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DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Qatar announced Thursday changes to its anti-terror legislation, one of the controversial issues at the core of the crisis between Doha and its neighbors who accuse it of backing extremists. The decree from Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani establishes two national lists for individuals and terrorist entities and sets out the requirements for being included on them. It also defines terrorists, terrorist crimes, terrorist entities as well as the financing of terrorism. […]
HANGZHOU CITY, China (CCTV) — Two people have been killed and 55 others injured in a gas blast in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, on Friday morning, according to local police. The sudden blast occurred after 08:30 at a noodle restaurant in a residential community, resulting in a heavy fire and shattering windows of nearby vehicles. More than 20 passengers on a bus that was in range of the blast were injured. […]
by Veronique Dupont and Sonia Bakaric in Theologos BODRUM, Turkey (AFP) — At least two people were killed on the Greek island of Kos Friday when a magnitude-6.7 earthquake shook the popular summer resort holiday destinations of the Dodecanese Islands in Greece and the Aegean coast of Turkey. The epicenter of the quake was approximately 10.3 kilometers (6.4 miles) south of the major Turkish resort of Bodrum, a magnet for holidaymakers in the summer, and 16.2 kilometers east […]
MARIPOSA COUNTY, California (Reuters) — A raging wildfire in central California that has forced more than 5,000 people from their homes spread rapidly on Thursday (July 20) after destroying dozens of buildings not far from Yosemite National Park, fire officials said. The Detwiler Fire, which is menacing the former gold rush town of Mariposa in the Sierra Nevada foothills, is only 10 percent contained, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rattled southwestern Turkey and the nearby Greek Dodecanese Islands early Friday, the United States Geological Survey said. The temblor struck at 1:31 am (2231 GMT Thursday) at the epicenter, which was approximately 10.3 kilometers (6.4 miles) south of Bodrum, Turkey and 16.2 kilometers east of Kos, Greece. It had a depth of 10 kilometers, USGS said. © Agence France-Presse
by Javier Tovar with Chris Lefkow in Washington Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Disgraced American football legend O.J. Simpson, whose 1995 acquittal for double murder polarized the nation, was granted his release from prison Thursday after serving nearly nine years behind bars for armed robbery. A four-member parole board in the western United States state of Nevada voted unanimously to free the 70-year-old Simpson after a tense public hearing broadcast live […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Thursday shook hands with one of Japan’s high-tech robots, a humanoid candidate to carry the torch as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Johnson, kicking off a trip to Japan, visited the robotic centre at Waseda University, which works closely with Britain’s University of Birmingham on robotic technologies. He witnessed a demonstration of WABIAN II, which resembles a tiny astronaut that Waseda hopes will make […]
by Omar Hasan Agence France Presse KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) — Kuwait on Thursday expelled Iranian diplomats and closed some embassy missions after the emirate’s top court convicted a “terror” cell of links to the Islamic republic, prompting Iran to threaten reciprocal measures. Sunni-ruled Kuwait, which has a sizeable Shiite minority, is trying to mediate an end to the Gulf’s worst crisis in years after regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia and its allies cut ties with […]
By Philip Toledo EBC Florida Bureau ALABAMA, United States (Eagle News) – Fresh off the heels of acquiring the first Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) owned property in the state of Alabama, the INC members continued the series of firsts in this state with the first worship service in an INC-owned building and the first outreach program based from that location. Prior to the worship service, INC members took to the streets of the surrounding neighborhood […]
SHIMLA, India (AFP) — At least 28 people were killed Thursday after a bus plunged into a deep gorge in a Himalayan region of northern India popular with tourists, police said. The accident occurred around 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the hill resort of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh state, said police superintendent Soumiya Sambasivan. “(Twenty-eight) people have died and seven are injured. All the bodies have been identified,” she said. The bus was taking around 40 […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Hundreds of refugees being held at a remote Papua New Guinea detention camp will be moved by October despite uncertainty over a resettlement deal with the United States, Australia’s immigration minister said Thursday. Canberra sends asylum-seekers who try to enter the country by boat to camps on Nauru and PNG’s Manus Island, with those found to be refugees barred from resettling in Australia. They are instead relocated to third countries, or resettled elsewhere in PNG. But the sudden withdrawal from PNG […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump’s eldest son and a former campaign manager will testify before Congress next week as part of US investigations into the Trump team’s alleged contacts with Russia, a Senate panel announced Wednesday. Donald Trump Jr and Paul Manafort are scheduled to testify in an open hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday at 10 am (1400 GMT). Both men attended a controversial meeting with a Russian […]
