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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Colombia’s FARC rebels vowed Sunday they were committed to continuing peace efforts despite voters having rejected an accord between the force and the government to end their half-century conflict. The FARC maintains “its willingness to use dialogue as the only weapon for building the future,” the group’s leader Timoleon Jimenez said in a speech in Havana, Cuba, where the accord was negotiated. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
(Reuters) Abu Sayyaf rebels linked to Islamic State freed three more Indonesian captives on Sunday after a three-month ordeal, the Philippine government said, taking the number of hostages released to nine in the past two weeks. They were handed over in Sulu to Nur Misuari, founder of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), a Muslim rebel group that has signed a peace deal with the government. It was not clear whether a ransom was paid. […]
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will trigger the divorce process from the European Union by the end of March, firing the starting gun on the country’s biggest shift in policy since World War Two. May, appointed prime minister shortly after Britain voted in June to leave the bloc, has been under pressure from EU officials, investors and members of her Conservative Party to offer more on her plan for Britain’s exit, beyond […]
(Reuters) — The U.S. State Department on Friday (September 30) called “troubling” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s comments likening himself to Adolf Hitler and saying he would be happy to exterminate 3 million drug users. “America’s … partnership with the Philippines is … based on a mutual foundation of shared values and that includes our shared belief in human rights and human dignity,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. “President Duterte’s comments are a significant departure from […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — More than 3,800 civilians have been killed in one year of Russian air strikes in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad, a monitoring group said Friday as international outcry mounted. Assad’s regime and its key backer Russia are under growing pressure from world governments to halt a new offensive pounding rebel-held areas of the battleground city of Aleppo. More than 9,300 people have been killed in the Russian raids since September […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — US President Barack Obama arrived in Israel on Friday for the funeral of the last of its founding fathers, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres. Obama is among leaders from across the world arriving for Peres’s funeral at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl national cemetery, which begins at 9:00 am (0600 GMT). © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AFP) — Authorities have recovered 12 bodies in a western Mexican river near a lake popular among US tourists, as suspicion about the deaths turned toward two drug gangs on Thursday. Three bodies were found in the Lerma river on Thursday afternoon, after nine others were recovered in the first three days of the week, said Eduardo Almaguer, the top prosecutor in Jalisco state. “Twelve bodies have been found in the Lerma river […]
by Jocelyne ZABLIT LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A conservative Arizona newspaper is facing death threats and losing subscriptions after it broke with tradition by endorsing Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump for US president, a senior editor told AFP Thursday. The Phoenix-based Arizona Republic, the state’s largest newspaper, announced in an editorial on Tuesday that it is backing a Democrat for the first time since it was founded in 1890 on the grounds that […]
Britain’s Princess Charlotte, 1, spoke for the first time in public on Thursday (September 29) during her family’s Canadian tour, uttering the word “pop” while she and her brother played with balloons. Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, are on week-long trip to Canada. It was the first time the couple have brought their children Charlotte and George, 3, on an official visit to the country. The family was in Victoria, […]
The foreign ministers of Haiti and the Dominican Republic met in Santo Domingo on Thursday (September 29) to strengthen bilateral relations between the two neighbours which were strained after migrant deportations from the Dominican Republic a year ago. Last year, reportedly thousands of Haitians were sent back across the border after Dominican officials began implementing a controversial immigration programme against undocumented migrants, many of whom were from Haiti. Many of those who were deported or […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday ordered families of government personnel stationed in the Democratic Republic of Congo to leave amid fears about escalating violence, the State Department said. “The potential for civil unrest is high in parts of Kinshasa and other major cities,” it said, referring to the country’s capital in a statement. “As a result of the deteriorating security situation, family members of US government personnel have been ordered […]
Commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) offered an official apology on Thursday (September 29) for the 2002 Bojaya massacre where guerrillas killed 79 civilians. Visiting the church which was destroyed in the attack, just days after a peace agreement was signed with the Colombian government, FARC commander Ivan Marquez asked the local community for reconciliation. “We ask for you to forgive us and that you give us the hope of a spiritual […]
