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by Sebastien Duval with Leila Macor in Myrtle Beach Agence France Presse WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — The outer edge of Hurricane Florence began buffeting the Carolinas with wind and rain on Thursday as forecasters warned the monster storm would trigger life-threatening flooding as it assaults the US east coast. As Florence churned slowly towards the coasts of North and South Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane, federal and state officials issued final appeals […]
by Anna Smolchenko Agence France Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Two men accused by London of poisoning former Moscow spy Sergei Skripal denied involvement in the murder attempt in a bizarre Russian media interview Thursday that Britain dismissed as “an insult to the public’s intelligence”. Speaking with the head of the Kremlin-backed RT news network, the pair confirmed they were the men whose pictures British authorities released this month, but insisted they were visiting the […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — More than 3,600 children were sexually assaulted by Catholic priests in Germany over nearly seven decades, local media reported Wednesday, citing a study commissioned by the German Bishops Conference. The damning report, which Cardinal Reinhard Marx is to present officially on September 25, deals another blow to the Church after clerical child abuse has been uncovered worldwide. According to the study, 1,670 clergymen in Germany committed some form of sexual attack […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A man went on a shooting rampage in California on Wednesday, killing five people including his wife, before taking his own life, a police spokesman told AFP. The shooting in Bakersfield in central California was possibly “a domestic violence incident,” said Lieutenant Mark King of the Kern County sheriff’s office. Police received their first call at 5:19 pm before responding to the first location, a trucking company, where the rampage began. Three people were killed there and the shooter, armed with […]
by Sébastien DUVAL / with Leila Macor in Columbia, South Carolina Agence France-Presse WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — Dangerous Hurricane Florence edged closer Thursday to delivering a powerful blow to the east coast of the United States, with forecasters warning of life-threatening rainfall and flooding even as it weakened to a Category 2 storm. As day broke for millions of jittery Americans in the monster storm’s path, rain from the Florence’s outer bands approached the […]
WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Florence weakened to a Category 2 storm on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center, but remained on course to deliver a powerful blow to the US east coast. “Florence is now a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind scale,” with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph), the NHC said in its latest update at 0300 GMT. © Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Georgia Governor Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency in the southern US state on Wednesday ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence. Deal said he was issuing the emergency declaration for all 159 counties in Georgia “in light of the storm’s forecasted southward track after making landfall.” Florence, a powerful Category 4 hurricane, is expected to make landfall in the Carolinas late Thursday or early Friday but heavy […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Global stocks were mixed on Wednesday, with Wall Street gyrating on the latest headlines connected to myriad trade conflicts and US airlines and insurers falling ahead of the arrival of a major hurricane. Bourses in London, Paris and Frankfurt all finished solidly higher, with some investors hunting for bargains after recent weakness, traders said. “Stocks have ticked up although traders remain nervous about the state of global trading […]
by Sébastien DUVAL / with Leila Macor in Columbia, South Carolina Agence France Presse Hurricane Florence veered slightly to the southwest and weakened a bit on Wednesday but remained a powerful storm on course to deliver a potentially devastating blow to the Carolina coast. Georgia joined four other East Coast states issuing an emergency declaration as the latest forecasts showed Florence dumping torrential rain on the southern state. As Florence churned across the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s Narita airport briefly closed one of its two runways Thursday after what is suspected to be an unexploded shell was found buried nearby, officials said. Local police cleared the suspicious object and there were no flight cancellations, as one runway operated as normal during the three-hour closure, officials added. “Contractors involved in drilling work at night found something like an explosive” in the soil, said a spokesman for Narita, […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — At least 20 people have been killed in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region after a hill collapsed onto their village following heavy rain, a rebel group said Wednesday. Several people are still feared to be buried after rocks crashed down onto their houses in the mountainous Jebel Marra region of Darfur on September 7, the group said. The remote area is under the control of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army-Abdul Wahid (SLA-AW) […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim moved a step closer to completing his comeback from prison to the country’s top leadership Wednesday after a party-mate quit parliament, allowing him to contest a by-election. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who led Anwar’s party to a shock victory in May against Najib Razak, has vowed to hand over power to Anwar within two years. Anwar, 71, received a royal pardon and was freed from jail shortly after the victory, […]
