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ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy needs more migrants in order to pay for the population’s pensions, the country’s social security chief said Wednesday, drawing the ire of far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini. If we halved migratory flows “in five years we would lose population equivalent to that of Turin”, Boeri said referring to the country’s important northern industrial hub. If immigration were reduced to zero we would lose “700,000 people under 34 years of age […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A heat wave in Quebec has killed at least 17 people in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, health officials said Wednesday. Twelve of the dead were reported in the eastern province’s capital Montreal, said regional public health director Mylene Drouin. The Tribune newspaper said five of the deaths occurred in the past 48 hours in the Eastern Townships, a rural area just east of the city. […]
MAE SAI, Thailand (AFP) — A new video released Wednesday filmed in the bowels of a northern Thai cave showed members of a trapped football team laughing as they greet the camera to say they are in good health after their astonishing discovery by divers. The footage, published by the Thai Navy SEAL Facebook page, runs by 11 of the 13 members of the team, each makes a traditional Thai greeting gesture to the camera […]
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) — Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on Wednesday announced a “total amnesty” for all political prisoners and opposition figures banned from political activity, according to a decree read on national television. “I grant total amnesty to all citizens condemned by the courts… for political offenses in the exercise of their activity, serving or not serving their sentence,” the presidential decree said. The move comes after President Obiang, who has ruled the […]
by Sofia Miselem Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mario Sepulveda, one of the Chilean miners who was trapped underground for 69 days in 2010, had a moving message of encouragement Wednesday for the boys’ football team trapped in a cave in Thailand: “Hang in there!” In a video message sent to AFP, Sepulveda — known as “Super Mario” for helping keep his comrades’ spirits up during their ordeal — said his thoughts were with […]
Melissa Sarmiento Allen EBC Florida Bureau LAKELAND, FL (Eagle News) — A large group of Polk County locals marched through the streets of downtown Lakeland, Florida on Saturday to protest in solidarity for the Families Belong Together Rally, a nationwide protest against the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” immigration policy which has resulted in more than 2,000 children being separated from their parents. Protesters, both young and old, were undeterred by the rain as they […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The head of world cycling, David Lappartient, on Wednesday urged the public to ensure British rider Chris Froome has a “safe” Tour de France. The world’s biggest cycling race starts on Saturday, just days after four-time champion Froome was cleared of doping suspicions by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), headed by Lappartient. In a post on his Twitter account, Lappartient said the UCI’s decision should be respected, as should “all riders, […]
by M. Jegathesa Agence France-Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was formally charged Wednesday with corruption linked to a multi-billion dollar financial scandal that contributed to his shock election defeat less than two months ago. The first ex-premier in Malaysia to appear before a judge, Najib pleaded not guilty to three counts of criminal breach of trust and a separate charge that he abused his position to pocket 42 […]
NANTES, Frances (AFP) – Groups of young people clashed with police in the western French city of Nantes late Tuesday after a 22-year-old man was shot dead by an officer during a police check. Cars were burned and a shopping centre partly set alight in the Breil neighborhood as police confronted young people, some armed with molotov cocktails. The circumstances in which the man was killed are being investigated by the police. The incident occurred […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP)–Jailed former Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has decided to cease commenting on the World Cup for Brazilian television to avoid breaking election rules. The 72-year-old leftist politician was the front-runner for October’s presidential elections until his incarceration in April after being convicted of accepting a bribe from Brazilian construction company OAS. “In order to comply with the electoral legislation, which prohibits pre-candidates from participating in radio and TV programs from […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) – A Chilean judge has convicted nine retired soldiers in the 1973 murder of one of Chile’s most beloved folk singers, Victor Jara, the judiciary said on Tuesday. Jara, 40, was arrested the day after the September 11, 1973 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Salvador Allende and installed Augusto Pinochet as dictator. Jara’s body was found days later, riddled with 44 bullets. He had been held, along with around 5,000 other political prisoners, […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) – An Ecuadoran court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Brussels-based former president Rafael Correa over alleged links to the kidnapping of an opponent in Colombia. The National Court of Justice said Judge Daniella Camacho “resolves to impose preventive detention” against Correa and has alerted Interpol. Correa, president from 2007-2017, was one of the feistiest characters in Latin American politics. He now lives in his wife’s native Belgium, but is under investigation […]
