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LOS ANGELES, July 16, 2023 (AFP) – Swaths of the United States home to more than 80 million people were under heat warnings or advisories Sunday, as relentless, record-breaking temperatures continued to bake western and southern states. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of “a widespread and oppressive heat wave” in parts of the Southwest, western Gulf Coast and southern Florida, with sizzling temperatures carrying into the coming week raising health risks for millions. Southern […]
ROME, July 16, 2023 (AFP) – Scorching weather gripped three continents on Sunday, whipping up wildfires and threatening to topple temperature records as the dire consequences of global warming take shape. Predictions of historic heat hung over swathes of Asia, Europe and the United States. In Japan, authorities issued heatstroke alerts to tens of millions of people in 20 of its 47 prefectures as near-record high temperatures scorched large areas and torrential rain pummelled other […]
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2023 (AFP) – A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the Alaskan peninsula late Saturday local time, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, briefly sparking a tsunami warning. The USGS revised the quake’s magnitude down from an initial 7.4. The shallow quake hit at 10:48 pm Saturday (0648 GMT Sunday), about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of the small town of Sand Point, the agency said. The National Tsunami Warning Center in […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A strike which had shut down ports along Canada’s west coast, including the country’s largest in Vancouver, has ended after 13 days of nationwide economic repercussions, negotiators announced Thursday. More than 7,000 terminal cargo loaders and 49 waterfront employers in 30 ports went on strike July 1, after months of failed negotiations. Port automation, the rising cost of living and outsourcing were the key issues behind the collective action led by […]
By Kang Jin-kyu Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the successful test of the country’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile, state media reported Thursday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down any US spy planes entering its airspace. A beaming Kim, flanked by his wife and key aides, was shown in state media images applauding enthusiastically after the launch of the solid-fuel Hwasong-18 on Wednesday. The ICBM, […]
By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS Agence France-Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Syria will let humanitarian aid flow through its main border crossing into rebel-held areas, reopening a conduit that had closed after a Security Council stalemate, the country’s UN ambassador said Thursday. Damascus has made a “sovereign decision” to let aid move overland from Turkey through the Bab al-Hawa crossing in northwest Syria for six months starting Thursday, ambassador Bassam Sabbagh told reporters. He said […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Economic cooperation and the disputed South China Sea will be on the agenda when Southeast Asian foreign ministers meet their Chinese, Japanese and South Korean counterparts for ASEAN-plus-three talks on Thursday. China will be represented at the talks by top diplomat Wang Yi instead of Foreign Minister Qin Gang after Qin pulled out for “health reasons”, according to the Chinese foreign ministry. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and his South Korean […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States called Wednesday for the reopening of the only road linking Armenia with the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. It also called on both Armenia and Azerbaijan to continue dialogue on ending their long-running conflict over Karabakh. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, the State Department said, one day after the country closed the so-called Lachin Corridor. Blinken “underscored the need for free […]
By Sergio Blanco Agence France-Presse GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AFP) — An explosives attack on a police patrol left six people dead and a dozen wounded in one of the regions of Mexico worst hit by drug cartel-related violence, authorities said Wednesday. “It’s an act of brutal terror,” said Enrique Alfaro, governor of the western state of Jalisco. The “cowardly attack” using seven improvised explosive devices targeted police and staff from the state prosecutor’s office in Tlajomulco […]
GOMA, DR Congo (AFP) — Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta, a mediator in the conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, appealed again on Wednesday for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. The former Kenyan president was speaking at a meeting in the eastern city of Goma in the conflict-torn region. “We are not here to open new negotiations,” he told journalists after having met the Congolese authorities, UN representatives and western diplomats. […]
REYKJAVIK, July 11, 2023 (AFP) – Despite warnings to stay away from Iceland’s latest volcanic eruption near Reykjavik, a group of curious visitors told AFP they couldn’t resist the lure of lava that is “orange like the sun”. While volcanologists say the eruption remains “low intensity” for now, initial estimates indicate that its flow is significantly more powerful than the two previous eruptions in 2021 and 2022 on the Reykjanes peninsula. “When the wind is […]
NEW DELHI, July 12, 2023 (AFP) – Days of relentless monsoon rains have killed at least 66 people in India, government officials said Wednesday, with dozens of foreign tourists stranded in the Himalayas after floods severed road connections. Flooding and landslides are common and cause widespread devastation during India’s treacherous monsoon season, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency and severity. Torrential downpours have washed away vehicles, demolished buildings and torn down bridges […]
