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GWA, Myanmar, May 11, 2023 (AFP) – Myanmar and Bangladesh deployed thousands of volunteers and ordered evacuations from low-lying areas on Thursday as the Bay of Bengal’s first cyclone of the year approached. Cyclone Mocha is forecast to make landfall on Sunday along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, according to India’s meteorological office, packing winds of up to 175 kilometres (108 miles) per hour. The office predicted a storm surge of between two and two and a […]
WELLINGTON, May 11, 2023 (AFP) – A 7.6-magnitude earthquake rattled the Pacific island nation of Tonga in the early hours of Thursday but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The quake struck at 1602 GMT about 100 kilometres (60 miles) off Tonga’s remote volcanic island of Niuatoputapu at a depth of 210 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. There was no tsunami risk, it said. “We had calls early in the morning […]
LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – Southeast Asian nations vowed Wednesday tougher action on human trafficking as criminals increasingly use social media and other online platforms to recruit and exploit victims. International alarm is growing over internet scams in the region that are often staffed by trafficking victims tricked or coerced into promoting bogus crypto investments. Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have emerged as “countries of destination” for victims, according to the International Organization […]
By Joseph Prezioso with Chris Lefkow in Washington GOFFSTOWN, United States (AFP) – A combative Donald Trump made a rare live appearance on longtime adversary CNN on Wednesday, repeating his false claims about the 2020 election, hurling insults and mocking a former magazine columnist he was found liable of sexually abusing and defaming. Trump, during a one-hour “town hall” on the cable television network that he regularly denounced as “fake news” while in the White […]
PARIS, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – The Pompidou Centre in Paris, one of the world’s top modern art museums, will shut down for refurbishment for five years from 2025, France’s culture minister said Wednesday. The Pompidou houses work by artists from Pablo Picasso to Wassily Kandinsky and welcomed more than three million visitors last year. But its ground-breaking “inside out” structure by architects Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, that displays pipework on the outside, has […]
MANILA, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – A 71-year-old American man has been arrested after the body of his Filipina girlfriend was found in a water drum at the couple’s home near the Philippine capital, police said Wednesday. Police in Bacoor city told AFP they arrested the man on Tuesday after discovering the 48-year-old woman’s body inside a blue plastic drum sealed in a garbage bag and duct tape at the house just outside Manila. Officers […]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – Israel’s army and Gaza militants traded heavy cross-border fire Wednesday, with 20 Palestinians killed over two days amid the worst escalation of violence to hit the coastal territory in months. Smoke billowed from the densely-populated coastal enclave after Israel announced it was targeting rocket launch sites of the militant group Islamic Jihad. Gaza’s health ministry said five people were killed, a day after Israeli strikes on […]
HANOI, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – Vietnam’s state electricity company warned on Wednesday that the national power system would come under strain this summer due to anticipated heatwaves, days after the country recorded its highest ever temperature. Temperatures surpassed 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit) in central Vietnam over the weekend, according to national forecasters, breaking a previous high set in 2019. State utility EVN said in a statement that demand for electricity in the […]
BROWNSVILLE, United States, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – The United States on Wednesday was readying its response to an expected surge of migrants seeking to enter, with officials saying 24,000 law enforcement personnel have been deployed to the Mexican border. President Joe Biden has acknowledged that the border will be “chaotic for a while” with the expiration of Covid pandemic rules that had forbidden virtually all asylum claims there. Tens of thousands of people are […]
TUNIS, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – Two worshippers participating in an annual Jewish pilgrimage to a renowned Tunisian synagogue and two members of the security services were shot dead Tuesday in an attack carried out by a police officer, the interior ministry said. Four other visitors to the Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba and five more security officers were wounded in the attack before the assailant was also killed, the ministry said. In […]
By Paula RAMON EL PASO, United States, May 10, 2023 (AFP) – The US border with Mexico will be “chaotic for a while,” President Joe Biden acknowledged Tuesday, days before pandemic-era rules that have made claiming asylum at the frontier all but impossible are due to end. Tens of thousands of people are massing at border crossing points awaiting the expiration of Title 42 overnight Thursday into Friday. Thousands have already entered the United States, […]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — The Israeli army said it killed three leaders of the Islamic Jihad militant group Tuesday in air strikes on Gaza, which left a dozen dead according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory. The ministry said that women and children were among the dead, publishing a list of names without ages or detailing any affiliations. An AFP journalist in Gaza saw the top of a building on fire […]
