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WASHINGTON, United States — The Biden administration on Thursday warned that superpower rival China would “love” to see Washington fail to extend the national debt ceiling and push the country into the “chaos” of default. “They love to see chaos in the American system,” senior White House economics official Shalanda Young told reporters. “They love to see that we can’t do our basic jobs.” Republicans in Congress and President Joe Biden’s Democrats are running out […]
NEW YORK, May 4, 2023 (AFP) – New York prosecutors are investigating the death of a homeless man put in a chokehold by a fellow rider on the city’s subway, in an incident that has sparked outrage. The death of Jordan Neely — who US media identified as a Michael Jackson impersonator who often performed on the train — was caught on camera and has angered homeless advocacy groups. The incident also touches on two […]
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2023 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden on Thursday said weeks of urban fighting in Sudan “must end” and authorized potential new sanctions against those responsible for the bloodshed. “The violence taking place in Sudan is a tragedy — and it is a betrayal of the Sudanese people’s clear demand for civilian government and a transition to democracy,” he said in a statement. “It must end.” Clashes between rival factions began on […]
OSLO, May 4, 2023 (AFP) – A Norwegian humanitarian organisation said Thursday seven South Sudanese delegates who attended a peace conference were killed in two of its cars, while three of its employees escaped unharmed. “We strongly condemn the attack on civilians and humanitarian aid workers,” the head of Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), Dagfinn Hoybraten, said in a statement. “The attack demonstrates how demanding and complex it is to work in a country where the […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 4, 2023 (AFP) – Five teachers and two labourers were gunned down Thursday at a school in northwest Pakistan, in an attack linked to Sunni-Shiite sectarian tensions, police and government officials said. “When the two attackers went inside (the school), they identified Shiite people and separated them before opening fire,” Muhammad Imran, police chief for Kurram district in Pakistan’s former tribal areas, told AFP. The attack came after a man from […]
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2023 (AFP) – The United States on Wednesday approved the world’s first vaccine for the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), the culmination of a decades-long hunt to protect vulnerable people from the common illness. Drugmaker GSK’s Arexvy was green-lighted for adults aged 60 and older, with similar shots from other makers including Pfizer and Moderna expected to follow soon. “Today’s approval of the first RSV vaccine is an important public health achievement to […]
RUBAVU, Rwanda, May 4, 2023 (AFP) – Rwandans grieved Thursday for lost loved ones and destroyed homes after powerful floods and landslides tore through the country killing at least 130 people and leaving many thousands homeless. The government was still counting the cost as families prepared to bury their dead in the aftermath of a natural disaster caused by torrential rains in the steep and hilly country. Rivers of mud swept away homes and other […]
PARIS, May 4, 2023 (AFP) – With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that humanity’s carbon pollution has the potential to turn oceans into a global warming “time bomb”. Oceans absorb most of the heat caused by planet-warming gases, causing heatwaves that harm aquatic life, altering weather patterns and disrupting crucial planet-regulating systems. While sea surface temperatures normally recede relatively quickly from annual peaks, this year they stayed high, […]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, May 4, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army called a “stabbing attack”. Iman Odeh, 26, was “killed by a bullet to the chest fired by the occupation soldiers in Huwara, south of Nablus,” a ministry statement said. The Israeli army said an assailant stabbed a soldier, who was “lightly injured” and taken […]
By Peter CATTERALL Agence France-Presse RUDONG, China (AFP) — At the end of a back alley surrounded by dilapidated buildings, the pitter-patter of ping-pong balls echoes around a cavernous warehouse in a Chinese town north of Shanghai. The members of this table tennis club in Rudong, a sleepy seaside county with one of the highest proportions of elderly residents in China, gather to exercise and catch up. Rudong once played a pioneering role in […]
By Bhuvan BAGGA Agence France-Presse DARBHANGA, India (AFP) — Married off by her parents at 14, Indian mother-of-seven Jaimala Devi kept having children because her husband insisted she could only stop once she had given birth to two sons. Devi’s story is common across Bihar, the poorest state in the world’s most populous country and also its fastest-growing: with around 127 million people, it already has roughly as many people as Mexico. India’s overall birthrate […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Police have arrested a man suspected of shooting five people — one of whom died — at an Atlanta hospital on Wednesday, authorities in the southern US city said. One person was killed and four were injured when Deion Patterson allegedly opened fire in a hospital waiting room just after midday (1700 GMT). Patterson then allegedly stole a truck that had been left running at a nearby gas station and […]
