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VATRY, France, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – Ten Indian passengers among more than 300, including unaccompanied minors, on a Nicaragua-bound plane held in France over suspected human trafficking have applied for asylum, a source close to the case told AFP Saturday. The plane has been held at Vatry airport, 150 kilometres (95 miles) east of Paris, since arriving from Dubai on Thursday following an anonymous tip-off that it was carrying potential victims of human trafficking. […]
PARIS, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – Five people were arrested in northern France on Friday as part of an investigation into a criminal terrorist conspiracy, the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office said. A source close to the case confirmed to AFP that they had been taken into police custody, but gave no further details of their suspected crimes. The arrests took place in Nancy and two other towns in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of northern France, the […]
JERUSALEM, Dec 22, 2023 (AFP) – A US-Israeli man believed to have been taken captive by Hamas militants on October 7 was killed on the day of the attack, his kibbutz community said Friday. Palestinian militants took the body of Gad Haggai, 73, from his community of Nir Oz in southern Israel to the Gaza Strip, the kibbutz said in a statement. His wife is believed to have been abducted alive. The Israeli army, contacted […]
COLOMBO, Dec 24, 2023 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s police announced Sunday the arrests of nearly 15,000 people during a week-long military-backed anti-narcotics drive, a crackdown denounced by rights activists. Police said their operation, code-named “Yuktiya” or “Justice”, led to the seizure of almost 440 kilograms (970 pounds) of narcotics, including 272 kg of cannabis, 35 kg of hashish and nine kilograms of heroin. Authorities believe the Indian Ocean island is being used as a drug […]
GENEVA, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – The United Nations called Saturday for the urgent rescue of 185 people, mainly women and children, on a distressed boat last heard to be near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean. Around 70 of those onboard are children and 88 are women, the UNHCR refugee agency said in a statement. “At least a dozen are feared to be in critical condition with one individual reported to […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 24, 2023 (AFP) – A Japanese-owned chemical tanker struck Saturday off the coast of India was targeted by a drone “fired from Iran,” the Pentagon said, a sign of expanding risks to commercial shipping beyond the Red Sea. It was the first time the Pentagon has openly accused Iran of directly targeting ships since the start of Israel’s war on the militant group Hamas, which is backed by Tehran. The attack came amid […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – A proposed deal that would see US Steel Corp bought by Japan’s Nippon Steel should be closely investigated by American authorities, the White House said Thursday, warning it could have national security implications. Unveiling the planned transaction this week, the two companies depicted the deal as a marriage of the holders of top technologies that would boost steel output and accelerate efforts toward decarbonization. But US Steel’s possible sale […]
KYIV, Ukraine, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – Ukraine’s military said it has shot down three Russian fighter-bombers in the south of the country. Air force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said the Su-34 jets were downed around noon on Friday. In his announcement he noted a message found on a downed Russian drone which read “Die, bitches”. “Great idea! Here is our response!” he said on Telegram. In his nightly address on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked […]
By Shaun TANDON WASHINGTON, Dec 22, 2023 (AFP) – The United States on Friday accused Iran of close involvement in attacks on commercial ships by Yemen’s Huthi rebels, stepping up the tone as Washington considers tougher measures including possible force. The White House publicly released US intelligence as the Iranian-linked Yemeni insurgents persist with ship strikes they say are in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Israel is battling Hamas militants. The White […]
By Chris Lefkow WASHINGTON, Dec 22, 2023 (AFP) – The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to immediately hear former president Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution, potentially delaying his 2020 election interference trial. Special Counsel Jack Smith had asked the nation’s highest court to take up the immunity case on an expedited basis, bypassing the federal court of appeals. The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, including three justices […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – A jury in the western US state of Colorado on Friday found two paramedics guilty of negligent homicide in the death of a Black man who was put in a chokehold and injected with ketamine during his arrest, US media said. The August 2019 death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man, died several days after a struggle with police and after being injected with the sedative by […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 23, 2023 (AFP) – The UN Security Council expressed “alarm” at growing violence in war-torn Sudan on Friday, a day after it reported that seven million people have been displaced by the conflict. In a joint statement, the Council “strongly condemned” attacks on civilians and the spread of the conflict “into areas hosting large populations of internally displaced persons, refugees, and asylum seekers.” “The members of the Security Council expressed alarm at the […]
