese officials stand trial for torture in landmark case

Six Communist Party officials will stand trial in China on Tuesday on charges of torturing a man to death during an internal investigation in a case that has exposed the secret workings of the party's judicial system.

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Washington Navy Yard shooting news

The Washington Navy Yard, where an armed gunman killed 12 people Monday after reportedly gaining entry with an ID badge, has a history of faulty surveillance. Sources told McClatchy newspapers that Building 197 in particular has poor entrance controls, areas cameras are unable to view, insufficient lighting, a faulty alarm system, and other problems.

James Atkinson, a former military intelligence officer who is now the chief of Granite Island Group, a Massachusetts surveillance firm, said his company found a number of issues during a recent inspection.

Granite Island Group held a “controlled penetration” test that revealed a sensor was not working, in part because screws from a hardware store were in place were more expensive screws were necessary.

“We found not only that people opened it up, but there were traces that somebody had placed a device inside that was recording data, so somebody could hoax the unit and claim to be a person they were not,” Atkinson told McClatchy. 

Dodging snipers in Darayya

Snipers are the biggest threat in the rebel-controlled areas, where places to hide are plentiful and underground tunnels and holes in the walls are used for covert movement. Measures as simple as curtains hiding soldiers from sniper sight are occasionally enough to protect them. But often they rely on speed and luck to cross dangerous spots.

Despite the dangers and the two-and-a-half years that the conflict has raged, morale seems high in the army, Finoshina reports.

“I'm honored to defend my country, defend the Syrian people,” Abdel Ghafour Salloum, one of the soldiers, said. “Even if USA attack us with it aircrafts and tanks and everything, we will make our land their cemetery.”

source reuters.com