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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Papua New Guinea will not force out the hundreds of refugees refusing to leave an Australian detention camp, a senior military official said Thursday, as the tense standoff entered the third day. The Manus Island detention center, established to hold and process asylum-seekers under Canberra’s strict immigration policy, was officially handed over to PNG’s navy on Wednesday. Authorities were due to close the camp Tuesday after it was declared unconstitutional by […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President Donald Trump called Wednesday for the man suspected of killing eight people in a New York City truck rampage to be put to death. “NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!” Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to the Islamic State jihadist group (Agence France-Presse).
by Veronique DUPONT Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – Blockbuster director Brett Ratner and the head of news at American radio station NPR were drawn into Hollywood’s widening sexual misconduct scandal Wednesday as more women came forward with stories of abuse. Actresses Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn have accused Ratner of sexual harassment, the Los Angeles Times reported, as A-lister Kevin Spacey faced fresh accusations over his own conduct with young actors. Henstridge […]
by Daniel BOSQUE Agence France-Presse DOSRIUS, Spain (AFP) – A month ago, residents of the Catalan village Dosrius were facing off against police in their struggle to break away from Spain. Now independence has been declared — but nothing, they feel, has been gained. Indeed, they have probably lost what they had. Spain’s central government has taken control of the region for the first time since the end of dictatorship in the 1970s. Catalonia’s separatist […]
YANGON ,Myanmar (AFP) – Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on her first visit to conflict-battered northern Rakhine State on Thursday, an official said, an unannounced trip to an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out by an army campaign. Suu Kyi, a nobel laureate who leads Myanmar’s pro-democracy party, has been hammered by the international community for failing to use her moral power to speak up in defence […]
by Pierre ROCHICCIOLI and Clare BYRNE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A French court will rule on Thursday whether the older brother of a jihadist who shot dead seven people, including three French soldiers and three Jewish children, in 2012 was complicit in the killings. The trial of Abdelkader Merah, brother of Mohamed Merah, is the first arising out of a wave of violence by mostly homegrown radical Islamists that has claimed the lives of more […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Eight people died when an assailant acting in the name of the Islamic State group drove a pickup truck along a New York City bike path Tuesday in the city’s worst terror attacks since September 11, 2001. The following is an outline of what is known so far about the attack. – What happened – Shortly after 3 pm, a man identified as Sayfullo Saipov, 29 and […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British police investigating the deadly concert bombing in Manchester earlier this year said Wednesday they had requested the extradition of the attacker’s brother from Libya. Salman Abedi killed 22 people when he detonated a suicide bomb after a concert by pop star Ariana Grande, Britain’s worst terror attack in more than a decade. Manchester-born to Libyan parents, Abedi is believed to have travelled to Libya in the run-up to the May 22 […]
by Paula RAMON Agence France-Presse SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) – Only nine of 194 countries which pledged last year to eradicate hepatitis by 2030 are working towards that goal, according to figures revealed Wednesday at the second World Hepatitis Summit in Brazil. Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Japan, The Netherlands, Australia, Qatar and Brazil are the only countries taking steps to overcome the disease, a liver inflammation which kills 1.3 million people every year. The three-day summit […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – The British government came under pressure on Wednesday to publish papers detailing the potential impact of Brexit, after MPs appealed to a rare parliamentary power. The opposition Labour party tabled the “humble address” motion in which they called for the government to publish its assessment of 58 sectors, including tourism and nuclear. London’s Brexit department has so far refused to make their findings public, claiming that doing so could harm its negotiating […]
by Jennie MATTHEW / Thomas Urbain in Paterson Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – The Uzbek immigrant behind New York’s worst attack in 16 years confessed to acting in the name of the Islamic State group and “felt good” about the killings, having planned an assault for a year, investigators said Wednesday. The shocking details emerged after federal agents questioned Sayfullo Saipov in a Manhattan hospital, injured with a police bullet to the abdomen after […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States government on Wednesday approved a $1.1 billion deal to service Qatar’s F-15 fighter jets despite the diplomatic stand-off between the Gulf emirate and its neighbors. Qatar, home to one of the largest US military bases in the Middle East, is locked in a bitter dispute with Washington’s other Arab allies in the region, led by Saudi Arabia. US President Donald Trump took Riyadh’s side in June when Saudi Arabia, […]
