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By Maggy DONALDSON NEW YORK, May 14, 2024 (AFP) – For more than a decade Michael Cohen worked his way into Donald Trump’s inner circle, a loyal attack dog who fought vehemently on behalf of his boss. In return he wanted what any hound desires — a treat, a pat on the head, or at least a moment in the sun. On Monday the latter was his, though perhaps not as he’d originally envisioned. Cohen […]
TOKYO, May 14, 2024 (AFP) – Japan has lodged a formal protest after a South Korean opposition party leader made a trip to disputed islets, stoking a long-standing territorial spat ahead of an expected three-way summit with China. “It is totally unacceptable and extremely regrettable that the South Korean opposition party leader landed on Takeshima despite repeated requests from Japan to refrain,” top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said Tuesday. Former justice minister Cho Kuk had […]
TANAH DATAR, Indonesia, May 14, 2024 (AFP) – Rescuers recovered more bodies on Tuesday after flash floods and cold lava flow on Indonesia’s Sumatra island over the weekend killed at least 50 people and left another 27 missing, the country’s disaster agency said. Hours of heavy rain caused large volcanic rocks to roll down one of Indonesia’s most active volcanos into two of the worst-hit districts on Sumatra island Saturday evening while flooding inundated roads, […]
TANAH DATAR, Indonesia, May 13, 2024 (AFP) – The number of people killed by flash floods and cold lava flow from a volcano in western Indonesia over the weekend has risen to 41 with 17 more missing, a local disaster agency official told AFP Monday. Hours of heavy rain caused large volcanic rocks to roll down one of Indonesia’s most active volcanos into two districts on Sumatra island Saturday evening, while flooding inundated […]
JAKARTA, May 13, 2024 (AFP) – A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Monday, spewing a huge ash tower more than five kilometres (three miles) into the sky after authorities raised its alert level to the second-highest last week. No damage or casualties were immediately reported but images showed a column of ash soaring into the sky on Halmahera island in North Maluku province. Authorities said it reached more than five kilometres above the volcano’s […]
By: Thomas I. Likness – NET/25 Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Out-of-control wildfires have prompted Canadian officials to evacuate thousands of people in northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta. Poor air quality and reduced visibility have forced the three-thousand residents of Fort Nelson, B-C and a nearby Indigenous community to flee their homes. A fast-growing blaze has chewed its way through 42-hundred hectares of forest. A tree that fell on a power line is […]
MONTREAL, May 12, 2024 (AFP) – Thousands of people fled their homes Sunday in western Canada as hundreds of wildfires beginning earlier than usual portend a difficult fire season. The small town of Fort Nelson in the province of British Columbia was among the areas threatened by flames. “Fires are really all around us from the west to the northeast,” Mayor Rob Fraser told AFP as he urged hundreds of people who have stayed put […]
By Suy SE KAMPOT, Cambodia, May 13, 2024 (AFP) – Farmer Chhim Laem shakes his head as he walks between long rows of dead bushes, their brown leaves scorched by heat and drought that have devastated Cambodia’s famed Kampot pepper crop. Known for its intense floral flavour, Kampot pepper is prized by top chefs around the world and sells for up to $200 per kilo. Nurtured for generations in two provinces in southwest Cambodia, the […]
By Issam AHMED with AFP bureaus around the world WASHINGTON, May 13, 2024 (AFP) – Anyone who missed the dazzling auroras dancing across night skies earlier this weekend will get another chance Sunday evening, as the powerful geomagnetic storm hitting the Earth is expected to intensify yet again. “Several intense Coronal Mass Ejections are still anticipated to reach the Earth’s outer atmosphere by later today,” the US National Weather Service said. Those ejections — expulsions […]
MOSCOW, May 12, 2024 (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday moved to replace defence minister Sergei Shoigu in a major shake-up to Russia’s military leadership more than two years into its Ukraine offensive. Putin proposed economist Andrey Belousov as Shoigu’s replacement, according to a list of the ministerial nominations published by the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament. The move comes at a key time in the conflict with Russian troops advancing […]
GUATEMALA CITY, May 12, 2024 (AFP) – A powerful earthquake Sunday shook Guatemala near its southwestern border with Mexico, causing some buildings to collapse but claiming no known victims, the country’s National Institute for Seismology reported. The quake, with a magnitude of 6.5, struck at 5:39 am (1139 GMT). Its epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean 90 kilometers (55 miles) from the coast of San Marcos department and at a depth of 25 kilometers, […]
By Metrison AGAM, Indonesia, May 12, 2024 (AFP) – Rina Devina was getting ready to go to sleep with her husband and two of her children at home on the Indonesian island of Sumatra when she heard a thunderous noise and someone shouted “flash flood!” Hours of heavy rain and cold lava from nearby volcano Mount Marapi inundated two districts just before midnight on Saturday, sweeping dozens of people to their deaths and damaging […]
