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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Ten people on board a 14-hour Emirates flight from Dubai were taken to hospital in New York on Wednesday after US health authorities mobilized to meet the jet ferrying sick passengers. Images of the double-decker A380 aircraft isolated on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport were broadcast by US media, which reported that the plane had been quarantined. Pictures posted on social media showed ambulances lined up […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan has announced for the first time that a worker at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has died after being exposed to radiation, Japanese media reported. The man aged in his 50s developed lung cancer after he was involved in emergency work at the plant between March and December 2011, following the devastating tsunami. The Japanese government has paid out compensation in four previous cases where workers contracted cancer following the disaster, […]
by Paul HANDLEY / Jerome CARTILLIER Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Top members of Donald Trump’s administration are so alarmed by the president’s “erratic” and “amoral” behavior that they are actively working to undermine him, an anonymous senior official wrote in The New York Times Wednesday. Trump immediately slammed as “gutless” the unsigned op-ed — published a day after excerpts from bombshell book claiming that White House staff were constantly battling to […]
by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan scrambled Wednesday to evacuate passengers trapped at a major airport when a tanker slammed into its only access bridge during the most powerful typhoon to hit the country for 25 years. Typhoon Jebi left a trail of destruction Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring hundreds more as it battered western Japan with ferocious winds and lashing rain. As Japan was still picking up the […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — Fighting in and around the Libyan capital has displaced thousands of people, the government said Tuesday as the UN prepared to host talks seeking to halt the violence. Clashes since August 27 between rival militias in and around Tripoli have killed at least 50 people and wounded 138 others, most of them civilians, the health ministry said in an updated toll. The fighting has raged mostly in the southern suburbs of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Gordon was making landfall Tuesday night on the US Gulf Coast along the border of Alabama and Mississippi as hurricane warnings remained in place. Authorities declared a state of emergency in both states as well as in the city of New Orleans in Louisiana — devastated in 2005 by mega hurricane Katrina. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Gordon, which formed near the upper Florida Keys Monday, […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A major airport that was cut off when a huge typhoon smashed through its sole access road was being evacuated Wednesday, as Japan grappled with devastation caused by its most powerful storm in a quarter of a century. Boats were ferrying stranded passengers from Kansai International Airport — one of the country’s busiest — after thousands of people were forced to spend the night in the partially flooded facility. At least […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A revamped continental trade deal must include a dispute resolution mechanism, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, pushing back on US demands to get rid of binational panels to challenge anti-dumping and countervailing duties. “We’ve said from the very beginning that we need a dispute resolution mechanism like Chapter 19 and we will hold firm on that,” Trudeau said in Vancouver on the eve of the resumption of talks […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Gordon gained strength as it moved steadily toward the US Gulf Coast Tuesday, on track to make landfall just east of New Orleans with hurricane force winds. Authorities declared a state of emergency in the “Big Easy” — devastated in 2005 by mega Hurricane Katrina — as well as in Mississippi, and encouraged people living outside its levee system to evacuate voluntarily. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — Guatemala President Jimmy Morales ordered the head of a United Nations anti-corruption commission be blocked from entering the Central American country just four days after shutting down the mission. The UN’s International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala had been investigating corruption in the country but its mandate was ended by Morales on Friday. The government said in a statement that it considers Colombian Ivan Velasquez “a person acting against […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The toll in the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in a quarter century rose Wednesday to nine, with thousands stranded at a major airport because of storm damage. Typhoon Jebi slammed into the west coast of Japan around noon on Tuesday, bringing maximum winds of 216 kilometres (135 miles) an hour and heavy rain. The powerful gusts ripped sheeting from rooftops, overturned trucks on bridges and swept a 2,591-ton tanker […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — One worker was killed and two injured when carbon dioxide leaked at a Samsung Electronics chip plant on Tuesday, the South Korean company said. The three were found unconscious in the basement of the semiconductor factory in Suwon just south of Seoul, the firm said in a statement. A man aged 24 was pronounced dead in hospital hours later and two others, aged 26 and 54, remain unconscious, Samsung said. […]
