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‘Hundreds of thousands’ of cattle feared dead after Australia floods

TOWNSVILLE, Australia (AFP) —  Hundreds of thousands of cattle weakened from a severe drought are feared to have died in record-breaking floods in northeastern Australia, authorities said Friday, as they stepped up efforts to feed surviving livestock. Incessant rains over an almost two-week period have flooded swathes of Queensland state, with the full scale of the devastation on drought-hit cattle stations becoming clearer as floodwaters recede. “We are expecting hundreds of thousands in terms of […]

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Ten trapped by avalanche in Indian Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — Rescuers battled Friday to reach the site of an avalanche that buried 10 people in Indian-administered Kashmir following two days of heavy snowfall across the region, police said. The avalanche hit a fire emergency facility late Thursday in the Banihal area of the Kashmir valley. Six police, two prisoners and two other personnel had taken refuge there during a storm. “We have not been able to rescue anyone so far because […]

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Toll in Brazil dam disaster rises to 157 dead, 182 missing

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — The toll from a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil’s Minas Gerais state has risen to 157 deaths after nearly two weeks of searches, with 182 missing, authorities said Thurday. Those listed as missing are presumed dead, but not yet located under the layers of muddy mining waste released when the tailings dam broke apart in the town of Brumadinho on January 25. In recent days, rescue teams […]

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Massive drug bust exposes Mexico-Australia cartel ties

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australian and US authorities on Friday announced they had seized around a billion dollars worth of methylamphetamine — or “ice” — in a bust that revealed new ties between Mexican cartels and Aussie biker gangs. The Australian Federal Police said that a joint investigation led the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to uncover 1.7 tonnes of drugs in California last month. US authorities said the illicit cargo — with a street […]

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Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono to visit PHL

(Eagle News) — Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono will visit the Philippines this month. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Kono will undertake the official visit from Feb. 9 to 11, upon the invitation of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. According to the DFA, on Feb. 10, Locsin will hold bilateral discussions with Kono on “areas of mutual interest, including political, economic and people-to-people engagement, especially Japan’s support for infrastructure development […]

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Saudi crown prince told aide he would use ‘a bullet’ on Khashoggi: report

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince told a senior aide he would go after Jamal Khashoggi “with a bullet” a year before the dissident journalist was killed inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, the New York Times reported Thursday quoting US intelligence. US intelligence understood that Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s 33-year-old de facto ruler, was ready to kill the journalist, although he may not have literally meant to shoot him, according to […]

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DFA: Two Filipinos killed in Paris fire

(Eagle News) — Two Filipinos were among those killed in a fire that razed an apartment building in Paris, France on Tuesday, Feb. 5. The Department of Foreign Affairs made the announcement after receiving confirmation from the Crisis Center of the Paris Prefecture that the couple were among ten killed in the blaze on Rue Erlanger at the 16th Arrondissement of the city. Earlier, the embassy had already been assisting the couple’s daughter, who had […]

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Death toll hits 10 in Istanbul apartment block collapse

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — The death toll from the collapse of an Istanbul apartment block rose to 10 on Thursday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble, Turkish authorities said. The eight-storey building, which is located in the Kartal district on the Asian side of the city, collapsed on Wednesday but the cause is not yet clear. Rescuers had initially put the death toll at two, but Istanbul governor Ali Yerlikaya said on Thursday […]

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Trucks carrying US humanitarian aid arrive at Venezuela border: AFP

CUCUTA, Colombia (AFP) — Trucks carrying desperately-needed US humanitarian aid arrived at the Venezuelan border on Wednesday, AFP reporters said. Several vehicles loaded with food and medicines rumbled into a collection center on the Colombian side of the Tienditas border bridge, which remains blocked by Venezuelan troops. President Nicolas Maduro has refused foreign aid shipments, saying they would open the way for US military intervention to depose him. His opposition rival Juan Guaido says up […]

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Trump says no Xi meeting expected before trade talks deadline

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Thursday he does not expect to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping before a March 1 deadline in trade war negotiations between the two economic superpowers. “Not yet,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if a meeting had been arranged for within the next month. Asked if a meeting could happen before March 1, he said: “No.” Trump has said that final […]

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Catholic Church’s Polish archbishop meets victims of pedophile priests

  WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — The Catholic Church’s Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki on Wednesday said he had met with several victims of church sex abuse ahead of a Vatican meeting on the issue later this month. Pope Francis has called senior bishops from around the world to Rome on February 21-24 to provide them with concrete measures to deal with widespread clergy sex abuse of children and young people. “A couple of weeks ago… I […]

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