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by Kaouthar Oudrhiri Agence France-Presse OULED ESSI MASSEOUD, Morocco (AFP) — Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that have hit his previously fertile but isolated village in Morocco and because he just couldn’t bear it any longer. “To see villagers rush to public fountains in the morning or to a neighbor to get water makes you want to cry,” the man in his 60s said. “The water shortage is making us suffer,” he […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – A second man charged with stealing Lady Gaga’s dogs in an episode during which her dog-walker was shot was jailed Thursday after admitting to his part in the robbery. Lafayette Shon Whaley, now 28, was ordered to serve six years in prison for second-degree robbery over the theft, which saw the singer’s French bulldogs taken. Whaley was part of a gang that shot Ryan Fischer as he exercised the […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: – ‘Grave hour’ at Ukraine nuclear plant – The head of the UN nuclear watchdog tells the Security Council that fighting near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has sparked a “grave crisis”, after Kyiv and Moscow again accuse each other of shelling near the site. “This is a serious hour, a grave hour and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) must be […]
Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Last month marked one of the three hottest Julys ever recorded, with global temperatures measuring nearly half a degree above average, the United Nations’ weather agency said Tuesday. “The world just had one of the three warmest Julys on record,” Clare Nullis, spokeswoman for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), told reporters in Geneva. Pointing to fresh data from the European monitoring service Copernicus, she said that July 2022 had […]
by Maggy DONALDSON Agence France Presse Donald Trump on Wednesday declined to answer questions under oath about alleged fraud at his family business, as legal pressures pile up for the former president whose house was raided by the FBI just two days ago. Trump said he had “no choice” but to invoke the Fifth Amendment — which allows individuals to remain silent under questioning — during hours of deposition at the New York attorney general’s […]
by By Emmanuel Peuchot and Abdullah Hasrat Agence France-Presse KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Gul Agha Jalali used to spend his nights planting bombs — hoping to target an Afghan government soldier or, better still, a foreign serviceman. These days, the 23-year-old Taliban member is studying English and has enrolled in a computer science course in the capital, Kabul. “When our country was occupied by infidels, we needed bombs, mortars and guns,” says Jalali, an employee […]
by Alexis Huguet Agence France-Presse RUTSHURU, DR Congo (AFP) — Dozens of bandaged patients lounge on beds in a hushed hospital ward in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, groans of pain occasionally breaking the silence. Rebels, soldiers and civilians make up the wounded — all victims of the latest flare-up in violence in eastern DRC’s North Kivu province. After lying mostly dormant for years, the M23 rebel group resumed fighting late last year and has […]
by Catherine Lai Agence France-Presse TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan’s army held another live-fire drill Thursday after Beijing ended its largest-ever military exercises around the island and repeated threats to bring the self-ruled democracy under its control. Beijing has raged at a trip to Taiwan last week by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — the highest-ranking elected American official to visit in decades — staging days of air and sea drills around the island that […]
by Claire Lee Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un declared a “shining victory” over Covid-19 as his sister revealed he had fallen ill during the outbreak, which she blamed on Seoul, state media said Thursday. Addressing a meeting of health workers and scientists, Kim announced a “victory… in the war against the malignant pandemic disease”, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. The isolated country, which has […]
by Jing Xuan Teng Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — China on Wednesday vowed zero tolerance for “separatist activities” in Taiwan and reaffirmed that it would take the self-ruled island by force if necessary. The warning from Beijing, which considers Taiwan its territory, came after days of unprecedented Chinese military drills around the island sparked by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip. Pelosi last week became the highest-ranking US official to visit Taiwan in decades […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed US ratification of bids by Finland and Sweden to enter NATO, taking expansion of the Western alliance in response to Russia’s Ukraine invasion one step closer. Biden said the two northern European countries would become “strong, reliable highly capable new allies” by making the “sacred commitment” to mutual defense in the US-led transatlantic alliance. Earlier this month, the Senate voted 95-1 in favor of […]
by Chris Lefkow and Camille Camdessus Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Top Republican leaders flung their support behind former US president Donald Trump on Tuesday after an extraordinary FBI raid on his palatial Florida residence sparked a political firestorm in an already bitterly divided country. The FBI move marked a stunning escalation of legal probes into the 45th president and comes as he is weighing another White House run. Several former advisors to […]
