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by Francesco FONTEMAGGI Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States – The Nobel committee spurned an opportunity to celebrate the Iran nuclear deal, but still found a way to send a message to US President Donald Trump. Trump is a stern critic of the 2015 accord, and US officials say that he intends to tell the US Congress next week that Tehran is not honoring its side of the bargain. He is also engaged in a perilous game of brinksmanship […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s central government representative in Catalonia apologised Friday on behalf of police to people injured when officers tried to stop them voting in the region’s independence vote. “I can do nothing but regret it, apologise on behalf of the officers who intervened,” Enric Millo, the central government representative in Catalonia, said in a television interview.
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has put off until Tuesday a session in the regional parliament at which some leaders have called for an independence declaration, a regional government spokesman said Friday. “Puigdemont has requested to appear before parliament on Tuesday to discuss the current political situation,” a regional government spokesman said. The announcement comes a day after Spain’s Constitutional Court ordered the suspension of the session initially scheduled for Monday.
by Theo Merz Agence France Presse At least 16 people were killed on Friday when a train slammed into a bus that had broken down on a level crossing east of Moscow, authorities said. Uzbekistan’s foreign ministry said in a statement that 19 Uzbek citizens had died in the crash, but Russia’s Investigative Committee reported a lower figure. The accident occurred before dawn on Friday near the town of Pokrov, some 110 kilometres (70 miles) […]
CCTV — Two Chinese high-tech firms have recently released the world’s first quantum communication crypto cloud server, a breakthrough in the fast computing arena. The quantum cryptography or QC server is a collaboration between Dawning Information Industry Co. and CAS Quantum Co., which are affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The server features a quantum communication-based key management system, a secure operation platform and a cloud computing operating system developed to create urban and […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — At least 19 people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a train near the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow, regional authorities said Friday. “According to the latest information, 19 people have been killed,” the head of the regional health service, Alexandre Kiryukhin, told the TASS news agency. A statement from the regional interior ministry said all of the victims were on board the bus. © Agence […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — A Brazilian nursery school guard burned four toddlers and their teacher to death after spraying them with alcohol and setting them alight Thursday in an attack which horrified the nation. Dozens of people were also hurt in the blaze while the guard, who was reported to be mentally ill, died after succumbing to his own burn injuries. The tragedy occurred in a modest quarter of Janauba, a city of […]
by Marianne Barriaux Agence France-Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Asuncion Garcia sits on a bench in Barcelona anxiously reading a newspaper. She points to a graphic of the tumbling share price of CaixaBank, the biggest bank in Catalonia, a region which is threatening to split from Spain. “I have savings in CaixaBank, the little that I have saved up,” says the 68-year-old, originally from Leon in northwestern Spain but resident in Catalonia for over 50 years. She is […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The popular governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, Friday unveiled her policy platform to unseat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, pledging to scrap nuclear power by 2030 and freeze a planned tax hike. Koike, who has shaken up the sleepy world of Japanese politics with her new Party of Hope, aims to distinguish herself from Abe with her vow to phase out nuclear power in Japan, still haunted by the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock had booked a hotel room in Chicago during the hugely-popular Lollapalooza music festival, it emerged Thursday, raising the prospect he had been planning a large-scale attack for months. The Blackstone hotel, with rooms facing a downtown city park where the festival was held, said a man of the same name had a reservation there in August — just as hundreds of thousands were attending the four-day outdoor concert […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump will reveal his decision on the future of the Iran nuclear deal in the coming days, the White House said Thursday. “The president is going to make an announcement about the decision that he’s made on a comprehensive strategy that his team supports, and we’ll do that in the coming days,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Flying in the face of advice from some of his closest […]
by Marc Burleigh with Blanca Morel in Managua Agence France-Presse SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AFP) — A tropical storm sliding north along Central America Thursday has unleashed heavy rains killing at least nine people in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, with forecasters predicting it could strengthen into a hurricane headed for the United States. Costa Rica declared a national emergency as it struggled with mudslides, washed out roads and overflowing rivers. Schools, universities, government offices and banks across the […]
