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BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany recorded more than 3,500 attacks against refugees and asylum shelters last year, according to new interior ministry figures, amounting to an average of nearly 10 acts of anti-migrant violence a day. The assaults — coinciding with the country’s bid to cope with a record influx of newcomers — left 560 people injured, 43 of them children, the ministry said in a written reply to a parliamentary question. The government “strongly […]
(Reuters) — A man drove into a crowd standing by a bakery in the southwestern German town of Heidelberg on Saturday (February 25), killing one and injuring two people, but a police statement said there were no signs that it was a terrorist attack. Police said a 73-year-old German man died in hospital after being seriously injured and the two other people who were injured – a 32-year-old Austrian man and a 29-year-old woman […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia and Indonesia announced the full restoration of military ties Sunday as the countries’ leaders held talks following a brief spat over teaching material deemed offensive to Jakarta. Indonesia had reported the suspension of all military cooperation with Australia from December before clarifying that only language training had been put on hold. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said after two hours of talks that he and Indonesian President Joko Widodo had […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A suspected drunk driver plowed a pickup truck into a Mardi Gras parade Saturday in New Orleans, leaving 28 people injured, including children, officials said. “At this time it appears that it’s a subject who was highly intoxicated, who struck a number of vehicles and then veered off hitting a whole bunch of innocent people,” New Orleans Police Chief Michael Harrison told reporters. Seven of those injured declined to go […]
New York, New York – Count Harvard women’s team among the elite not only academically but on the indoor track and field at the 2017 Ivy League Heptagonal (Heps) Indoor Track and Field Championships. Held at the Armory in the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City, and home of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, the heavily favored Lady Crimson finished the two-day championship with an astonishing 126 points to become the […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The US space agency said Friday it is considering putting astronauts on an upcoming test flight of the deep space capsule Orion as it aims to orbit the Moon. Orion is being built with an eye to one day ferrying astronauts to Earth’s neighboring planet, Mars, perhaps by the 2030s. Until now, the Orion test flight known as Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) was scheduled for 2018 and was expected to […]
by Nazeer al-Khatib with Rana Moussaoui in Beirut Agence France Presse AL BAB, Syria (AFP) — An Islamic State group suicide bomber killed 51 people outside Syria’s Al-Bab on Friday, in a major blow just hours after rebels seized the town from the jihadists. In a statement distributed online, the group said its suicide bomber “drove his car bomb into the middle of a gathering of Turkish soldiers and apostates working in Susian”. At least […]
by Alice Ritchie Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party defeated UKIP’s leader in a Brexit bastion, but in a second by-election suffered a landmark defeat to Prime Minister Theresa May’s governing Conservatives on Friday. The results saw the Brexit-championing UK Independence Party fail to capitalise on the June referendum vote to leave the European Union. But while Labour celebrated fending off UKIP’s bid to replace them in […]
by Hugues HONORÉ Agence France Presse OSLO, Norway (AFP) — UN aid agencies and donor countries gathered in Oslo on Thursday for a two-day meeting to raise emergency aid for millions of people threatened by famine in northeastern Nigeria, a Boko Haram stronghold. The UN aims to raise up to 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in commitments throughout 2017 for the Lake Chad region, which comprises northeast Nigeria, northern Cameroon, western Chad and southeast Niger. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (Reuters) –United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday (February 23) he wants to ensure the US nuclear arsenal is at the “top of the pack,” saying the country has fallen behind in its atomic weapons capacity. In a Reuters interview, Trump also said China could solve the national security challenge posed by North Korea “very easily if they want to,” ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to exert more influence to rein in […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) –South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been impeached by parliament over her role in an influence-peddling scandal linked to her friend Choi Soon-sil, and now awaits a Constitutional Court review of that decision. The court has said it will conclude oral arguments on Monday (February 27). It has not said when a verdict will be delivered but, according to past practice, a decision could be reached after about two weeks. If […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea denounced its chief ally and diplomatic protector China for “dancing to the tune of the (United States)” after it banned coal imports in apparent punishment for a missile launch. Beijing and Pyongyang have a relationship forged in the blood of the Korean War, but ties have begun to fray in recent years, with China increasingly exasperated by its wayward neighbor’s nuclear antics. Last week it announced the suspension […]
