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NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) – Around 30,000 honey bees swarmed on a ledge at One Times Square, where the New Year’s Eve ball drop happens, in New York on Tuesday (June 27). Andrew Coté, a fourth generation beekeeper of andrewshoney.com, was called to the rescue and used a vacuum to suck up the bees. “The bees weren’t colonizing,” Coté said. “The bees were on a nearby hotel and they were probably not very well […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday (June 27) a police helicopter had attacked the Supreme Court in a ratcheting up of Venezuela’s political crisis, but a grenade tossed at the building did not explode. Speaking on state TV, the 54-year-old president, who has faced three months of opposition protests and some dissent from within government ranks, said that special forces were after the “terrorists” behind the attack. The helicopter had also […]
TAJURA, Libya (Reuters) — Red Crescent volunteers recovered the bodies of 24 migrants on Tuesday (June 27) that were washed up in an eastern suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, as large-scale rescues were made in the Mediterranean. Residents in Tajoura district said the bodies had begun washing up at the end of last week. Several had been partially devoured by stray dogs, according to a local coast guard official. The toll was expected to […]
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters)– New Zealand Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee met with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez in Havana on Tuesday (June 27) as part of an official visit to the Caribbean island to boost bilateral ties. New Zealand is one of the world’s strongest developed economies and is increasingly looking towards Latin America as an area to build on trade. Both Wellington and Havana have already cooperated on a series of ventures relating to the […]
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, best known for a leading role in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Swedish film series, died in Sweden on Tuesday (June 27) after a year-long battle with lung cancer, his representative said. He was 56. Nyqvist “passed away quietly surrounded by family” in Stockholm, his spokeswoman said in a statement that called him “one of Sweden’s most respected and accomplished actors.” Nyqvist rose to prominence as […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Newly appointed United States Ambassador to China Terry Branstad said on Wednesday (June 28) there is a need to work together with China on some pressing issues, such as North Korea and expanding trade. Branstad also told reporters in Beijing that the US would like to see Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who has late-stage liver cancer, receive treatment elsewhere if that would help. A former Iowa […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Dozens of people were injured Tuesday when two New York subway train cars careened off the tracks, leaving hundreds of people stuck for more than an hour, a fire department spokesman said. The incident — which occurred mid-morning on the A train line between two stations in Harlem in northern Manhattan — left 36 people with minor injuries, the spokesman told AFP. Evacuating everyone from the underground station […]
GOODWIN, ARIZONA, United States (Reuters) — A wildfire burning in Arizona’s Prescott National Forest has burned more than four thousand acres, forcing families to evacuate their homes. The Goodwin Fire is only five percent contained as of Tuesday afternoon (June 27). Forest officials say the fire is burning through heavy brush and timber in rugged terrain and windy conditions are spreading the flames. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s office is working with fire officials to evacuate […]
by Glenn Chapman Agence France Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook said Tuesday it now has two billion active monthly users, as the social giant’s founder Mark Zuckerberg highlighted his new mission — not just connecting people, but helping them find common ground. “As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially 2 billion people!” Zuckerberg wrote in a post marking the milestone. “We’re making progress connecting the world, and now let’s […]
by By Oleksandr Savochenko with Maria Antonova in Moscow and AFP bureaus Agence France Presse KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — A global wave of cyberattacks that began in Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday wrought havoc on government and corporate computer systems as it spread to Western Europe and across the Atlantic. Several multinational companies said they were targeted, including United States pharmaceutical giant Merck, Russian state oil giant Rosneft, British advertising giant WPP and the French […]
KIEV, Ukraine (Reuters) – A colonel in Ukraine’s military intelligence was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev on Tuesday (June 27), the defense ministry said, describing the incident as a “terrorist act.” Police said an explosive device in the vehicle blew up at 0516 GMT while the car was moving, killing the driver and wounding a passer-by. “As a result of (the explosion) a member of the defense ministry’s main intelligence department, Colonel […]
CHINA (Reuters) – More than 2,500 professional rescuers and 25 sniffer dogs are working against time to search for 93 persons still missing in a landslide in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. One-year-old sniffer dog named Gege is one of those. This is the dog’s first time to participate in a rescue operation. Once he finds possible signs of life, Gege, the dog’s handlers said, would bark at rescuers. Sniffer dogs like Gege are working for […]
