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SEOUL, March 15, 2024 (AFP) – South Korea’s “Squid Game” actor O Yeong-su has been found guilty of sexual misconduct, a local court said Friday, after he was charged with assaulting a woman in 2017. The 79-year-old in 2022 became the first South Korean to win a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor in a series for his performance as a seemingly vulnerable old man in the mega-hit Netflix dystopian thriller. The actor was […]
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said on Friday that Israeli fire killed 20 people and wounded 155 waiting to receive desperately needed aid in the besieged territory, but Israel said the reports were “erroneous”. With the United Nations warning of a looming famine in Gaza, besieged by Israel after the October 7 attack by Hamas militants, a Spanish aid ship sailed closer to the Gaza coast opening a maritime corridor from Cyprus. Efforts to get food […]
MOSCOW, March 15, 2024 (AFP) – Russians started voting on Friday in a three-day presidential election that is set to hand veteran leader Vladimir Putin another six-year term as the raging conflict in Ukraine spreads further into Russian territory. In power as president or prime minister since the final day of 1999, the former KGB agent is casting the election as a show of Russians’ loyalty and support for his military assault on Ukraine, now […]
MOSCOW, March 15, 2024 (AFP) – A Moscow-installed official on Friday said Ukrainian shelling of the Russian-held city of Donetsk killed three children. Russia claims to have annexed the Donetsk region, even though it does not have full control of it and the frontline regional capital comes under frequent shelling attacks. “As a result of barbaric overnight shelling … a direct hit was recorded on a house in the residential sector,” Alexey Kulemzin, the Russian-appointed […]
By Frankie TAGGART WASHINGTON, March 14, 2024 (AFP) – The leader of the US Senate called Thursday for Israel to hold new elections in the most strident criticism yet by a senior American official of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza. The rebuke from Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking elected Jewish American in history, came amid increased pressure from President Joe Biden over the mounting death toll in the conflict, sparked by […]
DUBAI, March 15, 2024 (AFP) – The US military said Thursday it had destroyed nine anti-ship ballistic missiles and two drones in Yemen after Huthi rebels fired on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said two missiles fired by the Huthi rebels towards the Red Sea and two towards the Gulf of Aden had caused no damage or injuries. It said the strikes on the missiles and drones […]
The killing of a stray cat in Istanbul has triggered petitions, protests and death threats, pushing the president to intervene and the courts to retry the culprit. On January 1, Ibrahim K. was caught on a security camera in the lobby of the building where he lived kicking to death a stray cat named Eros that his neighbours regularly fed. He was sentenced in early February to 18 months in jail but was then released […]
By Louis Baudoin-Laarman KEREM SHALOM, Israel, March 14, 2024 (AFP) – Israel on Thursday defended its policies on admitting trucks into Gaza, calling on the United Nations to send more convoys of aid to the war-ravaged territory. “If the UN wants to see more aid in north Gaza, it should coordinate more convoys,” said Elad Goren, head of the civil department at COGAT, a defence ministry body governing civilian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories. […]
As New Orleans police seize marijuana, they can’t stop some inside the department headquarters from consuming the confiscated stash. It’s not officers they’re having trouble with, but rather rats that have infested the building for years. “The rats are eating our marijuana,” Anne Kirkpatrick, police chief in the southern US city said. “They’re all high.” Kirkpatrick made her comments speaking to a city council meeting earlier this week, according to local media. Rats and cockroaches […]
JERUSALEM, March 15, 2024 (AFP) – The Israeli army said Friday it had not opened fire on a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip, after the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry said 20 people were killed and 155 wounded. “Press reports that Israeli forces attacked dozens of Gazans at an aid distribution point are erroneous,” the Israeli military said in a brief statement, adding that it was “analyzing the incident seriously”.
By Jean Daniel SENAT with Ines BEL AIBA in Washington PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 14, 2024 (AFP) – Gunfire rang out Thursday in Haiti’s capital and “bandits” set a police official’s house ablaze, ending three days of relative calm as politicians pressed on with talks to form an interim governing body. The country has been convulsed for two weeks by a gang uprising, with the well-armed groups saying they wanted to topple Prime Minister Ariel Henry, an […]
TOKYO, March 14, 2024 (AFP) – A leak last month at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant was “a minor incident” unrelated to the release of treated wastewater, International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi said on Thursday. Plant operator TEPCO reported the leak in early February at a part of the site that processes radioactive water. It said no sign of contamination had been detected outside the plant, which suffered a devastating meltdown in 2011. Grossi, […]
