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SINGAPORE, Nov 8, 2023 (AFP) – Beijing is ready to hold talks with the United States at “all levels”, China’s vice president said Wednesday ahead of an expected summit in San Francisco between leaders Xi Jinping and Joe Biden next week. Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng said recent high-level meetings between Beijing and Washington were sending “positive signals” that relations were improving. “We’re ready to strengthen […]
WASHINGTON, Nov 8, 2023 (AFP) – A distant cousin of rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley failed to shake up the race for governor in the US state of Mississippi on Tuesday, conceding the election to his Republican rival, US media reported. Democrat Brandon Presley had spent six years as mayor of Nettleton — a small town in northeastern Mississippi just a few miles from the birthplace of the King — before running for governor. His prospects […]
By Anuj Chopra and Caroline Taix Quiet sobs during memorial speeches, mourning crowds lighting candles… Israel fell silent briefly on Tuesday, marking one month since the deadly Hamas attacks of October 7 plunged it into war. At Jerusalem’s Hebrew University around 1,000 people observed a minute of silence and recited prayers for the 1,400 killed, mostly civilians, in the worst attack on Israel since its founding in 1948. “The atrocities left a horrible mark,” said […]
SYDNEY, Nov 8, 2023 (AFP) – Nationwide outages hit a major Australian communications company Wednesday, disrupting phone lines, crashing payment systems and impacting millions of customers. Optus said it was scrambling to restore its mobile and internet services to more than 10 million customers across Australia. Company chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin told national broadcaster ABC there was “no indication” the outage was the result of hacking or a cyber attack — but that engineers […]
ISMAILIA, Egypt, Nov 6, 2023 (AFP) – The Rafah crossing between the bombarded Gaza Strip and Egypt reopened Monday to allow the evacuation of foreigners, dual nationals and wounded Palestinians, the Hamas government and an Egyptian official said. The terminal was opened for three days on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week to allow dozens of wounded Palestinians and hundreds of foreign passport holders to cross before closing Saturday and Sunday amid a dispute over […]
By Andréa BAMBINO NEW YORK, Nov 6, 2023 (AFP) – Donald Trump testified in a New York court on Monday in the civil fraud case threatening to cripple his real estate empire, the first former US president to take the stand as a defendant in more than a century. The 77-year-old Trump, dressed in a dark blue suit and tie with an American flag on his lapel, was sworn in shortly after 10:00 am (1500 […]
By Oliver HOTHAM with Jing Xuan TENG in Shanghai BEIJING, Nov 6, 2023 (AFP) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Monday that their countries could become “trusting partners”, pledging to work with Canberra on everything from regional security to climate change as the two leaders eased years of tensions that cut billions of dollars in trade. Beijing is Canberra’s biggest trading partner, but relations plummeted in 2020 after Australia’s then-conservative […]
BEIJING, Nov 6, 2023 (AFP) – A senior Chinese diplomat has urged Myanmar to “cooperate” in maintaining stability on their shared border, Beijing said Monday, after armed groups fighting the junta seized a strategic trading outpost. Assistant Foreign Minister Nong Rong visited Myanmar from Friday to Sunday, Beijing said, holding talks with senior junta officials on clashes the UN said have forced 23,000 people from their homes. “Myanmar is called on to cooperate with China […]
HELSINKI, Nov 6, 2023 (AFP) – Finnish authorities said Monday that a Russian telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea was discovered damaged in October, roughly coinciding with damage to subsea infrastructure in Sweden and Finland. “The Russian salvage vessel Spasatel Karev began to repair Rostelecom’s Baltika telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland on November 6,” Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs said in a statement. The ministry was informed of the damage to the Baltika […]
NAIROBI, Nov 6, 2023 (AFP) – More than 1.6 million children aged under five will suffer from malnutrition next year in South Sudan, following a surge in waterborne diseases due to flooding, the UN’s World Food Programme said Monday. The world’s newest nation has endured deadly conflict, natural disasters, economic malaise and relentless political infighting since it won independence from Sudan in 2011. As flooding becomes an annual affair in some parts of the country, […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Joe Stenson in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 5, 2023 (AFP) – Israel said Sunday it was pounding Gaza with “significant” strikes after cutting it in two, as America’s top diplomat pressed a Middle East tour focused on humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. Israeli forces “have encircled Gaza City… Now there exists a south Gaza and a north Gaza”, army spokesman Daniel Hagari said. Shortly before the strikes, internet and […]
HAMBURG, Nov 5, 2023 (AFP) – An armed father who took his four-year-old daughter hostage, forcing the suspension of flights at Hamburg airport, gave himself up “without resistance” on Sunday after hours of negotiations, German police said. The 35-year-old man had barricaded himself and the child in his car at the foot of a Turkish Airlines plane on Saturday evening, demanding to be allowed on board after a custody dispute with the mother. He had […]
