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US pressures Saudi prince over missing journalist

by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded Saudi Arabia provide answers over the disappearance of respected journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whom Turkish officials suspect was murdered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The Trump administration sharply upped the pressure, reversing an initially low key response after Washington Post contributor Khashoggi vanished on October 2. Trump said he had talked “more than once” and “at […]

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UPDATED: Tsunami threat as 7.0-magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea’s New Britain island on Thursday, triggering a tsunami warning. Hazardous tsunami waves were forecast for some coasts, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Tsunami waves were forecast to be less than 0.3 metres (one foot) high for the coasts of PNG and Solomon Islands, it said, adding that wave amplitudes could vary between regions. A spokesman for PNG’s National Disaster Management Office in Port […]

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Hurricane Michael strengthens to ‘extremely dangerous’ Category 4: US forecasters

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Michael has strengthened to an “extremely dangerous” Category Four hurricane as it rumbles toward the Gulf Coast of Florida, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday. It said the storm is now packing maximum wind gusts of 130 mph (210 kilometers), could grow even more and is expected to make landfall later in the day along the Florida Panhandle or Big Bend area as a “life-threatening event”. A storm surge of […]

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Chilling call made to wife of ex-Interpol boss

  By John Leicester and Gillian Wong Associated Press LYON, France (AP) — The call came at night and was chilling. “You listen, but you don’t speak,” the man on the other end said. “We’ve come in two work teams, two work teams just for you.” In her first one-on-one interview since her husband’s disappearance in China, the wife of the former head of Interpol described the threatening phone call that prompted authorities in the […]

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Florida braces for deadly surge as Hurricane Michael strengthens

  by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / with Leila Macor in Miami Agence France Presse PANAMA CITY, United States (AFP) — Michael is now forecast to slam ashore on Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane, bringing a surge of up to 13 feet (four meters) in what could be the worst storm there in decades. As of late Tuesday, Michael was packing maximum sustained winds of nearly 125 miles per hour (205 kilometers) as it […]

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UPDATED: Kenya bus crash kills 51

  NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Fifty-one people were killed when the bus they were travelling in overturned and its entire roof was ripped off in an accident in western Kenya early Wednesday, police said. “It is unfortunate that we have lost 51 people,” Kenya’s police chief Joseph Boinnet told Capital FM radio. According to police, the bus was travelling from Nairobi to the western town of Kakamega and carrying 52 passengers. The Kenyan Red Cross […]

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S. Korea begins naval event without Japan after ‘Rising Sun’ flag row

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea on Wednesday kicked off an international fleet review involving 13 nations after Japan bowed out in protest at Seoul’s demand it remove a controversial ‘Rising Sun’ naval flag from Tokyo’s warship. The five-day event off the southern island of Jeju had initially included the Japanese navy, whose plan to fly the flag caused fury and a series of anti-Tokyo protests in its former colony. The emblem has been […]

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Iglesia Ni Cristo holds “Aid For Humanity” in Winnipeg; 2 Canada legislators express admiration for INC efforts to help the poor

  (Eagle New) — The Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) through its charitable arm, the Felix Y. Manalo (FYM) Foundation, recently conducted an Aid For Humanity program in Winnipeg, Canada to help poor communities there. The event was held on September 28, 2018 at the Turtle Island Recreation Center located in the North End of Winnipeg. It was witnessed by two members of Canada’s Legislative Assembly who expressed admiration for the Church’s efforts to […]

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Workers injured in Bosnia oil refinery blast: report

SARAJEVO, Bosnia, and Herzegovina (AFP) — An explosion at a Russian-owned oil refinery in Bosnia slightly injured eight workers late Tuesday, local television reported citing officials. The blast at the plant in the northern town of Brod, on the border with Croatia, occurred around 9:30 pm (1930 GMT), RTRS television reported, citing the head of the municipality, Ilija Jovicic. The cause of the explosion at Bosnia’s sole oil refinery, which sparked a fire, was not […]

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Ivanka Trump tamps down idea she would be ‘dynamite’ UN envoy

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Ivanka Trump on Tuesday tamped down the suggestion her father could be poised to tap her as UN envoy, after President Donald Trump said she would make a “dynamite” replacement — were it not for nepotism concerns. “It is an honor to serve in the White House alongside so many great colleagues and I know that the President will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley. That replacement will not […]

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Netanyahu praises Nikki Haley after she quits UN post

JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations after she resigned on Tuesday, following a tenure in which she asserted Washington’s support for Israel. “I thank ambassador Nikki Haley for her uncompromising struggle against the hypocrisy of the UN,” he wrote in Hebrew on his official Twitter account, wishing her success in her future endeavours. Haley has been a favourite in Israel as she pushed […]

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Planned Kim summit narrowed down to ‘three or four’ locations: Trump

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that planning for his next summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is advanced and that “three or four locations” have been short-listed. Trump said at the White House that the meeting would “probably” not be in Singapore, where their historic first talks took place in June. The pair discussed ending the reclusive state’s nuclear weapons program and hostilities between Washington and […]

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