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LOMBOK, Indonesia (AFP) — A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok Sunday, sending people fleeing into the streets just two weeks after a tremor killed more than 460 people. The quake, centred in East Lombok, hit at a relatively shallow depth of seven kilometres (four miles) and was felt across the island, officials said. But it was less powerful than the deadly quake earlier this month and there were no immediate […]
by Bhuvan Bagga Agence France Presse THRISSUR, India (AFP) — Rescuers waded into submerged villages in southern India on Sunday in a desperate search for survivors cut off for days by floods that have already killed more than 350 people. Entire villages in Kerala have been swept away in the state’s worst floods in a century, and emergency responders fear the death toll will rise as they reach areas almost entirely underwater. In Thrissur, […]
A strong 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Fiji Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but it was too deep to generate a tsunami and there were no reports of damage. The tremor hit at 12:19 pm (0019 GMT) local time 361 kilometres (224 miles) east of the Pacific nation’s capital Suva, at a depth of 563 kilometres, the US seismologists said. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was “no tsunami threat because the […]
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistani authorities said Saturday they have now retrieved 18 bodies after a blast tore through a coal mine in southwest Pakistan earlier this week, including two rescuers who entered after the explosion. The mine caved in after workers used dynamite during an excavation in Sinjidi, some 45 kilometres (28 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas rich Balochistan province. Rescue teams had pulled nine workers alive from different tunnels […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean state media blamed Donald Trump’s political opponents for the “deadlock” over denuclearization on Saturday, urging the US President to act boldly to make progress on the thorny issue. Trump and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un held a groundbreaking summit in Singapore in June, which the US leader touted as a historic breakthrough. At the meeting the pair struck a vague agreement to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, […]
by Remi BANET with Fanny CARRIER in Rome Agence France Presse GENOA, Italy (AFP) — A state funeral service was underway Saturday in Italy to commemorate dozens of people killed in Genoa’s bridge disaster, as some outraged relatives shunned official ceremonies and rescuers pulled more bodies from the wreckage. The service, which coincides with a national day of mourning, came as firefighters still searching for five missing people discovered a car with human remains […]
by Nina Larson Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)–Former UN chief and Nobel peace laureate Kofi Annan died Saturday at the age of 80, his foundation announced, prompting a barrage of grief-stricken tributes from around the world. The Ghanaian national, who lived in Switzerland, was a career diplomat who projected quiet charisma and was widely credited for raising the world body’s profile in global politics during his two terms as UN chief from 1997 to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The bomb that killed 40 children and 11 others in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen was sold by the United States under a State Department deal with Riyadh, CNN has reported. The numbers on shrapnel, of which images were taken shortly after the attack this month, indicate that it was a laser-guided Mk 82 bomb manufactured by defense contractor Lockheed Martin, CNN […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican marines seized a record 50 tons of crystal meth from a drug lab in the state of Sinaloa, authorities said Friday. The military said it detected the lab in the town of Alcoyonqui, near the state capital Culiacan, and raided it on Thursday. “A clandestine narco-lab and two underground store rooms were secured and dismantled, with approximately 50 tons of processed crystal meth in solid and liquid […]
KOCHI, India (AFP) — The death toll from major floods in India’s Kerala state jumped to 324 on Friday, the government said. In a tweet Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said his state was “facing the worst flood in 100 years” with “324 lives lost”. The death toll from 10 days of floods in the state, a key tourist draw, has nearly trebled in the last 24 hours.
by Remi BANET Agence France-Presse GENOA, Italy (AFP) — Grieving relatives wept over coffins of dozens of victims of Genoa’s bridge collapse Friday as controversy clouded a planned state funeral, while rescuers pressed on with their formidable search for those missing in the rubble. Fury is growing over the shock collapse of the Morandi bridge, a decades-old viaduct that crumbled in a storm on Tuesday killing at least 38 people, with Italian media reporting that […]
by Remi Banet Agence France-Presse Gênes, Italy (AFP) – Rescuers used diggers to claw through mountains of rubble, calling out in the hope of finding survivors as a desperate search for victims of the viaduct collapse entered its fourth day Friday with up to 20 people still missing. Italy’s government has intensified its attacks on the operator of the decades-old Morandi bridge, which buckled without warning on Tuesday, sending cars, trucks and huge chunks of concrete […]
