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SHAH ALAM, Malaysia — Only a small amount of nerve agent — but more than enough to kill him — was found on the face of the North Korean leader’s half-brother after he died in agony following an airport attack, a court heard Tuesday. Kim Jong-Nam had 0.2 milligrams of VX per kilogram of body weight on his facial skin, well above the typical lethal dosage, chemist Raja Subramaniam told the trial of two women accused of […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Thailand will hold elections in November 2018, junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha said Tuesday, a date that will fall more than four years after he seized power in a coup. Immediately after his 2014 putsch Prayut promised to return power to civilians within 18 months. But that date has repeatedly slipped, and even after the vote critics say there will be limits on democracy. “In November 2018 there will be an election. Is it clear?” the […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A Sukhoi military jet crashed while preparing for take off from Russia’s Hmeimim base in Syria on Tuesday, killing the crew, Russian news agencies quoted a military spokesman as saying. “The Su-24 plane rolled off the runway and broke up while accelerating for takeoff… The plane’s crew did not have time to eject and died,” the spokesman said.
by Alexandre Marchand Agence France-Presse THANKHALI, Bangladesh (AFP) – The United Nations launched one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh Tuesday amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living there. Thousands of Rohingya men and women lined up in intense heat at makeshift health centers on Tuesday, many with young children in their arms, to receive the oral vaccine against the disease. The […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. The tremor hit 70 kilometers (43 miles) east of the coastal city of Arica, which is near the border with Peru, the US agency said. The quake struck at a depth of 82 kilometers, it added. Chile is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries. In the past seven years, it has had three quakes of a […]
by Jérôme Rivet Agence France-Presse FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron takes his push for deeper European integration to Germany Tuesday, where he and Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the world’s largest book fair in Frankfurt. In his landmark speech on the future of Europe last month at the Sorbonne university in Paris, Macron stressed that “culture will always be the strongest cement of the European Union.” France is this year’s guest of honor […]
by Hiroshi Hiyama Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo’s popular governor Yuriko Koike launched a bitter attack on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday as the gloves came off for the official start of a snap election campaign in the world’s third-largest economy. Conservative premier Abe, 63, is facing an unexpected and fierce challenge from the media-savvy Koike, who has upended the sleepy world of Japanese politics with her upstart “Party of Hope.” Addressing hundreds of commuters at […]
Mississippi, USA (CCTV) — Hurricane Nate is now a tropical depression, after it hit the American Gulf Coast on Oct 8. The storm brought strong winds, heavy rains, and surged from Florida to Louisiana. One of the hardest hit cities is Biloxi in the state of Mississippi, with the coastal region suffering the most as winds reached 136 kilometers an hour. The storm moved rapidly through the Gulf of Mexico, flooding many casinos dotting the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock was a compulsive player of video poker who took the anxiety drug Valium, CNN reported on Monday. The report gave new details about the background of the 64-year-old who, on October 1, gunned down 58 people and wounded almost 500 for reasons which investigators still have not been able to fathom. Paddock said in a 2013 court deposition that he was “the biggest video poker player in […]
by Mark Mclaughlin Agence France-Presse GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AFP) — The Scottish National Party on Monday urged the Spanish government to “respect the overwhelming ‘si’ vote” in the Catalan independence referendum in a resolution at its annual conference. Members unanimously passed the motion, which called the banned referendum earlier this month an “expression of the democratic will of the people of Catalonia.” The motion also called on the UN and the EU to resolve the political impasse over […]
by Josh Edelson Agence France-Presse NAPA, United States (AFP) — Raging wildfires in California’s wine country have claimed at least 10 lives and forced thousands to flee, authorities said Monday. Fanned by winds surpassing 50 miles (80 kilometers) an hour, the blazes have forced more than 20,000 people to evacuate in the country’s heaviest populated state since they began Sunday night. California’s fire service said about 73,000 acres (30,000 hectares) have been ravaged by the […]
by Daniel Silva and Diego Urdaneta Agence France-Presse BARCELONE, Spain – Catalan leaders came under intense domestic and international pressure Monday to halt plans to break away from Spain after the region’s president repeated his threat to declare independence and the government warned it would act to block it. The sides dug in as the clock ticked down to a Tuesday evening session in the regional parliament where separatists have called for an independence declaration, a plan that […]
