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by Aaron Tam / Anthony Wallace Agence France Presse Macau, Macau (AFP) — The Chinese army on Friday joined relief efforts in Macau where at least nine people are now known to have died when a huge typhoon swept through the gambling hub. Around 48 hours after Severe Typhoon Hato smashed into southern China, worst-hit Macau was still picking up the pieces, with the enclave’s government facing recriminations over its lack of preparation. The government […]
BONDO VILLAGE, BREGAGLIA, Switzerland (Reuters) — Rescue crews continued to search on Thursday (August 24) for eight people including Germans, Austrians and Swiss who have been missing for more than a day after a landslide struck a remote Swiss mountain valley near the Italian border. Authorities evacuated around 100 people from the village of Bondo and airlifted hikers from nearby huts in the eastern canton of Grisons after rocks and mud hit the area on […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) – Thailand’s top court will rule later Friday whether ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra is guilty of criminal negligence, a verdict that could see her jailed and risks riling her family’s significant support base. Thailand’s first female prime minister, toppled by a military coup in 2014, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted and a life ban from politics. That outcome would be a heavy blow to the Shinawatra political dynasty, […]
by Leila Macor Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) – The state of Florida was set Thursday to execute its first death row inmate in nearly two years, and planning to administer a lethal injection cocktail that has never been used before in the United States. Mark Asay is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm (2200 GMT). The 53-year-old white inmate was sentenced to death in 1988 for a racially motivated double murder in […]
by Charlotte Van Ouwerkerk and Sophie Mignon Agence France-Presse ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) – Dutch police Thursday released a van driver arrested over a suspected terror attack plot on a Rotterdam concert venue but stepped up inquiries based on a “concrete” tip-off from Spain. “The man was freed earlier this evening and is no longer a suspect in the investigation,” Rotterdam police said in a statement. It remained unclear whether the tip-off by Spanish officials to […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) – Several United States cities began ordering evacuations Thursday as major storm Harvey was upgraded to hurricane status on its path towards hundreds of miles of coastline in Texas and Louisiana — an area that processes some 7 million barrels of oil a day. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that Harvey was “rapidly intensifying” and creating a potential for “life-threatening and devastating” floods. The storm’s center was due to […]
by Dave Clark Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – No fewer than 16 Americans were hurt in what has previously been dubbed an acoustic attack on the United States mission in Cuba, the State Department said Thursday. Officials are probing a series of incidents dating back to September last year in which diplomats are thought to have been hit with a mystery sonic weapon. The “unprecedented” attacks came to light last month when Washington […]
by Lucio Tavora with Paola Ramon in Sao Paulo Agence France-Presse SALVADOR, Brazil (AFP) – Two Brazilian ferry wrecks in as many days left at least 39 people dead, authorities said Thursday, as rescuers searched for several more who were still missing. “We deeply regret the loss of tens of lives in the boat accidents in Para and Bahia,” two states in the north of the country, President Michel Temer said on Twitter. Regional authorities […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,000, officials said Thursday, as rescue teams try to reach millions stranded by the region’s worst monsoon disaster in recent years. Thousands of soldiers and emergency personnel have been deployed across India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where authorities say a total of 1,009 bodies have been recovered since August 10 when intense rainfall started falling. Twenty-six bodies were found Wednesday […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Eight people, including German, Austrian and Swiss citizens, are missing following a landslide that forced the evacuation of several small villages in southeastern Switzerland on Wednesday, police said Thursday. “In the region of Val Bondasca, eight people who were there at the time of the landslide have not been found,” the Graubunden cantonal police said in a statement.
by Elaine Yu Agence France Presse MACAU, Macau (AFP) — The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 16 Thursday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China, blacking out Macau’s mega-casinos and battering Hong Kong’s skyscrapers. Eight died in the gambling hub of Macau, where local media showed cars underwater and people swimming along what are normally streets. The enclave’s famed mega-casinos were running on backup generators. […]
OURENSE, Spain (Reuters) — Firefighters on Tuesday (August 22) battled to control a forest fire in northern Spain which forced the closure of a highway. The fire raged in Monterrei close to the town of Verin in the region of Galicia, near the Portuguese border. The fire is still active and has so far burnt 20 hectares and forced electricity to be cut for an hour in Verin and the villages nearby. Nearby Portugal has […]
