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ATHENS, Greece (AFP) – Greek police on Friday sought to determine how a letter bomb wounded former prime minister Lucas Papademos despite security checks that were allegedly beefed up after a wave of similar attacks in March. “We want to determine whether security procedures were followed,” a police source told AFP, hours after Papademos and two guards were injured by the bomb that exploded as they rode in an armoured car in Athens. “The fact […]
by Jerome Cartillier Agence France-Presse TAORMINA, Italy (AFP) – United States President Donald Trump said Friday the “problem” of an increasingly belligerent North Korea would be “solved,” as he met his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe just before the start of the G7 summit. “It’s a big problem, it’s a world problem,” he said in the Sicilian town of Taormina, just weeks after he called North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un a “madman with nuclear weapons.” The […]
TAORMINA, Italy (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed leading the fight against terrorism on Friday (May 26) as they met at this year’s Group of Seven (G7) summit, hosted in the chic Sicilian resort town of Taormina. May is expected to leave a day early, following Monday’s (May 22) suicide bombing at a concert in northern England that killed 22 people and was allegedly carried out by a […]
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (Reuters) – British police arrested a man on Friday (May 26) in the Manchester suburb of Moss Side, the tenth person to be taken into custody in connection with Monday night’s attack. Television images aired on Friday showed the aftermath of a raid conducted earlier in the week in the same suburb. Greater Manchester police said in a tweet that eight men are now in custody after a man and a woman […]
by Kiki Siregar Agence France-Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – Indonesian authorities have arrested three suspects over a twin suicide bombing on a Jakarta bus terminal that killed three policemen and which has been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, an official said Friday. The elite anti-terror squad working with regular police Thursday detained two men in Bandung on Java island and a third in the nearby area of Cimahi, and their houses were now […]
BADEN-BADEN, Germany (Reuters) – Former United States President Barack Obama said on Thursday (May 25) he was concerned about how technology advances had made it easier for people to “retreat into our own bubbles.” Speaking in the southern town of Baden-Baden after receiving a German media prize, Obama said “democracies do not work if we are not operating on some level based on reason and fact and logic – and not just passion. We’re going to […]
YANG JIANG, China (CCTV) — A grandma from northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province challenged people’s concept of the elderly people’s lifestyle and became an internet hit by parachute-jumping from an altitude of 4,000 meters. Zuo Shufen, nearly 70 years old, flew to south China’s Guangdong Province with her granddaughter to experience skydiving during this year’s Labor Day Holiday. “My granddaughter suggested parachute-jumping last year, so this year I went with her without telling my son. I felt quite […]
CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) – The United Nations called on the international community to solidify its actions to better cope with disaster relief amidst global pressures from climate change, Amina Mohammed, deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, told media in Cancun on Thursday (May 25). Speaking on the sidelines of the Global Platform For Disaster Risk Reduction Conference, she said substantial progress was being made in order to better protect people and cut losses from natural […]
ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) – Greek politicians including a former prime minister visited on Thursday (May 25) the hospital where former premier Lucas Papademos was taken after being injured when a booby-trapped package exploded in his car in central Athens, the worst act of violence targeting politicians in the crisis-hit country for several years. Papademos, who served a brief stint as caretaker prime minister in late 2011 to mid-2012, did not have life-threatening injuries, authorities said. […]
Stockton, United States (Reuters) – A large fire at a wood pallet yard in Stockton, California, was threatening some homes and gutted several vehicles in a residential neighborhood on Thursday (May 25). Aerial video from the local NBC News affiliate showed portions of the pallet yard ablaze as fire crews worked to battle the fire which burned adjacent to a residential neighborhood. The affiliate said the four-alarm fire prompted some evacuations in downtown Stockton and […]
DOHA , Qatar (Reuters) – Qatar has launched an investigation into a cyberattack against its official state news agency, an official said on Thursday, after the news agency was hacked. The website of the news agency was hacked early Wednesday morning by hackers who posted a false statement attributed to the country’s Emir, Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al-Thani, which seriously deviates from Qatar’s foreign policy. In addition, the Twitter account of the head of the […]
SIGONELLA, Italy (Reuters) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Sicily for his second Group of Seven (G7) meeting on Thursday (May 25). Italy chose to host the summit in Taormina, on the cliffs of eastern Sicily, to concentrate minds on Europe’s migrant crisis and to seek ways of developing Africa’s economy to hold back the human tide. The six-year old Syrian conflict and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are other hot-button issues. Potential disagreements […]
