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by Joseph Schmid Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — A powerful explosion destroyed a bakery in central Paris on Saturday morning, injuring several people and blowing out dozens of nearby windows after a suspected gas leak, police and AFP journalists. Around 200 firefighters were mobilised to battle the fire that broke out after the blast and rescue residents in neighbouring buildings, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told reporters at the scene. Police closed off streets […]
WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Poland said Friday it had arrested a Chinese businessman suspected of spying for China, with local media identifying him as a Huawei director. The announcement comes weeks after Canada arrested Huawei vice president Meng Wanzhou, who is accused of violating Iran sanctions. The Chinese telecommunications giant is also facing increased scrutiny over its alleged links to Chinese intelligence services. Countries like the United States, Australia and Japan have blocked Huawei from […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — Almost 640 flights were canceled in Germany Thursday as security staff went on strike at three airports, meaning disruption for around 100,000 passengers. The number of flights blocked was more than half the 1,050 scheduled for Duesseldorf, Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart. Duesseldorf — the country’s third-largest airport — said in a statement that 370 of Thursday’s 580 planned departures had to be canceled. News agency DPA reported that the walkout, […]
TOULOUSE, France (AFP) — Twenty-two people were injured, two seriously, when a fire swept through an apartment building in the southwestern French city of Toulouse, the fire service told AFP on Thursday. Part of the four-storey building collapsed and guests from a neighbouring hotel were also evacuated, said fire lieutenant-colonel Sylvain Gergaud. “The fire spread very quickly through the lift shift,” he said. Two firemen were among the casualties. The blaze had been brought under control […]
OSLO, Norway (AFP) — The wife of a Norwegian multi-millionaire missing for 10 weeks is believed to have been kidnapped and a large ransom has been demanded for her release, local media reported on Wednesday. Married to a businessman who made his fortune in real estate and the energy sector, 68-year-old Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik disappeared on October 31, the Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper said. A ransom demand for nine million euros ($10.3 million) in cryptocurrency […]
by Saska CVETKOVSKA Agence France Presse SKOPJE, Macedonia (AFP) — Macedonian lawmakers gather from Wednesday to vote on changing their country’s name to settle a decades-long dispute with Greece and open the way to NATO and EU membership. But the switch to “the Republic of North Macedonia” is an uphill task involving four constitutional amendments and the support of two thirds of the 120-member parliament. The Social Democrat-led ruling coalition does not itself have those […]
by Dario THUBURN Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest hub, suspended all departing flights for around an hour Tuesday following a drone sighting, just three weeks after a similar incident at Gatwick caused havoc. A spokeswoman told AFP at 1835 GMT that flights at the airport, which handles 213,668 passengers a day, had resumed following the interruption. The Metropolitan Police said they were called at around 1705 GMT […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Three skiers and two snowshoe hikers have died as heavy snow and avalanches hit Austria, isolating several areas of the mountainous country, authorities said Monday. Two German skiers lost their lives in avalanches in the western region of Vorarlberg on Sunday, and a Slovenian died in the region of Salzburg, rescue services said. The bodies of two missing snowshoe hikers were discovered Monday as snow caused chaos in parts of the […]
(Eagle News) — “The threat from international terrorism has grown over the last few years,” according to the World Counter Terror Congress which is set to hold its conference this March 2019. The world meeting set from March 5 to 9 in London noted that the devastating terror attacks in various parts of the world “have caused major loss of life, destruction of property and economic damage across the globe.” “As nations seek to […]
by Matthieu DEMEESTERE Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe’s first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town. This week, he will go on trial for four anti-Semitic murders during a shooting spree at Belgium’s Jewish Museum. […]
by Clément Zampa Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — A shadow creeps behind two visitors just inside the Jewish museum in Brussels. A man emerges, arm extended as he fires a pistol into their necks. The first bullet kills Emanuel Riva, the second, his wife Miriam, with the couple dropping to the floor in a ghoulish scene captured by the museum’s security cameras. Neither Israeli tourist sees the shooter coming as they are engrossed […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs is still checking whether Filipinos were among the people reported killed and injured in a recent train crash in Denmark. In a statement, the DFA said based on a report from Ambassador to Denmark Jocelyn Batoon-Garcia, Consul General Poul Krogh was checking with Danish authorities if any of the 12,000 members of the Filipino community was among the six killed or 16 injured in the incident that involved a commuter […]
