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ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to the United States next week to meet Donald Trump, the Turkish presidency said Wednesday, amid heightened tensions between the two countries. In a telephone conversation, “the two leaders reconfirmed that they will meet in Washington on Wednesday, November 13, on President Trump’s invitation,” the Turkish presidency said. Erdogan had threatened to cancel his visit due to disputes over the Syrian conflict and the US […]
by Julien Besset in Montreal, David Esnault in Abidjan, Armel Baily in Ouagadougou OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) — An ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso killed 37 people on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in nearly five years of jihadist violence in the West African country. The impoverished and politically fragile Sahel country has been struggling to quell a rising jihadist revolt that has claimed hundreds of lives since […]
by Tuwaedaniya MERINGING with Thanaporn PROMYAMYAI in Bangkok Agence France Presse YALA, Thailand (AFP) — At least fifteen people were gunned down in an ambush by suspected Muslim militants in Thailand’s violence-wracked south, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, one of the bloodiest days in the 15-year insurgency. Thailand’s three southernmost provinces have been in the grip of a conflict that has killed more than 7,000 people, as Malay-Muslim militants fight for more autonomy […]
by Jérôme RIVET Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron declared on Wednesday that the Paris climate pact was “irreversible”, showing a united front after Washington formally withdrew from the accord this week. The joint declaration came at the end of Macron’s second visit to China, which started on Monday in Shanghai and included talks on trade and the Iranian nuclear issue. The French leader […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — Sudan’s first-ever satellite for conducting research in military, economic and space technology has been launched by China, the northeast African country’s ruling body said Tuesday. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who heads Sudan’s sovereign council, announced the launch of the satellite at a meeting of his top security officials held in Khartoum. China’s state news agency, Xinhua, reported that the satellite was launched on Sunday from north China’s Shanxi Province. “The satellite […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has warned Filipinos against fake visa processing services directed at “irregular immigrants.” In an advisory, the Philippine embassy in Seoul said the fake services, which are usually advertised on Facebook, purport to give assistance to Filipinos who wish to acquire a valid visa to work in Korea. The services are supposed to come for free or for a “small attorney’s fee.” “Please note that there is no […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish forces in northern Syria have detained a sister of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group who was killed in a US raid, a senior Turkish official said Tuesday. “Turkey has captured Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s sister” in a raid near the town of Azaz, the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP. He named the woman as Rasmiya Awad, and said she was born in 1954. […]
by Mohamad Ali Harissi On Board the RFA Cardigan Bay in the Gulf, Undefined (AFP) — The United States is training Gulf allies to “protect navigation” in the region’s troubled waterways, as it seeks to build an alliance to contain Iran. Washington’s three-week International Maritime Exercise (IMX), which started on October 21, came after a number of commercial vessels were attacked in the Gulf from May, ratcheting up regional tensions. Washington and other Western powers […]
by Michel COMTE OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — China has agreed to resume imports of Canadian beef and pork, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday, signaling a breakthrough in their tense relations. “Good news for Canadian farmers today: Canadian pork and beef exports to China will resume,” Trudeau said in a tweet. He lauded Canada’s new ambassador to China, Dominic Barton, who was appointed in September, and the country’s meat industry for working to reopen “this […]
by Marie GIFFARD SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera said Tuesday he will not resign in the face of deadly protests over inequality and poor social conditions that have entered their third week. Asked by the BBC in an interview whether he will step down, the billionaire conservative leader said: “No.” “These problems have been accumulating for the past 30 years,” Pinera said. “I am responsible (for) part of it and I assume […]
by Joshua Howat Berger MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — US President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico “wage war” on its cartels after three women and six children from an American Mormon community were murdered in an area notorious for drug traffickers. Gunmen ambushed the members of the LeBaron family — a large clan of Mormons who emigrated to Mexico in the late 19th century — as they traveled on a rural road Monday […]
by Shaun TANDON Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Monday formally notified the United Nations that it was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, making the world’s largest economy the sole outlier from the agreement. President Donald Trump went ahead with the pullout despite mounting evidence of the reality and impact of climate change, with September the fourth month in the row with near- or record-breaking temperatures. The […]
