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MOSCOW, May 7, 2023 (AFP) – Evacuations from the front line around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant prompted safety warnings from the UN nuclear watchdog on Saturday, as a string of recent strikes escalate predictions of a looming spring counteroffensive. Moscow has blamed Kyiv — and its Western supporters — for an escalating number of long-range attacks and sabotage operations, including on the Kremlin. A car bomb on Saturday wounded prominent nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin […]
OTTAWA, May 7, 2023 (AFP) – Alberta announced a state of emergency on Saturday as 103 wildfires flared across the Canadian province, forcing 25,000 people to flee their homes in what a top official said was an “unprecedented” crisis. Thousands more have been told to be ready to leave on a moment’s notice. “We’ve declared a provincial state of emergency to protect the safety, health and welfare of Albertans,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told a […]
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2023 (AFP) – A shooter opened fire at an outlet mall north of Dallas, Texas on Saturday, and emergency officials confirmed fatalities and said at least nine wounded people were rushed to area hospitals. Some of the victims were as young as five years old, CNN reported. A police officer was in the mall on an unrelated call when gunfire broke out around 3:30 pm (2030 GMT), said chief Brian Harvey of […]
LONDON, May 6, 2023 (AFP) – Charles III was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms on Saturday at Britain’s first coronation for 70 years, during a ceremony steeped in a millennium of ritual and spectacle. Charles, 74, became the oldest sovereign yet to be crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey, after a lifetime as heir to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II. At 12:02 pm (1102 GMT), Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby […]
GENEVA, May 5, 2023 (AFP) – The Covid-19 pandemic, which for over three years has killed millions of people, wreaked economic havoc and deepened inequalities, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the WHO said Friday. It is “with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency”, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, estimating that the pandemic had killed “at least 20 million” people — nearly three times the under […]
TOKYO, May 5, 2023 (AFP) – A powerful earthquake struck central Japan on Friday, leaving at least one person dead and 21 injured, as rescuers searched for another trapped under rubble after several houses collapsed. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the central Ishikawa region in mid-afternoon at a depth of 12 kilometres (seven miles), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Weather officials warned residents of possible aftershocks and landslides in the days ahead but said […]
BELGRADE, May 5, 2023 (AFP) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic vowed on Friday to launch a large-scale disarmament plan to remove hundreds of thousands of guns from the country, following back-to-back mass shootings in the Balkan country this week. “We will do an almost complete disarming of Serbia,” Vucic said during a live broadcast, hours after the latest shooting killed eight people. The president said the plan aimed to remove hundreds of thousands of […]
TOKYO, May 5, 2023 (AFP) – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck central Japan on Friday, forcing the suspension of bullet train services, but no tsunami warning was issued, authorities said. The quake hit the central Ishikawa region at 2:42 pm (0542 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Shinkansen bullet trains were suspended between Nagano and Kanazawa, a popular tourist destination, according to Japan Railway. There were […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — Guatemalan authorities evacuated hundreds of people and closed a road as Central America’s most active volcano erupted Thursday, spewing thick clouds of ash over farms and towns not far from the capital city. Some 350 people were evacuated from communities near the foot of the volcano, civil protection official Rodolfo Garcia told AFP. Guatemala’s Conred disaster center said the volcano named Fuego, Spanish for “fire,” was sending out “pyroclastic flows” […]
By Paul HANDLEY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A peace deal to end Armenia and Azerbaijan’s three-decade-old dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave is “within reach” after four days of talks in Washington, US top diplomat Antony Blinken said Thursday. The discussions between Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov did not result in a deal to end the territorial conflict between the two ex-Soviet republics, but Blinken said progress […]
By Miodrag SOVILJ Agence France-Presse BELGRADE, Serbia (AFP) — Serbia was in mourning on Thursday a day after a 13-year-old suspect shot dead eight fellow students and a security guard after allegedly drawing up a kill list. The tragedy has left the Balkan nation reeling. Gun violence at schools is extremely rare in Serbia and the country’s president called Wednesday’s shooting “one of the most difficult days” in recent history. On Thursday, schools across Serbia […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump described his rape accuser as “mentally sick” in a videotaped deposition that was played for jurors in his sexual assault and defamation civil trial Thursday. “She’s a liar and she’s really a sick person. I think she’s sick, mentally sick,” Trump said of former American columnist E. Jean Carroll. He made the comments in October when he sat for a deposition in Carroll’s lawsuit against the ex-president. […]
