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ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — All children in Syria’s battered Aleppo are suffering from trauma after enduring some of the worst violence in their country’s war, the UN children’s agency said on Sunday. “All children in Aleppo are suffering. All are traumatized,” Radoslaw Rzehak, UNICEF’s field office head in Aleppo, told AFP inside the devastated city. “I have never seen in my life such a dramatic situation (as) what is happening to children in Aleppo,” said […]
by Jim Mannion Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump dismissed a brewing storm over Russian cyber meddling in the US election, rejecting as “ridiculous” US intelligence reports that Moscow tried to help him win the White House. “I don’t believe it,” Trump said in a pre-recorded interview that was broadcast Sunday on Fox News. “I think it’s ridiculous,” Trump said, putting it down as an attempt by Democrats to find […]
by Rim Haddad with Rouba El Husseini in Beirut Agence France Presse ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — Syrian forces pushed forward in Aleppo Sunday as thousands fled rebel-held areas, but they lost ground to the south where the Islamic State group recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra. After a sudden regime withdrawal, IS jihadists made a lightning-fast advance across Palmyra, sparking new concerns for its remaining ancient treasures. Since mid-November, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad […]
by Paul Handley Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A secret CIA assessment has found that Russia sought to tip last month’s US presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor, The Washington Post reported Friday, a conclusion that drew an extraordinary rebuke from the president-elect’s camp. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” Trump’s transition team said, launching a broadside against the spy agency. “The election […]
(Eagle News) — The Iglesia Ni Cristo continues its fast spread in Africa, as it established a foothold in 16 countries in this dark continent in just this year alone. Under the leadership of INC Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo, two new chapels were dedicated and eight more are to be opened in 2017. Conversions and baptisms have been particularly aggressive in South Africa and Kenya. “This has been a particularly challenging year […]
by Jung Ha-Won Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean lawmakers on Friday voted to impeach President Park Geun-Hye, stripping away her sweeping executive powers over a corruption scandal and opening a new period of national uncertainty. The National Assembly ballot immediately transferred Park’s authority to the prime minister, pending a decision by the Constitutional Court on whether to ratify the decision and permanently remove the president from office. A ruling […]
by Park Chan-Kyong SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean lawmakers began voting Friday on an impeachment motion to strip President Park Geun-Hye of her sweeping executive powers over a corruption scandal that has paralysed her administration and triggered massive street protests. Members of the 300-seat national assembly cast anonymous, paper ballots that will be counted manually, with a two-thirds majority required for the motion to pass. “We have to make a historic decision while […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan has restarted one of its few operating nuclear reactors after a two-month safety checkup, despite still-heated debate over atomic power following the Fukushima disaster. The unit was shut down in October for inspections and maintenance under stricter rules brought in after a quake-sparked tsunami swamped the Fukushima plant in 2011, sending some reactors into meltdown and causing the worst nuclear disaster in a generation. Utility Kyushu Electric said it switched […]
ACEH PROVINCE, Indonesia (Reuters) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited injured residents in the quake area of Aceh province on Friday (December 9). Widodo met over 130 patients treated in Chik Ditiro Hospital in Pidie Jaya regency, reported Kompas TV. Wednesday’s (December 7) 6.5 magnitude quake has killed 102 people and injured over 700. Hundreds of buildings crumbled to the ground and thousands left homeless. The province of Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra […]
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) — Cuba and Russia signed new agreements in areas such as transport, technology and energy on Thursday (December 8) after the conclusion of the fourteenth meeting of its Intergovernmental Commission in Havana. The meeting was led by Russian Vice-President Dmitri Rogozin and Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Cuba’s Vice President of the Council of Ministers, who co-chairs the bilateral commission for economic-trade and scientific-technical cooperation. In total, Moscow and Havana signed seven legal instruments […]
by Haitham el-Tabei Agence France Presse CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — In an endless cacophony of car horns, Mostafa Ekram each day confronts the frenzy of Cairo’s traffic jams: pedestrians darting out into the street, swerving tuk-tuks and even donkey carts. At the wheel of his SUV, in the heart of Egypt’s bustling capital, he doesn’t bat an eyelid as he narrowly dodges a black tuk-tuk, a three-wheeled vehicle, driving in the wrong direction. It’s an […]
by Park Chan-Kyong Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, once known as the “Queen of Elections”, faced an act of attempted political regicide Friday as lawmakers gathered to vote on a motion calling for her impeachment. Engulfed by a corruption scandal that has transfixed the nation and paralysed her administration, Park must now confront the prospect of going down as the first democratically-elected South Korean president to be kicked […]
