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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The US state of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, causing lava to spew out of ground fissures in residential areas and prompting authorities to mandate thousands of people to evacuate. US Geological Survey authorities of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory unit were both on the ground and headed into the air to assess the eruption, which followed dozens of earthquakes in recent days and began around 4:45 pm local time […]
by Bhuvan BAGGA / Jalees ANDRABI Agence France Presse AGRA, India (AFP) — Powerful dust storms tore across northern India killing at least 100 people and injuring more than 140 as they flattened houses in their path and warnings were made Thursday of more chaos to come. Winds of more than 130 kilometers (80 miles) per hour ravaged Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab states and the death toll was expected to rise, officials said. The […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Beijing Thursday reasserted its right to build “defense” facilities in the disputed South China Sea but declined to confirm reports it had installed new missiles on artificial islands it has built in the region. The Chinese army-installed anti-ship and air-to-air defenses on outposts also claimed by Vietnam and the Philippines over the last 30 days, US network CNBC reported Wednesday, citing sources close to US intelligence. If the information is verified, […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rare visit to Pyongyang, China’s foreign ministry said Thursday on its official social media account. The two-day visit by Wang Yi — the highest-ranking Chinese official to travel to North Korea in years — follows a landmark inter-Korean summit and precedes a planned meeting between Kim and US President Donald Trump in the coming weeks. The […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) –At least 97 people were killed in strong dust storms that swept across northern India, officials said Thursday. Winds of more than 130 kilometers (80 miles) per hour ravaged parts of northern Uttar Pradesh and western Rajasthan states late Wednesday. “We can confirm at least 65 deaths from around 40 of the state’s 75 districts,” T.P. Gupta of the Uttar Pradesh relief commissioner’s office told AFP. Rajasthan’s disaster management chief said […]
by Ryan McMorrow Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Top US and Chinese officials prepared Thursday to kick off crucial trade talks in Beijing but both sides sought to dampen expectations for a quick resolution to a heated dispute between the world’s two largest economies. The gathering comes months after US President Donald Trump sparked a series of tit-for-tat exchanges by threatening to impose huge tariffs on billions of dollars worth of goods, sparking […]
by Said Betanzos with Javier Tovar in Los Angeles Agence France Presse TIJUANA, Mexico— Yolany Reyes is adamant about one thing: no one is going to separate her from her three-year-old son. “It would be like taking away part of me,” said the 26-year-old Honduran. Reyes and her child have traveled across Mexico by train, bus and on foot with a migrant caravan, and now she’s at the US border hoping to gain asylum. Along with 150 other […]
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has dismissed claims that US troops stationed in the country would have to leave if a peace treaty was signed with the north. Moon’s comments came after a presidential adviser publicly suggested the presence of U.S soldiers, sailors and airmen would be called into question if a peace treaty were to be agreed with Pyongyang. Moon Chung-in had written in foreign affairs magazine that it would be “difficult to justify […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Cambridge Analytica, the British marketing analytics firm, announced Wednesday that it was closing and would file for insolvency in Britain and the United States after failing to recover from the Facebook data scandal. The decision follows weeks of intense pressure on the company, hired by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, after allegations emerged it may have hijacked up to 87 million Facebook users’ data. It claimed it has been “vilified” by […]
by Paul Handley Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump added a top impeachment attorney to his legal team Wednesday after the lead White House lawyer for the Russia meddling investigation stepped down. The recruitment of Emmet Flood, who represented President Bill Clinton when he was impeached by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate in 1998-99, signaled that the White House is going on the offensive as […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Forty-nine people were listed as still missing Wednesday after a 24-storey building occupied by squatters in central Sao Paulo was engulfed in fire and collapsed, the Brazilian city’s fire department said. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster on Tuesday only three were declared unaccounted for, including one man who was seconds from being successfully rescued by firefighters before the building suddenly crashed down. “The fire department is continuing to […]
JERUSALEM, Israel (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Wednesday and voiced hope for increased Japanese investment in Israel. “I hope we will continue developing investments between our two countries,” he said after talks with the Netanyahu. The leaders agreed to push forward on establishing direct flights between the two countries to boost tourism, investment and business, according to a statement from Netanyahu’s office. Netanyahu praised “the tremendous […]
