MADRID, Spain (AFP) — A man armed with a knife was killed when he attacked a police station near the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona early Monday, police said. “A man armed with a knife entered the police station in Cornella to attack the officers. The attacker was shot,” the Catalonia regional police said on Twitter. A police spokesman refused to comment on local media reports that the man was from Algeria and had shouted “Allahu […]
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Multiple quakes rock Indonesia’s Lombok island, 10 dead
by Aman Alief Agence France Presse MATARAM, Indonesia (AFP) — A series of powerful earthquakes have rocked the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, killing at least 10 people and setting off fresh waves of panic after nearly 500 died there following a huge tremor two weeks ago. The quakes hit throughout Sunday, with the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday which triggered landslides and sent people fleeing for cover as parts of the island suffered […]
Bodies found as floods recede in India’s Kerala
KOCHI, India (AFP) – Receding floodwaters left Indian troops and rescuers the grim task Monday of hunting for bodies left by the worst monsoon in a century in Kerala state as the death toll rose above 400. With nearly three quarters of a million people packed into relief camps in the southern state, known for its tourist beaches and hill resorts, authorities also fear outbreaks of disease. After a week of fierce downpours, rainfall eased […]
China sacks six more officials over vaccine scandal
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said Saturday it has sacked six senior officials over a vaccine scandal that inflamed public fears over the safety of domestically produced drugs. The government has been struggling to shore up public confidence in the pharmaceutical sector following the revelation last month that a major Chinese manufacturer of rabies vaccines was found to have fabricated records and was ordered to cease production. Authorities say the suspect rabies vaccines did not […]
Incredible Duck Race of Tampa succeeds in second consecutive year
By Jay Rosquites EBC Florida Bureau TAMPA, FLORIDA (Eagle News Service) — Clear skies, happy faces, and a portion of the Hillsborough River filled with 10,000 rubber duckies graced the residents of Downtown Tampa. On its second consecutive year, the Incredible Duck Race was set at the riverfront of Hixon Park. Open to the public, this event allowed people to adopt a rubber duck for five dollars each, claiming their stake at a cash prize that […]
Genoa toll hits 43 as search for answers ramps up
by Remi Banet with Terry Daley in Rome © Agence France-Presse GENOA, Italy (AFP) — Italy is searching for answers on Sunday after paying its respects to the dozens killed by a collapsed bridge in Genoa, as the country’s new government continues to battle the underfire motorway company that manages. The death toll from the disaster rose to 43 on Sunday after firefighters discovered three bodies, reported to be those of a couple and their […]
Canada’s Trudeau to run again in 2019
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Sunday he will run for re-election in 2019 legislative polls. The Liberal Party leader was officially nominated by his party in the central Montreal district of Papineau, a centrist stronghold he has represented since 2008. He was re-elected in 2011 and 2015. He spoke of his “deep conviction that despite the politics of fear and division, staying positive, pulling people together, looking for ways to […]
S. Koreans head for family reunions in North after decades apart
by Sunghee Hwang Agence France Presse SOKCHO, South Korea (AFP) — Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans entered the North Monday to meet relatives for the first time since the peninsula and their families were divided by war nearly seven decades ago. The three-day reunion — the first for three years — will take place at Mount Kumgang, a scenic resort in North Korea, following a rapid diplomatic thaw between the neighbours. Millions of […]
More bodies found in flooded Kerala as toll hits 370
by Bhuvan BAGGA in Thrissur, and Abhaya Srivastava in New Delhi Agence France Presse THRISSUR, India (AFP) — Rescuers searched submerged villages in southwest India on Sunday in a desperate hunt for survivors after floods killed at least 370 people and drove more than 700,000 from their homes. Entire villages in Kerala have been swept away in the state’s worst floods for a century. Rescuers fear the death toll will rise as they reach areas […]
Tributes pour in for former UN chief and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan
by Nina Larson with Carole Landry in New York Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — From his native Africa to the United States, tributes continued to pour in from around the world Sunday after UN chief, Nobel peace laureate, and “diplomatic rock star” Kofi Annan died at the age of 80. The Ghanaian national was a career diplomat who projected quiet charisma and was widely credited for raising the world body’s profile in global […]
Five dead as multiple quakes rock Indonesia’s Lombok island anew
MATARAM, Indonesia (AFP) — Multiple earthquakes — including a powerful and shallow 6.9-magnitude tremor — have rocked the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, killing at least five people and setting off fresh waves of panic. A series of quakes were recorded by seismologists throughout Sunday, the first measuring 6.3 shortly before midday which triggered landslides and sent people fleeing for cover. It was followed nearly twelve hours later by a quake measuring 6.9 and […]
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