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By Gerard MARTINEZ MIAMI, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – A year ago, Felix Maradiaga, who was imprisoned while running for president against Nicaragua’s increasingly authoritarian leader Daniel Ortega, was freed and exiled to the United States. The 47-year-old had been arrested along with several other opposition candidates months before the country’s November 2021 vote, while Ortega went on to claim a fourth consecutive term. Now living in Miami, Maradiaga spoke with AFP about his ordeal, […]
By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS UNITED NATIONS, United States, Feb 7, 2024 (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that the world is entering “an age of chaos” with a deeply divided Security Council unable to address critical issues such as the Israel-Hamas war. With the war in Gaza entering its fifth month on Wednesday, Guterres warned that if the Israeli armed forces press on into the southern city of Rafah, it will “exponentially increase what […]
By Elman MAMEDOV Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev secured a fifth consecutive term in elections on Wednesday, official results showed, an expected outcome after his country’s historic victory over Armenian separatists last year. Tallies showed that Aliyev won the election with 92 percent of the vote after nearly all electoral precincts declared results, in a ballot held during a crackdown on independent media and in the absence of any real opposition. “The Azerbaijani people have elected […]
By Phil Hazlewood and Shaun Tandon with Adel Zaanoun in the Gaza Strip JERUSALEM, Feb 7, 2024 (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday dismissed Hamas’s demand for a ceasefire and ordered troops to prepare to move on the city of Rafah in Gaza’s far south, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Tel Aviv hours after meeting Netanyahu, said he still saw […]
By Anna MALPAS Russia fired dozens of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday in a “massive” early morning attack that killed at least four and injured more than a dozen, officials in Kyiv said. Russian strikes on the capital Kyiv killed three people, local authorities said, as images showed a large fire billowing in the top floors of a high-rise residential building. “Another massive attack against our country. Six regions were under enemy attack,” […]
With his father King Charles III undergoing treatment for cancer and his wife recovering from surgery, Britain’s Prince William will return to royal frontline duties on Wednesday. The king’s shock cancer diagnosis, announced on Monday, and Catherine’s abdominal operation have left William shouldering a heavy royal burden. William, 41, Charles’s eldest son and heir to the throne, postponed public engagements to care for his wife, the Princess of Wales, and their three children after she […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Shaun Tandon in Tel Aviv Israel on Tuesday said it was examining Hamas’s response to a plan to halt nearly four months of fighting in Gaza, after key mediator Qatar said the Palestinian militants had given a “positive” reply to the proposed agreement. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his fifth tour of the region since the war broke out in October, arrived in Israel to discuss what he called […]
STOCKHOLM, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – Swedish radio reported Tuesday that an Iranian couple, believed to be working for Iranian intelligence, were deported after being suspected in a plot to kill Swedish Jews. According to an investigative report by Swedish Radio (SR), the couple, Mahdi Ramezani and Fereshteh Sanaeifarid, had applied for and been granted asylum in Sweden posing as Afghans. Suspected of plotting to kill Swedish Jews, the couple were arrested in April 2021 […]
HONG KONG, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – A Hong Kong airport ground worker was killed when he was hit by a towed aircraft on Tuesday, authorities said, a rare incident that prompted an arrest for dangerous driving. The unnamed victim, a 34-year-old Jordanian national working in Hong Kong, is believed to have been riding in the passenger seat of a tow truck when he fell out of the vehicle and hit by the plane being […]
By Helen ROWE, Stuart GRAHAM LONDON, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – King Charles III’s cancer was caught early, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday, after treatment began for the monarch who is just 18 months into his reign. Buckingham Palace has not specified the type of cancer afflicting the 75-year-old monarch, who has stepped back from his public appearances but continues his other official state duties. The shock announcement sparked an immediate deluge […]
NEW DELHI, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – At least eight people died and 80 were injured Tuesday in a giant explosion at a firework factory in India that saw balls of flames soar into the sky, officials said. Footage on Indian television showed a tower of flame after the explosion at the firecracker plant, with dozens of ambulances sent and army helicopters called in to evacuate the wounded. Senior district police official Rajeshwari Mahobia told […]
MANILA, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – The Philippines has thwarted thousands of “sophisticated” cyberattacks targeting the websites of President Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippine Coast Guard and other government agencies, an official said Tuesday. Hackers began the attacks last year and an investigation was underway to determine if the perpetrators were based in China, undersecretary Jeffrey Ian Dy of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) told a congressional hearing. Dy said the attackers used […]
