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By Laura CHUNG SYDNEY, March 8, 2024 (AFP) – A “mass bleaching event” is unfolding on Australia’s famed Great Barrier Reef, authorities said Friday, as warming seas threaten the spectacular home to thousands of marine species. Often dubbed the “world’s largest living structure”, the Great Barrier Reef is a 2,300 kilometre (1,400 mile) expanse of tropical corals that house a stunning array of biodiversity. But repeated mass bleaching events have threatened to rob the tourist […]
NEW YORK, March 8, 2024 (AFP) – Media magnate Rupert Murdoch is not giving up on love — even at age 92. Murdoch announced Thursday that he plans to wed his girlfriend, Elena Zhukova, in June, The New York Times reported. Murdoch has been married four times before. His roller-coaster personal life is often fodder for the tabloid newspaper industry that he helped create on three continents. Last year, Murdoch announced his engagement to dental […]
By Danny KEMP WASHINGTON, March 7, 2024 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden will use his State of the Union address Thursday to attack election rival Donald Trump for plotting “revenge and retribution” while offering skeptical voters his own vision of an American comeback. In one of the most important speeches of his long political career, the 81-year-old Democrat will try to ease concerns about his age by painting himself as the only alternative to […]
By Katell Abiven with Luna Lin BEIJING, March 7, 2024 (AFP) – China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi lashed out against the United States and praised his country’s partnership with Russia on Thursday, in a wide-ranging press conference where he called the war in Gaza a “disgrace for civilisation”. Wang hit out at what he called efforts by Washington “to suppress China”, telling reporters that “the desire to heap blame under any pretext has reached an […]
Two Filipino crew members were among those killed in a missile attack by Yemen’s Huthi rebels on a ship in the Gulf of Aden, the Philippine government said Thursday. Those killed in the attack on Wednesday appear to be first deaths resulting from Huthi attacks on merchant vessels transiting the key Red Sea trade route. “With great sadness, the Department of Migrant Workers confirms the deaths of two Filipino seafarers in the most recent attack […]
(AFP) — Republican former UN ambassador Nikki Haley suspended her White House campaign Wednesday, declining to endorse former president Donald Trump but calling on him to earn the support of moderates and independents who backed her in the primary. “It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him, and I hope he does that,” Haley said in a televised address […]
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (AFP) – A missile fired by Yemen’s Huthi rebels hit a bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, with the crew reporting at least two dead and six wounded, a US official said. The missile caused “significant damage” to the Barbados-flagged, Liberian-owned M/V True Confidence, the official said, adding that its “crew reports at least two fatalities and six injured crewmembers and have abandoned the ship.” It was the […]
By Frankie Taggart with Romain Fonsegrives in Huntington Beach, California and Moises Avila in Houston, Texas WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (AFP) – Donald Trump tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination with big wins in the “Super Tuesday” primaries, setting up an all-but-certain rematch with President Joe Biden in November. Fifteen states — including California and Texas — were staging nominating contests on the biggest day of the 2024 race so far, with both […]
By Issam Ahmed with AFP bureaus WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (AFP) – Children have begun starving to death in Gaza, where the United Nations has warned a famine is “almost inevitable.” Here’s what to know about the hunger crisis engulfing the war-torn Palestinian territory. – Emaciated children – At least 15 children have died from starvation and dehydration in a single hospital, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Media including AFP have […]
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (AFP) – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took back his spot as the world’s richest man on Monday, dethroning Elon Musk on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bezos’ net worth stands at $200 billion, according to the tracker, surpassing the Tesla chief’s $198 billion. Musk, who also heads X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX, has seen his riches fall by more than $30 billion as Tesla’s share price has dropped 25 percent in recent […]
By Frankie Taggart with Romain Fonsegrives in Huntington Beach, California and Moises Avila in Houston, Texas WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (AFP) – Polls began closing Tuesday on the biggest day of the year for US presidential primaries, with Donald Trump expected to cement his hold on the Republican nomination and set up a rematch with President Joe Biden in November. “Super Tuesday” decides Republican and Democratic primaries in the giant states of California and Texas, […]
PARIS, March 5, 2024 (AFP) – Police in France have detained three teenagers who were allegedly in contact with four people arrested in Belgium over the weekend on suspicions they were planning a jihadist attack, a source close to the case said Tuesday. The three minors, aged 15 to 17, are not thought to be implicated directly in what was considered a looming attack on a Brussels concert hall, but allegedly have espoused extremist Islamist […]
