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by Lehaz Ali Agence France-Presse PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – A suicide bombing at an election rally killed at least 13 people, including a politician, in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said, amid concerns about security ahead of national polls later this month. The attack targeted a campaign event organised in the city of Peshawar by the Awami National Party, which has been targeted by Islamist militants in the past over its vocal opposition to extremist […]
MAE SAI, Thailand (AFP) – The final five members of a young football team were rescued from a flooded Thai cave on Tuesday after spending 18 harrowing days trapped deep inside, completing an astonishing against-the-odds rescue mission that captivated the world. Elite foreign divers and Thai Navy SEALs extracted the final batch of four boys, plus the 25-year-old coach, on Tuesday afternoon via a treacherous escape route that required them to squeeze through narrow, water-filled […]
MAE SAI, Thailand (AFP) — Three more people were rescued from a flooded Thai cave on Tuesday, officials said, bringing to 11 the number saved and raising hopes all members of the young football team who became trapped 18 days ago would survive. Two more were still inside the cave but authorities were confident of getting them out by Tuesday evening through a claustrophobic network of tunnels that in some places were completely filled with […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP)–WhatsApp took out full-page advertisements in Indian newspapers Tuesday offering “easy tips” to identify fact from fiction after a slew of recent murders spurred by hoaxes shared on its platform. The Facebook-owned messaging service has been under immense pressure to curb the spread of misinformation in India after the lynching of more than 20 people accused of child abduction in the last two months. Most recently a mob surrounded and killed five men […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) – Schools and offices in Taiwan will close Tuesday and flights have been cancelled as Typhoon Maria churns towards Taiwan bringing torrential rains and powerful winds. Maria was 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of the northeastern coastal town of Yilan with gusts of up to 190 kilometres an hour as of 10 am local time (0200 GMT), the weather bureau said. Its impact was expected to be the strongest from late Tuesday […]
MAE SAI, Thailand (AFP) – The first eight boys rescued from a Thai cave are in good mental and physical health and are asking for chocolate, officials said Tuesday, although two were on antibiotics after being tested for pneumonia. “Everyone is in a good mental state,” Jesada Chokedamrongsuk, permanent secretary of the public health ministry, told reporters at Chiang Rai hospital. “None of the eight boys has fever today,” he added in the clearest update […]
by Hiroshi Hiyama Agence France-Presse KURASHIKI, Japan (AFP) — Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 156 lives in Japan’s worst weather-related disaster for decades. The record downpours that began last week have stopped and receding flood waters have laid bare the destruction that has cut a swathe through the west of the country. In the city […]
by Athens Zaw Zaw Agence France-Presse YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) – Two Reuters reporters accused of breaking Myanmar’s draconian secrecy law during their reporting of a Rohingya massacre must face trial, a judge said Monday, in a ruling swiftly decried as a “black day” for press freedom in the country. Myanmar nationals Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were arrested in December and accused of possessing leaked sensitive material linked to security operations in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has canceled a four-country foreign trip as the death toll from flooding and landslides caused by record rains hit 100, local media said Monday. Abe had been expected to visit Belgium, France, Saudi Arabia and Egypt from Wednesday. His office declined to comment on the reports. Abe reportedly told the deputy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that he had “no choice but to cancel” […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The toll in days of devastating rains in Japan has risen to 100, the government’s top spokesman said Monday, as search-and-rescue operations continued. Yoshihide Suga said 87 people had been confirmed dead from the severe floods, with another 13 found with no vital signs, adding that more than a dozen people were still missing. © Agence France-Presse
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AFP) — Rescue workers, police and troops in Japan battle to reach people feared trapped by devastating flooding and landslides after days of record rainfall killed at least 75 people. https://youtu.be/_VmIUTXywrA
by Hiroshi Hiyama Agence France-Presse Desperate relatives braced for bad news Monday as rescuers dug through landslides in the wake of severe floods that have killed 75 people and left swathes of central and western Japan under water. As floods receded, emergency workers were able to reach previously cut-off places where authorities fear they could find more bodies in the wreckage of homes devastated by rivers of mud and debris. “I have asked my family […]
