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by Jean-Philippe Lacour HALTERN AM SEE, Germany (AFP) – Germany’s most populous state goes to the polls on Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party aiming to extend a winning streak that could seriously damage her rival before national elections. One in five German voters — 13.1 million — will cast ballots in North Rhine-Westphalia, a sprawling industrial area with a big migrant population which has been a Social Democratic Party (SPD) stronghold for 17 years. But […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States Central Intelligence Agency said Wednesday it had formed a special unit dedicated to assessing North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat. The CIA created its first single country-focused mission center, pulling together resources from a range of units to collect and analyze information on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missile technology that could extend its military threat across the Pacific. The move comes as North Korea appears poised […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – An earthquake early Thursday killed at least four people in a remote area of northwest China’s Xinjiang region, state media reported. The shallow 5.4-magnitude quake struck at 5:58 am (2158 GMT Wednesday) 213 kilometers (133 miles) south-southwest of the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the United States Geological Survey said. Xinhua news agency said four people had been confirmed dead and some injured were sent to hospital. The remote and […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday (May 10) it hopes South Korea pays attention to its security concerns after South Korea’s new liberal President Moon Jae-in was sworn in. Moon said in his first speech as president he would immediately begin efforts to defuse security tensions on the Korean peninsula and negotiate with Washington and Beijing to ease the row over the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system being deployed […]
by Damian Wroclavsky Agence France-Presse CURITIBA, Brazil (AFP) – Brazil’s leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva emerged defiantly Wednesday from almost five hours of testimony in a corruption trial that threatens to destroy his storied career. Arguably the country’s most popular and controversial politician, Lula is accused of receiving a seaside apartment as a kickback from the OAS construction company. If found guilty, he could be barred from running for office and even jailed, […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) – Libya’s coastguard on Wednesday intercepted a wooden boat packed with almost 500 migrants after duelling with a German rescue ship and coming under fire from traffickers, the navy said. The migrants, who were bound for Italy, were picked up off the western city of Sabratha, said navy spokesman Ayoub Qassem. The German non-governmental organization “Sea-Watch tried to disrupt the coastguard operation… Inside Libyan waters and wanted to take the migrants, on the […]
These kids in Bonn, Germany hand out copies of the PASUGO or God’s Message magazines, as well as pamphlets of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) during the Europe Day observance on May 6, 2017. The kids even managed to get the attention of this man on stilts and wearing a costume in Bonn, and were not overwhelmed at all by the height difference. (Photo by Gemma Tropel, Eagle News Service, Germany)
(Agence France Presse) — A man arrested near the British parliament last month was involved in bomb-making in Afghanistan in 2012, it was alleged Wednesday as he appeared in court on terrorism charges. Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali, 27, was arrested not far from Prime Minister Theresa May’s office on April 27, in possession of three knives, London’s Westminster Magistrates Court heard. He is charged with preparing terrorist acts relating to that incident, and faces two […]
LONDON, United Kingdom – World stock markets and the dollar wobbled on Wednesday, shaken by overnight news that United States President Donald Trump has fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey. In late morning European equity trade, Paris dipped 0.1 percent in value and Frankfurt flatlined, while London clawed its way 0.2 percent higher. The US dollar remained under pressure, having tumbled to a six-month euro low after Trump ousted Comey late on Tuesday. Asian […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Supporters of Jakarta’s non-Muslim governor staged a colorful rally outside city hall Wednesday a day after he was jailed for blasphemy, in a case that has damaged Indonesia’s image as a bastion of tolerant Islam . A crowd wearing red and white — the colors of the Indonesian flag — gathered outside the colonial-era building calling for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama’s release, and singing the country’s national anthem. “Let’s fight for justice,” […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – The public are being asked to name a rare albino orangutan rescued in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, with conservationists saying she has become an “ambassador” for the threatened species. The white-haired, blue-eyed Bornean orangutan was saved in Kapuas Hulu district last month from villagers who had been keeping her in a cage. The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation, which is caring for the critically endangered ape, says it is […]
(AFP) — Terrorists are planning to kidnap foreigners on a Philippine island popular with tourists, the United States embassy has warned, a month after a foiled abduction attempt by Islamic militants at another tourism hotspot. An advisory from the US embassy in Manila on Tuesday warned Americans to “carefully consider” going to Palawan, naming a World Heritage-listed underground river as one area of specific concern. “The US Embassy has received credible information that terrorist groups […]
