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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday that she wanted to end the anxiety of European Union nationals fearful of their future after Brexit, promising to protect their rights and saying: “We want you to stay.” But she was heckled by critics in the House of Commons, while opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said her plan was “too little, too late.” The futures of 3.2 million EU citizens living […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) –Donald Trump hailed Monday’s Supreme Court ruling which partially reinstates the United States president’s travel ban targeting citizens from six mainly Muslim countries as a victory for national security. “Today’s unanimous Supreme Court decision is a clear victory for our national security,” Trump said in a White House statement. “It allows the travel suspension for the six terror-prone countries and the refugee suspension to become largely effective. As president, I cannot allow […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The United States supplier of cladding encasing London’s Grenfell Tower before it was destroyed by a devastating fire announced on Monday it was stopping sales of the material for high-rise buildings. “Arconic is discontinuing global sales of Reynobond PE for use in high-rise applications,” a company spokesman told AFP. The firm put the decision down to “issues that have arisen in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy” and differences […]
CHINA (Reuters) – A vehement rainstorm collapsed 367 houses, leaving 90, 000 people homeless in central China’s Hunan Province. Started early on Thursday morning (June 22), the torrential rain was the most violent one that has ever hit the province this year. By the end of Sunday (June 25), it battered 50 cities, counties and regions, left more than 1.62 people in predicament and causing a direct economic loss estimated at 1.99 billion yuan. The […]
MOGUER, Spain (Reuters) – Hundreds of firefighters worked through the night from Sunday (June 25) to Monday (June 26) to contain major forest fires in southern Spain that forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people from homes, campsites and hotels. The blaze was spotted on Saturday night in the Moguer region near Huelva and was being treated as a level 1 – or maximum threat – by emergency services. Authorities on Monday said the […]
PAKISTAN (Reuters) – Death toll has risen to 153 from the oil tanker fire that broke out in the Bahawalpur district of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province Sunday morning, rescuers said. The number of deaths may rise further as about 40 out of the about 100 injured people are in critical conditions, according to an official of local hospital. A total of 75 motorbikes and six vehicles, including a traffic police vehicle, were burnt out in […]
VISE, Belgium (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters formed a human chain on Sunday (June 25) to demand the closure of two Belgian nuclear reactors, Tihange and Doel. Organisers said they were aiming to form a chain between Tihange reactor in Belgium to Aachen in Germany, and said some 50,000 people attended the chain, less than the 60,000 they said were needed to cover the 90 kilometres between the two cities. The core tanks at the […]
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – An oil tanker crashed and exploded on a road in Pakistan on Sunday (June 25), killing at least 146 people, many of whom were collecting leaking fuel before it ignited, government officials and rescue workers said. The speeding tanker overturned on a sharp bend on a highway on the outskirts of the city of Bahawalpur. The driver lost control when the vehicle blew a tyre, a provincial government spokesman said. Shahabaz […]
BOGOTA, Columbia (Reuters) – Eight people from a little-known urban guerrilla group have been arrested in connection with a bombing last week at an upscale mall in the Colombian capital Bogota, the police said on Saturday (June 24). Three people were killed and eight wounded when an explosive detonated in a women’s restroom at the Andino shopping center on June 17. Four men and four women, members of The People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP) rebel group, […]
SICHUAN PROVINCE, China (Reuters) – Rescue workers in southwestern China pulled bodies out of piles of rock and mud on Sunday (June 25) as they searched for 93 people missing after a landslide buried a mountain village, with some residents giving up hope of finding survivors. A huge landslide crashed down on the village of Xinmo, in mountainous Sichuan province, as dawn broke on Saturday. Authorities at the scene said on Sunday that 10 bodies […]
GUATAPE, Columbia (Reuters) – Nine people died and 28 are missing after a multi-decked tourist boat carrying about 170 passengers sank in Colombia’s Penol-Guatape reservoir on Sunday during the long holiday weekend, a government official said. Officials did not disclose the cause of the accident and provided few details. Videos posted on social media showed motorboats coming to the aid of passengers on the upper decks as the boat rocked from side to side. Ninety-nine […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — At least three people were dead and 30 were missing after a boat carrying some 150 tourists sank in a reservoir in northwestern Colombia on Sunday, police said. Officials did not indicate what caused the boat to sink in the El Penol reservoir in the tourist town of Guatape. “So far we have three people deceased” and “approximately 30 missing,” police commander Jorge Hernando Nieto said on BluRadio.
