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By Sergio Blanco PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Oct 11, 2023 (AFP) – Hurricane Lidia made landfall Tuesday on Mexico’s Pacific coast as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm, threatening to bring flooding and mudslides, forecasters said. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said earlier that civil protection personnel were on alert and around 6,000 members of the armed forces had been deployed to help residents. Lidia came ashore near the popular beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, packing […]
By Montira Rungjirajittranon and Chayanit Itthipongmaetee BANGKOK, Oct 10, 2023 (AFP) – The families of Thai labourers held hostage by Hamas spoke Tuesday of their fears for their safety, after the Palestinian militant group threatened to execute civilian captives in its war with Israel. At least 18 Thais have been killed and 11 seized since Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday. Hamas dragged off around 150 people as hostages in its attack, […]
Dozens of foreigners have been killed, injured or taken hostage during a surprise attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas that has left 900 people dead in Israel. Many of the missing foreigners were at an electronic music festival in the southern Israeli desert, at which scores of revellers were massacred. Here is what we know so far: – Thailand: 18 dead, 11 hostages – Eighteen Thais have been killed, nine have been […]
By Danny KEMP WASHINGTON, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – President Joe Biden said Monday that Americans are likely being held hostage by Palestinian militant group Hamas after its surprise attack on Israel, and that at least 11 US citizens were killed in the assault. Hamas dragged off about 150 hostages in its weekend onslaught on southern Israel from Gaza, an attack that a senior US defense official said involved “ISIS-level savagery”. Hamas threatened on Monday […]
By Jay Deshmukh with Adel Zaanoun in Gaza City JERUSALEM, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – Palestinian militant group Hamas, which dragged off about 150 hostages in its surprise weekend assault on southern Israel, threatened on Monday to kill them if Israeli air strikes continue “targeting” Gaza residents without warning. The threat came after Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, cutting off the water supply which sparked UN fears of an increasingly dire […]
The scale of terror and brutality against #Israel and its people is a turning point. There can be no business as usual. As the biggest donor of the Palestinians, the European Commission is putting its full development portfolio under review, worth a total of EUR 691m⤵️ — Oliver Varhelyi (@OliverVarhelyi) October 9, 2023 BRUSSELS, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – The EU has halted development aid payments to the Palestinians and is placing 691 million euros […]
HAMBURG, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – Germany’s Hamburg airport said it had resumed service about 90 minutes after halting traffic following a threat against an Iranian flight Monday. “Flight service has resumed,” the airport said on its website after earlier stopping all takeoffs and landings over the threat received by email. “There may still be flight delays.”
MOSCOW, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that creating a Palestinian state was the “most reliable” solution for peace in Israel and that fighting terrorism alone would not ensure security. He spoke during a press conference with the head of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, who visited Russia after the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched a massive surprise attack on Saturday. Creating a “Palestinian state that would live […]
By Romuald NKONLAK YAOUNDÉ, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – At least 27 people have been killed after heavy rains caused a section of a hillside covered in precariously built houses to collapse in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde. Rescuers were still searching for victims on Monday after the landslide happened in the district of Mbankolo, northwest of Yaounde, on Sunday evening. Landslides are frequent during the rainy season in the city of nearly three million people, where […]
By Mohsen KARIMI HERAT, Afghanistan, Oct 8, 2023 (AFP) – The death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan rose sharply on Sunday to more than 2,000, the Taliban government said, as bodies continued to be pulled from demolished villages and buried in mass graves. More than 1,300 homes were toppled when Saturday’s magnitude 6.3 quake — followed by eight strong aftershocks — jolted hard-to-reach areas 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of the […]
By Jonah Mandel JERUSALEM, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – Shocked volunteers spoke on Monday of their horrific work recovering the bodies of up to 250 young Israeli and foreign party-goers gunned down by Hamas militants at a usually joyful music festival near the Gaza border. Thousands of music-lovers had danced through the night at the Supernova festival in a remote area of southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip. But the revellers turned […]
PARIS, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – Dozens of foreigners have been killed, injured or taken hostage during a surprise attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas Saturday that has left 700 people dead, mostly Israelis. Many of the missing foreigners were at a desert music festival, where scores of revellers were massacred. Here is what we know so far: – Thailand: 12 dead, 11 hostages – Twelve Thai labourers were killed, eight were […]
