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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – A wild kangaroo is suspected of killing a 77-year-old man who was keeping it as a pet, Australian police said Tuesday — reportedly the first fatal roo attack in 86 years. The man, who has not been identified, was found by a relative on Sunday afternoon with “serious injuries” at a property in the sparsely populated southern town of Redmond in Western Australia, police said. “It is believed the man had […]
by Daniel Rook Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — The United States on Monday invited Mexico to join a multibillion dollar push to boost semiconductor manufacturing to compete with China, during a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for high-level economic talks. Officials set aside trade tensions over Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s energy policies and focused instead on the potential benefits from cooperation in microchips and other technology. The Chips […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — At least 17 people were killed over the last three days in Colombia in a spate of violent incidents, authorities said, highlighting the huge task facing President Gustavo Petro. In the northern city of Barranquilla, six people were shot dead by gunmen on Monday morning while drinking in a bar. Police said the powerful Gulf Clan drug trafficking gang carried out the attack on members of the rival Los Costenos group. […]
by Emmanuel PARISSE, with Ania TSOUKANOVA in Kyiv Agence France-Presse KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukraine said Monday that its forces regained yet more ground in the past 24 hours and retook an area seven times the size of Kyiv this month, as Russia responded with strikes on some recaptured areas. The territorial shifts marked one of Russia’s biggest reversals since its troops were turned back from Kyiv in the earliest days of the nearly seven […]
by Eugenia LOGIURATTO Agence France-Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Wearing a black T-shirt stamped with the word “Bolsonaro” and a skull, Brazilian ex-cop Elitusalem Gomes Freitas takes aim with his .40-caliber rifle and fires, savoring the smell of gunpowder as he nails his target. Clutching his bulky black rifle at a firing range in the Rio de Janeiro suburbs, a handgun strapped to his thigh, Freitas proudly repeats one of far-right President Jair […]
by Nina LARSON Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Afghan women made an impassioned plea at the UN Monday for solid international action to address the “gender apartheid” in their country since the Taliban swept to power last year. “Today, human rights in Afghanistan do not exist,” Afghan Mahbouba Seraj told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The outspoken journalist and rights activist said she was “sick and tired” of sounding the alarm […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Kyiv and Moscow have shown “signs that they are interested” in creating a security zone around Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Ukraine threatened by shelling since Russia invaded its neighbor, the UN atomic watchdog said Monday. Shelling around the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia power plant in southern Ukraine has raised fears of a nuclear disaster. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has two experts at the plant since a mission there early […]
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (AFP) The death toll from a massive earthquake in Papua New Guinea rose to seven Monday and is expected to grow as rescuers begin to reach remote landslide-hit communities. Police Commissioner David Manning said the victims of Sunday’s 7.6-magnitude quake had been found across the central north of the country, where there is widespread damage to homes and infrastructure. The quake struck mid-morning and triggered a series of deadly landslides. […]
by Anna MALPAS / Sylvain PEUCHMAURD Agence France Presse EDINBURGH, United Kingdom (AFP) — Tens of thousands of mourners lined the route of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral cortege on Sunday as it left the Scottish retreat where she died, to bid farewell to their longest serving monarch. The hearse carrying the 96-year-old’s oak coffin, draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland, was driven from the Balmoral estate through Aberdeen and Dundee to the capital […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — A Black Hawk helicopter commandeered by the Taliban after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan crashed during a training session at the weekend, killing two pilots and a crew member, the defense ministry said. The incident occurred Saturday on the campus of the country’s defense university in the capital Kabul. The Black Hawk crashed due to “a technical problem during a training exercise”, the ministry said, adding five crew members were […]
by Emmanuel PARISSE with Anna KORIAGINA in Kyiv Agence France-Presse KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukraine has announced fresh gains in its counter-offensive, including the recapture of the strategic city of Izyum in the country’s east, where Kyiv accused Russia of carrying out reprisal strikes against electricity infrastructure. Throughout the weekend Ukraine claimed new military successes against Russia’s army in the east and south, the latest coming Sunday night when President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Izyum “liberated”. […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) – Sweden’s right wing looked set to oust Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s left-wing bloc in Sunday’s general election on strong gains by the far-right, clinging to a slim lead with 94 percent of electoral districts counted. The right wing bloc was credited with a majority of 176 of 349 seats in parliament, with the left bloc trailing with 173. With the vote deemed too close to call, election authorities said they did […]
