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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Amnesty International said Tuesday the United States-led coalition was not doing enough to protect civilians in the battle to retake Iraq’s Mosul with cases of entire families killed in their homes. Iraqi authorities launched the battle to retake the second city from the Islamic State group in October with support from coalition air strikes, recapturing its eastern side from the jihadists in January. Amnesty’s Donatella Rovera said field research in east […]
PYONGYANG, North Korea (Reuters) — North Korea’s national airline, Air Koryo has started flying a new route to Dandong, China. A video given to Reuters by North Korea’s official news agency, KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed Air Koryo’s plane landing at Pyongyang’s Sunan Airport on Tuesday (March 28) and flight attendants greeting tourists walking out of the plane. KCNA said flights will operate twice a week – every Tuesday and Friday, between its […]
by Gina DOGGETT / Déborah CLAUDE Agence France Press PARIS, France (AFP) — Penelope Fillon, long a low-profile political wife, has been thrust into the spotlight with a scandal bearing her name — “Penelopegate” — that is dimming her husband Francois Fillon’s hopes of becoming France’s next president. She was charged Tuesday with complicity in the abuse of public funds in a case involving alleged fake jobs as a parliamentary aide to her conservative husband […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Satellite images taken this week suggest North Korea could be in the final stages of preparations for a new nuclear test, United States-based analysts said Tuesday. The images, taken March 25, show up to four vehicles or equipment trailers continuously present at the entrance to the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, with communications cables likely laid on the ground. “This equipment would likely be used to initiate the test, collect data […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Energy giant Exxon Mobil has asked the Donald Trump administration not to scrap United States participation in the landmark Paris climate agreement, running counter to White House moves on carbon emissions. The news came as Trump on Tuesday unveiled a new executive order that could roll back some of the previous Democratic administration’s policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. In a March 22 letter to Trump energy […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump declared the end of a “war on coal” Tuesday, as he moved to curb rules that underpin American emissions targets and a major global climate accord. Following through on an election promise, Trump signed an order to review some of his predecessor Barack Obama’s climate legacy, declaring an end to “job-killing regulations.” In a maiden trip to the Environmental Protection Agency, […]
by Mark MCLAUGHLIN / Rosie SCAMMELL Agence France-Presse EDINBURGH, United Kingdom – Scotland’s parliament voted Tuesday to back First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s call for a second independence referendum, another headache for Prime Minister Theresa May as she battles to keep the country united just a day before triggering Brexit. The vote by lawmakers in Edinburgh was 69 in favour and 59 against despite May’s last-minute appeals. “I hope the UK government will respect the will of […]
by Ben Simon Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland – Over 300 civilians have been killed since last month in an offensive against the Islamic State group in western Mosul, the UN said Tuesday, adding the toll could exceed 400 if fresh killings are verified. “According to information verified by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, at least 307 people were killed… between 17 February and 22 March,” the UN rights […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Salvage workers who raised South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry may have found the remains of a missing victim of the disaster, the maritime ministry said. The ministry said in a statement it would hold a briefing later Tuesday on “finding human remains suspected to be one of the missing victims.”
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Leading South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, who was one of Nelson Mandela’s closest colleagues, died early Tuesday aged 87, Kathrada’s charity foundation said. Kathrada was among those tried and jailed alongside Mandela in the Rivonia trial in 1964, which drew worldwide attention and highlighted the brutal legal system under the apartheid regime. Kathrada spent 26 years and 3 months in prison, 18 of which were on Robben Island.
AYR, Australia (AFP) — Cyclone Debbie made landfall in northeast Australia Tuesday, with lashing rain and howling winds battering the area as local towns went into lockdown. The category four storm — on a scale of five — began crossing the Queensland state coast, packing destructive wind gusts of up to 270 kph (167 miles) near its wide core, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
by Maria PANINA and Gabrielle TETRAULT-FARBER Agence France Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 15 days behind bars and fined Monday after staging the biggest anti-corruption protests in years, an act branded a “provocation” by the Kremlin. The United States and the European Union voiced deep concern after Navalny and more than 1,000 others were detained in the Moscow protest on Sunday, with the State Department calling the […]
