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(Eagle News Sevice, Africa Bureau) —Zambia’s United Party for National Development leader Hakainde Hichilema said he is attributing the stampede that occurred at the Olympic Youth Development Center on Monday morning (March 6) to high levels of poverty and hunger in the country. Hichilema said that what happened at the OYDC was a clear indication of the extreme hunger suffered by the Zambian people. “It is with a heavy heart that we wish to […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Wednesday called on North Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the US and South Korea halting military wargames, to avoid what it called a “head-on collision.” “To defuse the looming crisis on the (Korean) peninsula, China proposes that as a first step, the DPRK may suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the halt of the large-scale US-ROK exercises,” Foreign Minister Wang […]
by Fulya OZERKAN Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — The top generals of the Turkish, Russian and US military met Tuesday in a bid to step up coordination in Syria and avoid clashes between rival forces in the fight against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. The meeting between Turkish Chief of Staff Hulusi Akar, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford and Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov appears to […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife set off a social media firestorm Tuesday, the eve of International Women’s Day, by suggesting that men should be celebrated too. “As we mark International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate the boys and men in our lives who encourage us to be who we truly are, who treat girls & women with respect,” Sophie Gregoire Trudeau wrote on her Instagram account. She posted a photo of […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Embattled French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon received an interest-free, undeclared loan of 50,000 euros ($53,000) from a billionaire friend in 2013, according to the Canard Enchaine weekly. The conservative candidate “did not deem it necessary” to report the loan from Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere to a state transparency watchdog, the weekly said in its edition to appear Wednesday. The investigative and satirical newspaper, the source of the fake jobs scandal that […]
by Carsten HAUPTMEIER wih Frank ZELLER in Berlin Agence France Presse WURZBURG, Germany (AFP) — Facebook clinched victory Tuesday in a German court case brought by a Syrian refugee whose selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel had made him the target of racist trolls. The court ruled that the US social media giant was not obliged to actively search out and delete defamatory posts, like those that had falsely linked the claimant to Islamist attacks and […]
by Paul HANDLEY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) –The CIA can turn your TV into a listening device, bypass popular encryption apps, and possibly control your car, according to a trove of alleged documents from the US spy agency released Tuesday by WikiLeaks. The group posted nearly 9,000 documents it said were leaked from the Central Intelligence Agency, in what it described as the largest-ever publication of secret intelligence materials. WikiLeaks claimed that […]
by Tony Gamal-Gabriel with Ammar Karim in Baghdad Agence France-Presse MOSUL, Iraq – Iraqi forces said Tuesday they had seized the main government offices in Mosul and its famed museum as they made steady progress in their battle to retake the city’s west from jihadists. The advances, which also included the recapture of three neighbourhoods, were announced on the third day of a renewed offensive against the Islamic State group in west Mosul — the […]
by James MANNION Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The American Civil Liberties Union and others are already lining up to challenge President Donald Trump’s revised ban on refugees and travelers from six mainly Muslim countries. But can they succeed in overturning a measure that was deliberately crafted to remove the red flags raised by US courts? That may be more difficult. This time there is unlikely to be a backdrop of airport chaos […]
by Isambard WILKINSON Agence France-Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – North Korea and Malaysia Tuesday banned each other’s citizens from leaving their countries, with Kuala Lumpur saying its nationals were effectively being held “hostage” in a row over the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam. The extraordinary tit-for-tat moves came as the reclusive North faced growing international condemnation for a volley of missiles it fired into the Sea of Japan, defying stringent global sanctions aimed at halting its weapons […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Pyongyang is banning all Malaysian citizens from leaving North Korea, state media said Tuesday, potentially holding them hostage amid an increasingly heated diplomatic row over the killing of Kim Jong-Nam in Kuala Lumpur. “All Malaysian nationals in the DPRK will be temporarily prohibited from leaving the country until the incident that happened in Malaysia is properly solved,” the official Korea Central News Agency said, citing the foreign ministry. © Agence […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States military has begun deploying an antiballistic missile defense system to South Korea, following a string of missile tests by North Korea, the US Pacific Command said Monday. The announcement came after nuclear-armed North Korea on Monday launched four missiles which it said was part of training for a strike on US bases in Japan. Three of the missiles came down provocatively close to Japan. Deployment of the […]
