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KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP) – by Bienvenu-Marie BAKUMANYA The UN rights chief on Thursday said DR Congo had used “excessive force” during deadly clashes with demonstrators in the capital and called on Kinshasa to reach out to the opposition to avert a “large-scale crisis” “The authorities need to pull back from their extremely confrontational position and build bridges with the opposition,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said in a statement issued in Geneva in the wake of […]
ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) – by Karam al-Masri with Maya Gebeily in Beirut Huge blazes erupted in Syria’s Aleppo as the city was rocked by fighting and air strikes Thursday, ahead of last-ditch efforts by world powers to salvage a failed ceasefire. Key players in the Syrian peace process were to meet in New York later Thursday, with the clock ticking down as the UN warned undelivered aid for desperate civilians in Aleppo would expire in […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan’s defence ministry has asked Google to blur images of a new development believed to be for military use on a disputed South China Sea island. Tensions remain high in the region over conflicting territorial claims, particularly over the strategically important Spratlys chain. Taiwan administers Taiping island, which is the largest in the Spratlys archipelago. The island chain is also claimed in part or whole by the Philippines, Vietnam and China. […]
by Shaun TANDON UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday demanded that the world find a new way to halt the threat from North Korea after the long-sanctioned regime’s nuclear and missile tests. Abe, addressing the UN General Assembly, said that calculations about North Korea needed to change after its latest actions including the state’s test of what it said was a miniaturized nuclear bomb for a warhead. “There […]
(REUTERS) CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The National Guard will intervene in Charlotte, North Carolina, where one person was shot and gravely wounded in a second night of unrest after the fatal police shooting of a black man. One person was shot and gravely wounded on Wednesday in a second night of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials said, as riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse unruly protesters after the fatal police […]
by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama is poised to veto legislation exposing Saudi Arabia to court action over the 9/11 attacks, stepping in to defend legal precedent and an awkward ally, but inviting election-time opprobrium. White House officials say Obama will reject the “Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act” by a Friday veto deadline, after a little over a week of deliberation. The administration is worried the bill — passed […]
Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte demanded on Wednesday (September 21) the European Union show him respect worthy of a president, despite giving the bloc a one-finger gesture and a vulgar four-letter rebuke after its legislators expressed concern about his drug war. Angered by last week’s call from the European parliament for restraint in his deadly 11-week crackdown, the former mayor of the southern city of Davao took aim for a second day at the European Union […]
Vietnamese authorities and wildlife conservationists struggle to contain the illegal trafficking of the pangolin as CITES is set to discuss the species status at its 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Johannesburg later this month. The pangolin, a nocturnal mammal covered with scales that resembles a cross between an armadillo and an anteater, is protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Pangolins can […]
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Wednesday (September 21) he expects an historic peace deal ending a half century of conflict between the Colombian government and leftist rebels to pass a plebiscite on October 2. Santos made the comments in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. He said he was confident in a positive outcome despite a push by former President Alvaro Uribe against the deal. “Of […]
Authorities in Charlotte, North Carolina, braced on Wednesday (September 21) for a possible second night of rioting triggered by the police killing of a black man who refused commands to drop a handgun that officers said he was brandishing. Protesters took the streets of Charlotte chanting “no justice, no peace” a day after sixteen police were injured overnight on Tuesday and one person was arrested as officers in riot gear clashed with demonstrators who hurled […]
Forty-three people died when a boat reportedly carrying almost 600 migrants capsized off Egypt’s coast on Wednesday (September 21), according to local officials. The boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Burg Rashid, a village in the northern Beheira province. Local officials in the area said 31 bodies had been found, 20 men, 10 women and one child. A Reuters correspondent later saw a fishing boat bring in 12 more bodies, bringing the total so […]
by Phil HAZLEWOOD, Aminu ABUBAKAR MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AFP) — Doctors crowded around Abdullahi. One squeezed a drip and another prepared a plastic syringe. The young boy didn’t move. Only the shallow rise and fall of his chest indicated he was still alive. Fluid was injected to try to stabilise the two-year-old’s blood sugar levels. “He’s better than he was 20 minutes ago,” said one doctor. “But his condition is still critical.” Abdullahi’s mother, Hadiza, perched […]
