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HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — An American man convicted of a quadruple murder linked to drug trafficking more than 30 years ago was executed in Texas on Thursday. Arthur Brown Jr, 52, received a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in the city of Huntsville, in the eastern part of the vast southern US state, the state prisons board said. This made Brown the fifth death row inmate to be executed in the conservative […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — Three people were shot and wounded in Tel Aviv on Thursday in an attack carried out by a member of the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, Israeli police said. The shooting took place at about 8:40 pm (1840 GMT) on Dizengoff Avenue, a popular nightlife spot in the center of Tel Aviv, where a Palestinian attack killed three people in April 2022. “The three victims of today’s attack […]
by Huw GRIFFITH Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Another big storm was headed for California on Thursday, the latest in a winter parade that has already brought near-record snowfall and heavy rains. Over the coming days, two atmospheric rivers — moisture-laden weather systems chugging in from the Pacific — were expected to dump heavy snow on already-buried mountain ranges, and bring torrential rain to lower elevations. Some areas could see as much […]
Several people have been killed in a shooting in a Jehovah’s Witnesses church in Hamburg, with the gunman believed to be among the dead found in the building, German police said Thursday. Shots rang out at the church in the Grossborstel area, with the first emergency made at around 2015 GMT, a police spokesman at the scene said. “Several people were seriously injured, some even fatally,” police said on Twitter. “At the moment there […]
Several people have been killed in a shooting in a church in Hamburg, German police said Thursday. The shooting took place at around 9pm, police said, adding that there were “one or more unknown” assailants. “According to first indications, shots were fired in a church in Deelboege street in the Grossborstel district. Several people were seriously injured, some even fatally,” police said on Twitter. They alerted people to an “extreme danger” in the area using […]
by Irakli METREVELI At least 30,000 protesters took to the streets of Georgia for a third day running Thursday despite the ruling party’s promise to drop a controversial “foreign agent” bill reminiscent of Russian legislation used to silence critics. Waving Georgian, Ukrainian and EU flags, protesters gathered outside the parliament building in the capital Tbilisi, piling pressure on the government, accused of flirting with the Kremlin and putting the Black Sea nation on an […]
Hamburg, Germany | AFP | Several people have been killed in a shooting in a church in Hamburg, German police said Thursday. “According to first indications, shots were fired in a church in Deelboege street in the Grossborstel district. Several people were seriously injured, some even fatally,” wrote police on Twitter. This is a developing story. © Agence France-Presse
Kyiv, Ukraine | AFP | by Anna MALPAS / Thibault MARCHAND Nine people were killed across Ukraine on Thursday, as Russia unleashed a barrage of high-precision missile and other attacks that triggered a wave of power cuts, including at Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant. The blackout at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant prompted the UN nuclear agency’s chief to issue a dire warning that next time “luck will run out”, while Washington called the missile […]
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile Thursday, Seoul’s military said, Pyongyang’s latest show of force just days before South Korea and the United States kick off major joint military exercises. Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their worst points in decades, with the nuclear-armed North conducting ever more provocative banned weapons tests as Seoul moved to ramp up security cooperation with Washington in response. Last year, Kim Jong Un’s regime declared […]
Kyiv, Ukraine | AFP | Wednesday 3/9/2023 by Anna MALPAS NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Wednesday the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut might fall to Russia in the coming days following months of intense fighting. His remarks came as Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, which has spearheaded the attack on Bakhmut, claimed to have captured the eastern bank of the industrial town, devastated in the longest battle since Moscow invaded Ukraine a year ago. […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invited top US lawmaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, to visit Ukraine as doubts over support for Kyiv’s war efforts simmer in Congress, particularly among conservatives. Zelensky proposed the visit in an interview with CNN, which will be broadcast later Wednesday. “Mr McCarthy, he has to come here to see how we work, what’s happening here, what war caused us, which people are fighting now, who are fighting now. And then […]
by M JEGATHESAN Malaysia’s former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin was arrested Thursday after anti-graft authorities questioned him for alleged misuse of public funds meant to fight Covid-19. Muhyiddin, who was prime minister for 17 months between 2020 and 2021, at the height of Malaysia’s battle against the coronavirus, is expected to be slapped with multiple charges in court on Friday, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said in a statement. He now leads an opposition […]
