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NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — An Indian man who used a cobra and a viper to murder his wife was sentenced to life in jail on Wednesday in what prosecutors called the “rarest of rare” cases. Sooraj Kumar set loose a highly venomous Russell’s viper snake on his wife Uthra that left her in hospital for almost two months, prosecutors said. While she recovered at her parents’ house, the 28-year-old husband obtained a cobra from […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday it was “very important” to stabilize the gas market, as Europe faces a gas crisis ahead of winter due to a surge in prices and a drop in reserves. Speaking at an energy forum in Moscow, Putin said it was “very important” to “suggest a long-term mechanism to stabilizRuse the energy market” in what he called a “difficult situation.” © Agence France-Presse
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s most vulnerable are “at risk of starvation” with the economy worsening due to a self-imposed coronavirus blockade, and UN sanctions imposed over the country’s nuclear programmes should be eased, a UN human rights expert said Wednesday. The impoverished nation has been behind a rigid blockade since early last year to protect itself from the pandemic, with the economy suffering and trade with key partner China dwindling to a […]
by Aurélia END WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States will open its land borders with Mexico and Canada in early November to non-essential travelers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, a senior White House official announced Tuesday. The official said the administration would give the “precise date very soon” — both for land crossings as well as international air travel, which would be timed to “go together.” The United States had already announced […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Tropical Storm Pamela is expected to slam into the western coast of Mexico as a hurricane early Wednesday morning, possibly bringing life-threatening surges and dangerous winds as it makes landfall, the US National Hurricane Center warned. Overnight, Pamela was forecast to pass over the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula before accelerating towards the Pacific port city Mazatlan with tropical-storm-force winds estimated to start around 2 am (0800 GMT). […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Two US Postal Service employees were shot dead Tuesday in a gun attack at a Tennessee post office, authorities said. The suspected shooter opened fire at the East Lamar Carrier Annex in Memphis and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. US Postal Inspector Susan Link told reporters that both victims, as well as the shooter, were postal service employees. “There is no ongoing threat,” she said. “The FBI is […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Joe Biden will welcome Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday, in the first visit by an African leader to the White House during his presidency. The summit will be part of “Biden’s commitment to the US partnership with Africa based on principles of mutual respect and equality,” a White House statement said Tuesday. It said Biden and Kenyatta would discuss “the need to bring transparency and accountability to domestic and […]
by Heather SCOTT WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Worldwide supply chain disruptions are driving price increases and draining momentum out of economies recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, the IMF warned on Tuesday. The ongoing hit from the pandemic and the failure to distribute vaccines worldwide is worsening the economic divide and darkening prospects for developing nations, the IMF said in its latest World Economic Outlook. The global economy is expected to grow 5.9 percent this […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — A Colombian governor claimed on Tuesday he had survived two armed attacks in the space of 24 hours in a region rife with dissident left-wing guerrillas. The first attack happened on Sunday when “the vehicle I was traveling in was hit by a sniper,” Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, governor of the central Meta department, told W Radio. On Monday afternoon “an explosive device” was detonated as a caravan of vehicles Zuluaga was […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Paris started its 2021-22 school year with 6,000 fewer kindergarten and primary school students than last year, as more people work from home as a result of the Covid crisis, say officials. Families are also fleeing the capital’s soaring property prices to find bigger homes for less money. The number of Paris schoolchildren has been falling steadily over the past decade, leading to the closure of several schools. But the five-percent […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the Greek island of Crete Tuesday, the Athens Observatory said, with initial media reports suggesting no-one was hurt. The epicenter of the quake felt on the island was “detected in the sea 405 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of Athens at 0924 GMT”, the Observatory said in a statement, two weeks after a 5.8-magnitude quake killed one and injured 10 on Crete. © Agence France-Presse
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong battened down on Tuesday evening for the second time in less than a week as an approaching tropical storm prompted forecasters to raise their alert level and trigger safety measures. Tropical Cyclone Kompasu — named after the Japanese pronunciation of “compass” — is the second major storm to threaten the international business hub with torrential rain and high winds in five days. As of 0900 GMT it was […]
