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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The woman at the center of South Korea’s corruption scandal, Choi Soon-Sil, was handed a three-year jail term Friday for bribery in the first of a string of criminal cases against her. A long-time friend of South Korea’s disgraced ex-president, Choi was found guilty of bribing professors to have her daughter admitted to Seoul’s prestigious Ewha Woman’s University and receive good grades, despite a poor attendance record. “The court sentences […]
by Briseida Mema and Rusmir Smajilhodzic Agence France-Presse TIRANA, Albania (AFP) – Albania votes in parliamentary elections on Sunday with hopes that a long tradition of polling fraud, violence and disputed results will come to an end and propel the country toward European Union membership. The Socialist Party of Prime Minister Edi Rama, 52, appears to have just a slight advantage over the center-right Democratic Party of Lulzim Basha, 43, according to opinion polls. After […]
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) – Parents of sick children who live near one of Peru’s oldest mining sites camped out in front of the health ministry in Lima for the eight day on Thursday (June 22) to demand help treating the impacts of mining pollution. Dozens of residents of Simon Bolivar, a district in the city of Cerro de Pasco in Peru’s central Andes, travelled to the capital Lima last week to demand the government declare […]
WYOMING, United States (Reuters) – Grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park will be stripped off Endangered Species Act safeguards this summer, United States Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced on Thursday (June 22), in a move conservation groups vowed to challenge in court. Dropping federal protection of Yellowstone’s grizzlies formally proposed in March 2016 under the Obama administration was based on the agency’s findings that the bears’ numbers have rebounded sufficiently in recent decades. The […]
(Reuters) – The man charged with stabbing an airport police officer in Michigan unsuccessfully attempted to purchase a gun before the attack, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal officials said on Thursday (June 22). The suspect, Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Quebec, Canada, has been charged in federal court with violence at an international airport for stabbing Jeff Neville, an officer at the Bishop International Airport in Flint, in the neck on […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – The government is urgently conducting safety checks on an estimated 600 high-rise buildings in England which have exterior cladding panels after at least 79 people are believed to have died when fire consumed a London tower block last week, officials said on Thursday (June 22). Workmen were seen removing cladding of a building in north London on Thursday that has been confirmed to have similar material used in Grenfell. Residents […]
MEXICO (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto asked the attorney general’s office on Thursday (June 22) to investigate charges the government spied on private citizens, saying he wanted to get to the bottom of the accusations that he also called “false.” Activists, human rights lawyers and journalists in Mexico filed a criminal complaint on Monday following a report that their smartphones had been infected with spying software sold to the government to fight criminals […]
LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) – Some 1,200 firefighters were mobilized on Thursday in the post-control and containment phase of firefighting operations in central Portugal, to avoid a repeat of the deadly forest fires that recently swept across the region, which killed 64 people and injured some 240 others. The devastating forest fires in Pedrogao Granda, some 150 kilometers northeast of the Portuguese capital city of Lisbon, that started on June 17 has now mostly been extinguished. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — European Union leaders on Thursday urged Internet firms to do their utmost to combat online extremism promoting attacks or face the possibility of legislation if the industry self-regulation fails. EU leaders meeting at a summit in Brussels increased the pressure on United States giants like Facebook and Twitter to rein in online propaganda amid a recent spate of terror attacks in Britain, France and Belgium. “We are calling on social media […]
PADDOCK WOOD, Kent (Reuters) — A leading British retailer has launched an innovative solution to the wasteful use of paper stickers on fresh produce. On Thursday (June 22) Marks and Spencer (M&S) began selling avocados marked with laser-etchings showing a best-before date and place of origin, in some United Kingdom stores. Charlie Curtis, the M&S senior produce agronomist, told Reuters the laser removes a single layer of skin without damaging the fruit. “It’s only taking […]
by Guy Jackson Agence France Presse PARIS, France — French President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Thursday set out a tough new anti-terrorism law that has already faced protests from civil rights groups. The proposals presented to the first meeting of a reshuffled cabinet appointed Wednesday are designed to allow the lifting of the state of emergency that has been in place since the November 2015 attacks in Paris. The state of emergency has been extended […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) — Venezuelan troops on Thursday (June 22) fired what appeared to be rubber bullets at protesters as they attacked the perimeter of an airbase, but a demonstrator was killed, bringing the death toll to at least 76 in unrest since April. At least two soldiers shot long firearms through the fence at protesters from a distance of just a few feet. One man collapsed to the ground and was carried off by other […]
