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By Patrick Ivan Palugod EBC New Jersey Bureau NEW YORK (Eagle News) – Anxious cyclists refreshed their weather apps constantly during the week leading up to the 42nd Annual TD Bank 5 Boro Bike Tour in hopes of seeing sunshine in the forecast versus the 100% chance of rain predicted. But despite waking up early Sunday morning to the steady rainfall, tens of thousands of cyclists still put on their raincoats and prepared for a […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A car ploughed into a group of kindergarten children in western Japan’s Shiga region on Wednesday, killing two toddlers and injuring others, police said. Police said the car veered onto the pavement after making “contact” with another larger vehicle that was turning at a junction in Otsu City. The accident killed a girl and a boy, both two years old, a police spokesman told AFP. “The (smaller) car rammed into […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — A blast at one of Pakistan’s oldest and most popular Sufi shrines killed at least four people and wounded 24 in the eastern city of Lahore Wednesday, police said, as the country marks the fasting month of Ramadan. Police have said they are still investigating the nature of the blast, which occurred near the entrance gate for female visitors to the 11th-century Data Darbar shrine, one of the largest Sufi shrines […]
by Eva XIAO BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Canadian man handed the death penalty for drug smuggling in China will appeal his sentence Thursday, in a case that has deepened the diplomatic rift between Beijing and Canada. The appeal comes against the backdrop of Beijing’s anger over the December arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei, who faces a US extradition hearing in Canada on Wednesday. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was […]
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colorado (Eagle News) — Just before two o’clock Tuesday afternoon the sound that teachers and students dread to hear on their school campus rang out at STEM School Highlands Ranch. Gunfire erupted, making the charter school, located about eight miles from Columbine High School, the latest site in school shooting tragedies. According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s office, seven were injured and one was killed. “It is with extreme sadness that we can […]
by Hugues JEANNEAUD BLAGNAC, France (AFP) — Four women were freed “safe and sound” Tuesday after being held hostage for five hours by an armed teenager at a bar on the outskirts of the southern French city of Toulouse, officials said. The 17-year-old hostage-taker remained holed up alone in the establishment in the northwest Blagnac suburb of the city for a couple of hours afterward before finally being arrested following protracted negotiations, Interior Minister Christophe […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian investigators were on Tuesday considering pilot error as the cause of a crash-landing that saw a plane erupt in flames at Moscow’s busiest airport and kill 41 people, media reported. The first fire engine arrived at the scene only two minutes after the plane landed and burst into flames, the airport said Tuesday. Russian television channel Ren TV posted what it said was the conversation between the pilots and air […]
by Fulya Ozerkan with Raziye Akkoc in Ankara ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday welcomed in order to re-run the recent Istanbul election, a move the opposition has branded an attack on democracy. His ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost the mayorship of Turkey’s biggest city by a narrow margin and has refused to accept defeat. “We sincerely believe there was organized corruption and irregularities,” Erdogan told party members […]
by Chet Strange LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — At least eight teenaged students were wounded Tuesday in a school shooting by fellow pupils in the US state of Colorado, police said, across town from one of the worst gun massacres in the country’s modern history. Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said several of the students hurt were in critical condition, including some in surgery. No staff or teachers were known to be wounded. The […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Air Force is deploying massive B-52 Stratofortress bombers to the Gulf in response to an alleged possible plan by Iran to attack American forces in the region, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Several nuclear-capable B-52s are heading to the region along with an aircraft carrier task force following what the Defense Department called “recent and clear indications that Iranian and Iranian proxy forces were making preparations to possibly attack […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran will reduce some of its commitments to the nuclear deal in response to the United States’ decision to withdraw from the accord, state news agency IRNA said on Tuesday. “This will be communicated to the ambassadors of the five countries” still party to the deal — Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia — at a meeting on Wednesday with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, IRNA reported. A foreign […]
NIAMEY, Niger (AFP) — The death toll from a tanker truck explosion near the international airport in Niger’s capital, Niamey, has risen to 60, authorities said Tuesday. The tally is likely to rise further as the prognosis is poor for several people who sustained severe burns, security official Hamani Adamou Abdoul-Aziz told state television. The overturned tanker exploded Sunday night as crowds gathered to collect spilt fuel. Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum, who inspected the […]
