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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Rescuers in Japan were searching Saturday for a sightseeing boat carrying around 30 people that sent a call warning it was sinking off the north coast, the coastguard and local media said. A local coastguard official told AFP that rescuers had “set up a task force to tackle the incident” and look for the missing, but declined to confirm any other details of the reported accident. National broadcaster NHK said the […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Florida governor Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a law that eliminates a statute that has for decades allowed entertainment giant Disney to act as a local government in Orlando, where it has its theme park. The move was the latest episode in a dispute between DeSantis’ Republican administration and Disney, after the company criticized the passage in March of a law banning school lessons on sexual orientation. There was […]
Three people were wounded on Friday after a gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon in an upscale neighborhood of the US capital, police said. The Connecticut Avenue-Van Ness neighborhood of Washington was on lockdown after the mid-afternoon shooting and residents were evacuated as police hunted for the gunman. WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 22: Police provide cover as area residents are told to run with their hands up while being evacuated from their homes after a shooting in the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan described four disputed islands as “illegally occupied” by Russia for the first time in nearly two decades on Friday as ties sour between the countries over the war in Ukraine. The two nations have long been engaged in attempts to agree a post-World War II treaty, but the islands held by Moscow and claimed by Tokyo remain a key sticking point. Japan’s foreign ministry last used the expression in […]
by Clara WRIGHT Agence France Presse Nanterre, France (AFP) — French authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn, the disgraced auto tycoon who jumped bail in Japan and fled to Lebanon in a sensational getaway, prosecutors told AFP on Friday. The warrant was issued on Thursday over 15 million euros ($16.3 million) in suspect payments between the Renault-Nissan alliance that Ghosn once headed and an Omani company, Suhail Bahwan Automobiles (SBA), […]
by Joris Fioriti, with Joshua Melvin in Kyiv Agence France Presse ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AFP) — The devastated city of Mariupol “continues to resist” despite Russian claims to have captured it, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday as he welcomed fresh US aid to help confront Moscow’s eastern offensive. Russia says it has “liberated” the city, with just a few thousand Ukrainian soldiers left in the Azovstal plant complex, where thousands more civilians are also […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of planning to “falsify” an independence referendum in the partly occupied southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. In a video message Thursday evening, Zelensky urged residents of areas under occupation to not provide any personal information, like their passport numbers, to the Russian forces. “This is not to help you… This is aimed to falsify the so-called referendum on your land, if an order […]
by Javier Tovar © Agence France-Presse CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — In a rich neighborhood east of Caracas, a bodyguard flashes his rifle as a private armored car with dark tinted windows speeds away under his intimidating watch. In Venezuela, one of the most violent countries in the world, having an armed escort has long been a shield against kidnapping, and worse. Today, it is increasingly also a display of status. In the well-to-do neighborhoods […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Thursday slapped travel bans on US Vice President Kamala Harris, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of prominent Americans and Canadians in retaliation for sanctions imposed over Ukraine. The Russian foreign ministry said the travel restrictions on 29 Americans and 61 Canadians — which also includes defense officials, business leaders and journalists from both countries — would remain in effect indefinitely. The foreign ministry said the list was […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un thanked outgoing South Korean president Moon Jae-in for his efforts to improve inter-Korean relations, state media said, in an unexpected move following growing signs Pyongyang is resuming nuclear testing. North Korea has carried out more than a dozen weapons tests so far this year, and experts have warned of recent signs of new activity at a key nuclear testing site. Moon’s hawkish successor, […]
DILI, East Timor (AFP) — Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta scored a landslide victory in East Timor’s presidential election, according to preliminary results published Wednesday by the election secretariat. The 72-year-old secured 397,145 votes, or 62.09 percent, against incumbent Francisco “Lu-Olo” Guterres’ 242,440, or 37.91 percent, the secretariat’s website showed after all ballots were counted. “The count of the district, national and regional vote has been completed,” said Acilino Manuel Branco, general director of the […]
by Sam KINGSLEY Agence France Presse HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Finland’s parliament on Wednesday opened a debate on whether to seek NATO membership, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked a surge in political and public support for joining the military alliance. Despite Russia warning of a nuclear build-up in the Baltic should Finland and neighbouring Sweden join the military alliance, Finland’s prime minister said that her country now needed to decide quickly on whether […]
