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UTAH, United States (Reuters) – A 4-year-old girl, London DeDios, went missing on Monday (May 29) after she had gone into the Provo River near Bridal Veil Falls, Utah County Police said. The child’s mother, Brenda, along with four adults reportedly jumped into the water in an effort to rescue the girl. Only three adults came out alive and the 34-year-old mother and Sean Thayne, 30-year-old bystander, were pronounced dead shortly after being pulled out […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) – China-funded Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) recently launched a joint speed test in which the train departed from Kenya’s Nairobi South to Emali Station, covering around 200 kilometers. The test comes just in time before the passenger train’s commission on June 1. The passenger train passed by the Athi River Station at the speed of 120 kilometers per hour (kph) which will also be its highest speed once the railway is […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea said on Tuesday (May 30) it had conducted a joint drill with a United States supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber after North Korea’s state media earlier accused the US of staging a drill to practise dropping nuclear bombs on the Korean peninsula. Moon Sang-gyun, a spokesperson for the South Korean defense ministry, said the exercise took place on Monday (May 29) but declined to give further details. Earlier on […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Severe Cyclone Mora hit Bangladesh Tuesday packing winds of up to 117 kilometers per hour (73mph) after authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from low-lying coastal villages. The storm made landfall on the coast between Cox’s Bazar and the main port city of Chittagong at 6:00 am (0000 GMT), the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said in a special weather bulletin. © Agence France-Presse
HAMERTON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – A female zoo-keeper died in a “freak accident” in a British zoo on Monday (May 29) after a tiger entered an enclosure, the BBC reported. The incident happened at Hamerton Zoo Park near Cambridge in the English midlands in the morning. Cambridgeshire Police said a tiger had entered an enclosure with a keeper and the female zoo keeper had died at the scene. Officers said the animal hadn’t escaped the […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a popular Baghdad ice cream shop, killing at least eight people, security officials said on Tuesday. The overnight attack in the Karrada district in central Baghdad also wounded at least 30 people, officials said. The Islamic State group-linked Amaq propaganda agency said the suicide bomber targeted a “gathering of Shiites.” IS considers members of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority to be heretics and frequently carries […]
by Damien Stroka Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany unleashed a volley of criticism Monday against United States President Donald Trump, slamming his “short-sighted” policies that have “weakened the West” and hurt European interests. The sharp words from Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel came after Trump concluded his first official tour abroad which took him to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Brussels and then Italy for a G7 summit. They followed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s warning on […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Fourteen civilians were killed late Monday when Islamic State group jihadists shelled a government-controlled neighborhood of Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor city, a monitor said. Three children were among the dead in the regime-held Al-Joura district, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “The shelling hit just before families were gathering to break the Ramadan fast,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. Besieged by IS since early 2015, the regime-controlled third […]
FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) — Former world No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods was arrested in South Florida early Monday (May 29) on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to an online Palm Beach County Police report. Woods, who is second on the all-time list with 14 major titles, was booked at 7:18 a.m. (1118 GMT) and released several hours later on his own recognizance, the report showed. Representatives for […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea confirmed its test-firing of a precision-guided ballistic missile was “successful,” the state-run news agency KCNA reported Tuesday, a day after the projectile landed in waters provocatively close to Japan. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un supervised the launch of the “new-type precision guided ballistic rocket” — the third missile test by the nuclear-armed regime in less than three weeks and carried out in defiance of United Nations sanctions warnings […]
by Hervé Asquin / Clare Byrne Agence France Presse VERSAILLES, France (AFP) — France’s President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin sought to improve their countries’ strained ties Monday during talks at Versailles palace the French leader described as “extremely frank.” Their first meeting since Macron took office provided another test of the Frenchman’s diplomatic skills after his memorable vice-grip handshake last week with United States President Donald Trump. This time, the handshake […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – A shallow, 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit inland on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi Monday, United States seismologists said, causing people to panic but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The quake hit at a depth of nine kilometers (six miles) at 10:35 pm (1435 GMT), west of the town of Poso, according to the US Geological Survey. Muhammad Guntur, who lives on the outskirts of the town, said […]
