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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (AFP) — At least 25 people have died in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains in southwestern India, officials said Sunday, as rescuers scoured for survivors in muddy debris and the military flew in emergency supplies. Residents were cut off in parts of the coastal state of Kerala as the rains, which started to intensify from late Friday, swelled rivers and flooded roads. Some 11 bodies have been found so far in […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Former US president Bill Clinton, 75, was released from a California hospital Sunday after spending five nights in treatment for an infection. Clinton, arm in arm with his wife and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, gave a thumbs up after he walked slowly out of the hospital and shook hands with staff in front of television cameras. “President Clinton was discharged from UC Irvine Medical Center today,” said a […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Rescue workers searched the seas of southern Spain on Sunday for 12 migrants who went missing after their boat overturned during an attempted crossing to the country from Algeria, Spain’s coastguard said. A rescue operation was launched after a Norwegian sailboat reported picking up an Algerian man in the sea around seven nautical miles off the southwestern province of Almeria, a coastguard spokeswoman said. A coastguard helicopter dispatched to the scene […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit the indigenous community of Kamloops where the remains of 215 children were found in May at a former residential school. It will be the prime minister’s first on-site visit to the British Columbia community, in the west of the country, since the unmarked graves were uncovered, sparking fury across the country. A statement from the Kamloops community said Trudeau would visit on October […]
by Tolga AKMEN with James PHEBY and Joe JACKSON in London Agence France Presse The fatal stabbing of British MP David Amess was a terrorist incident, police said Saturday, at they investigated the second killing of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016. The Metropolitan Police said its preliminary findings had revealed “a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism”. Amess, a 69-year-old pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker, was stabbed to death inside a church on Friday […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian authorities said on Saturday they had arrested two people as part of an investigation into the death of 18 people in the Urals who drank bootleg alcohol, in the second such incident in recent weeks. Investigators said “several individuals sold people an alcohol liquid that was dangerous for their health” over the past two weeks in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city. “Eighteen people died after drinking the liquid,” the statement […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Embassy in Lebanon reported that “no Filipino” had been hurt in deadly clashes that erupted recently in Beirut that killed at least six people and injured dozens. The Philippine government said it is monitoring the situation in the Beirut street violence where shots were haphazardly fired into residential facades. Violence erupted in Lebanon’s capital following a rally by Shiite protesters demanding the removal of the judge investigating last year’s […]
by Rouba El Husseini and Hashem Osseiran Agence France Presse BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Heavy fighting claimed at least six lives and left dozens wounded in Lebanon’s capital Thursday as an escalation of tensions around last year’s massive portside explosion turned parts of Beirut into a war-zone. The army deployed tanks and troops to quell street battles that sparked memories of the 1975-1990 civil war for a city already traumatised by last year’s blast disaster […]
Photos of the magnitude 4.8 quake that struck Bali, Indonesia on Saturday, October 16, 2021. The quake killed at least three people and injured seven. Disaster officials said the quake death toll is not expected to rise. “The quake was felt strongly for five seconds,” said disaster agency spokesman Abdul Muhari. “People were panicking and ran from their houses when the quake hit.” The tremor’s epicentre was far from the main tourist hub in Bali, […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Three people were killed Saturday when an earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island Bali, the disaster agency said. The 4.8 magnitude quake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) northeast of the town of Banjar Wanasari. Shallow quakes tend to do more damage than deep tremors. Two people died when the quake triggered a landslide that buried their house in Bangli regency while another person was […]
by Jing Xuan Teng Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Three astronauts successfully docked with China’s new space station on Saturday on what is set to be Beijing’s longest crewed mission to date and the latest landmark in its drive to become a major space power. The three blasted off shortly after midnight (1600 GMT Friday) from the Jiuquan launch centre in northwestern China’s Gobi desert, the China Manned Space Agency said, with the […]
by Viken KANTARCI with Pierre-Henry DESHAYES in Oslo KONGSBERG, Norway (AFP) — A Norway court on Friday ordered the man who confessed to killing five people in a bow-and-arrow attack to be held in detention in a medical facility, as questions mounted about his mental health. Espen Andersen Brathen, a Danish citizen who converted to Islam and is believed to have been radicalised, will be held for an initial period of four weeks, the first […]
