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By Sara HUSSEIN Agence France-Presse HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 18, 2023 (AFP) – On August 6, 1945, four-year-old Masao Ito was riding a tricycle near his home in Hiroshima when a bomb fell from the sky and changed his life forever. He survived the US nuclear attack and made it home to his mother, but the horror was just beginning. His father, at work closer to the center of the western Japanese city, searched the […]
By Paola LOPEZ, Santiago PIEDRA SILVA Agence France-Presse QUITO, May 17, 2023 (AFP) – Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso issued a decree on Wednesday dissolving the legislature as he fought for his political future following impeachment proceedings in parliament over alleged corruption. The decree released abruptly by the unpopular conservative president’s office states that Lasso is dissolving the opposition-led National Assembly “due to a grave political crisis and national commotion.” In dissolving congress, Lasso called on […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday vowed that the United States would hold accountable the perpetrators behind a deadly attack on a US convoy in Nigeria which he said had been involved in a flood response. No group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack in Nigeria’s southeast Anambra State, but an outlawed separatist group has been blamed for repeated raids on police and security services in the region. “We […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada called for foreign help Wednesday to combat wildfires burning out of control and spreading across vast swathes of the western half of the country. The fires that have devastated the oil-producing Alberta province have in recent days spread to neighboring British Columbia and Saskatchewan as well as the Northwest Territories. Some 2,500 firefighters from across Canada backed by 400 military personnel have been deployed across Alberta to try to tame […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Russia and Ukraine agreed Wednesday to extend a deal allowing grain exports across the Black Sea, a rare example of cooperation as the war rages and one of Kyiv’s valuable Patriot anti-missile systems was confirmed to be damaged. The grain deal was welcomed by the United Nations and United States, though both called for more certainty over the exports as Russia has threatened to end the pact, which is crucial to […]
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AFP) – Four Indigenous children missing for more than two weeks after a plane crash in the Colombian Amazon have been found alive, President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday, declaring “joy for the country.” Petro shared the news on Twitter, saying the children were discovered after “arduous search efforts” by the military. Authorities had deployed more than 100 soldiers with sniffer dogs to search for the minors who were traveling in an airplane that […]
NEW YORK, May 17, 2023 (AFP) – Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle were involved in a “near catastrophic car chase” involving paparazzi in New York, a spokesperson for the couple said Wednesday. The incident happened on Tuesday night after Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, attended an awards ceremony in America’s financial capital. Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland was with them in the vehicle, the spokesperson said in a statement emailed to AFP. “Last night, The […]
PARIS, May 17, 2023 (AFP) – A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld a prison sentence of three years, including two suspended, against former president Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling. The court ruled he should serve a one-year detention sentence at home with an electronic bracelet and banned him from public office for three years over his attempts to secure favours from a judge in a case uncovered by wiretapping. Sarkozy is France’s […]
BRUSSELS, May 17, 2023 (AFP) – The EU said on Wednesday it feared the takeover by South Korean flag-carrier Korean Air of smaller troubled rival airline Asiana could restrict competition on routes between Europe and South Korea. Korean Air in late 2020 said it would buy out Asiana for $1.6 billion at the time as the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on the worldwide aviation industry, grounding planes. The European Commission, the bloc’s powerful anti-trust authority, […]
NEW DELHI, May 17, 2023 (AFP) – Climate change made record-breaking deadly heatwaves in Bangladesh, India, Laos and Thailand last month at least 30 times more likely, according to a study published Wednesday. Parts of India saw temperatures above 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) in mid-April, with at least 11 deaths near Mumbai attributed to heat stroke on a single day. In Bangladesh, Dhaka suffered its hottest day in almost 60 years. The city of […]
GENEVA, May 17, 2023 (AFP) – It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned Wednesday as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring. There is a two-thirds chance that at least one of the next five years will see global temperatures exceed the more ambitious target set out in the Paris accords on limiting climate change, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2023 (AFP) – Fallen US biotech star Elizabeth Holmes must begin serving prison time after a judge denied her latest request to remain free while appealing her fraud conviction. Holmes was sentenced to just over 11 years in prison for defrauding investors with her Silicon Valley start-up Theranos. She was scheduled to begin serving prison time on April 27, but her lawyers lodged a last-minute appeal on procedural issues after an […]
