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SYDNEY, Dec 7, 2023 (AFP) – Australia clinched a security deal with Papua New Guinea on Thursday, bolstering ties to a key Pacific neighbour that has been courted persistently by China. Canberra pushed for a more substantive treaty earlier this year, but Papua New Guinea baulked because leaders feared it undermined the country’s “sovereign rights”. The salvaged agreement focuses on Papua New Guinea’s domestic security, as stretched police struggle to stamp out arms trafficking, drug […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 6, 2023 (AFP) – The US state of New Mexico filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Facebook and Instagram of being a “breeding ground” for predators who target children. The new suit comes less than two months after dozens of US states accused Facebook and Instagram owner Meta of profiting “from children’s pain,” damaging their mental health and misleading people about the safety of its platforms. In total more than 40 states are […]
WELLINGTON, Dec 7, 2023 (AFP) – Japanese car giant Nissan warned customers Thursday that its operations in Australia and New Zealand had been hit by a “cyber incident”. Nissan said it had notified the national cyber security centres in both countries, while the company’s global response team assessed the scale of the attack. It was unclear whether any personal information had been accessed, the company said in a statement. “While the extent of the incident […]
– #BREAKING: According to our investigators at the scene, we have three deceased victims and one additional victim in critical condition at a local hospital. The suspect in this #ActiveShooter incident is also deceased. We will update as soon as we can with accurate information. https://t.co/h56jaYcFwg — LVMPD (@LVMPD) December 6, 2023 By Robin GREMMEL LAS VEGAS, Dec 7, 2023 (AFP) – Three people were killed and another seriously injured by a gunman […]
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Dec 6, 2023 (AFP) – Four Rohingya refugees were killed during a gunfight between two insurgent groups in Bangladesh, police said Wednesday, in the latest sign of deteriorating security in the country’s overcrowded relief camps. Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless and mainly Muslim minority, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar that is now subject to a UN genocide probe. The dozens of […]
By Adel Zaanoun GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Dec 6, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli forces were encircling southern Gaza’s main city on Wednesday, battling Hamas militants through streets and buildings in some of the most intense combat of the two-month war. The focus of the conflict has shifted into the besieged territory’s south following fierce fighting and bombardment that reduced much of the north to rubble and forced nearly two million people to flee their homes. […]
MANILA, Dec 6, 2023 (AFP) – Seventeen people died and 11 were injured when a passenger bus careered off a road on a “killer curve” and plunged down a mountain in the central Philippines, officials said Wednesday. The bus was travelling in Hamtic municipality in Antique province when the crash happened Tuesday afternoon, provincial disaster agency head Roderick Train told AFP. Seven people were in critical condition in hospital and four others were stable, Train […]
By Irwanda Saputra AGAM, Indonesia, Dec 6, 2023 (AFP) – Indonesian rescuers were searching on Wednesday for the final hiker who went missing after a volcano eruption that left 22 other people dead, but hopes were fading three days after the disaster. Mount Marapi on the island of Sumatra spewed an ash tower 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) — taller than the volcano itself — into the sky on Sunday as 75 people hiked […]
By W.G. DUNLOP WASHINGTON, Dec 6, 2023 (AFP) – Washington is facing an increasingly complex and dangerous crisis resulting from the Israel-Hamas war, which has sparked repeated militant attacks and drawn US military attention and assets back to the Middle East. The United States has deployed two aircraft carriers and other forces in a bid to deter a devastating region-wide conflict. But the current violence in the Middle East — while not rising to that […]
JERUSALEM, Dec 5, 2023 (AFP) – As Israel marked Tuesday the 60th day that nearly 140 hostages are held by Gaza militants, a group of former captives met the country’s prime minister to urge him to secure the release of those left behind. A one-week truce in fighting between Israel and Palestinian armed group Hamas saw 105 hostages return from the Gaza Strip, including 80 Israelis — mostly women and children — exchanged for 240 […]
BANGKOK, Dec 5, 2023 (AFP) – A double-decker coach smashed into a tree in southern Thailand, killing at least 14 people and injuring 32, police said Tuesday. The long-distance bus was travelling from Bangkok to the kingdom’s far south when it collided with the tree in coastal Prachuap Khiri Khan province on Monday night. Photos published in local media showed the front part of the bus split in two by the force of the crash, […]
MANILA, Dec 5, 2023 (AFP) – Seventeen people were killed when a passenger bus careered off a road and plunged down a mountain in the central Philippines, an official said Wednesday. The bus was travelling on an “accident-prone” section of road in Hamtic municipality in Antique province when the crash happened Tuesday afternoon, said Roderick Train, head of the provincial disaster agency. Seven people were in critical condition in hospital and four others were stable, […]
