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By Alex Pigman Agence France-Presse (AFP) — The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Wednesday that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner or get banned from the United States. The lawmakers voted 352 in favor of the proposed law and 65 against, in a rare moment of bipartisan unity in politically divided Washington. The legislation threatens to be a major setback for the video-sharing app, which has surged in […]
By Elijah Nouvelage Agence France-Presse (AFP) — Joe Biden and rival Donald Trump each won enough delegates Tuesday to clinch their party nominations in the 2024 presidential race, all but assuring a rematch and setting up one of the longest election campaigns in US history. The results in four statewide elections Tuesday, the latest in the months-long march to determine the Democratic and Republican party flagbearers, were essentially a foregone conclusion as incumbent Biden and […]
PORT SUDAN, Sudan, March 13, 2024 (AFP) – Without critical action, nearly 230,000 children and new mothers in war-ravaged Sudan are “likely to die from hunger”, Save the Children warned on Wednesday. Nearly 11 months of fighting between the forces of two rival generals has killed thousands and displaced eight million people in the northeast African country, the United Nations says. The bombing and destruction of fields and factories have plunged Sudan into “one of […]
By Lucia LACURCIA, Pablo PORCIUNCULA RIO DE JANEIRO, March 13, 2024 (AFP) – A gunman wounded two people at Rio de Janeiro’s main bus station Tuesday and held 16 passengers hostage for three hours before being convinced to surrender, police said. There were scenes of panic as gunshots rang out in the afternoon at the Novo Rio station through which some 38,000 people pass daily, with buses headed for all regions of Brazil. Witnesses said […]
KADUNA, Nigeria, March 13, 2024 (AFP) – Gunmen abducted dozens of people from a northwestern Nigerian village on Tuesday, according to two local representatives and a UN source, just days after the kidnapping of more than 250 pupils from a school in the same region. Criminal gangs often carry out mass kidnappings in northwest Nigeria, targeting schools, villages and highways where they can quickly snatch large numbers of people for ransom payments. Tuesday’s abductions in […]
JERUSALEM, March 12, 2024 (AFP) – The Israeli military said Tuesday a soldier believed to be held captive in Gaza had been killed in the October 7 attack and his body taken to the Palestinian territory. Sergeant Itay Hen, 19, “fell on October 7 and was then kidnapped” to the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants, the military said in a statement. During the attack, Palestinian militants seized around 250 hostages, dozens of whom were released […]
By Ani SANDU BUCHAREST, March 12, 2024 (AFP) – Controversial British-American influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan appeared in a Bucharest court on Tuesday after Romanian police detained them over UK sex offence charges. The brothers were arrested on Monday evening at their home near the capital Bucharest, where they are under judicial supervision in a separate case, and appeared at an appeals court on Tuesday, dressed in black. Romanian authorities said in a […]
TOKYO, March 12, 2024 (AFP) – Locals in a city in western Japan have been told not to approach or touch a missing cat that fell into a vat of dangerous chemicals and then scampered off into the night. An employee at a metal plating plant in Fukuyama arrived for work on Monday morning to find feline paw prints leading away from the container, the firm said. Grainy security camera footage released by the company […]
MOSCOW, March 12, 2024 (AFP) – Russia on Tuesday shut schools temporarily in the city of Kursk near the Ukraine border, after attacks on the region by pro-Kyiv militias and an increase in Ukrainian drone strikes. The news that schools would close until the end of the week followed an announcement by Moscow that it had deployed warplanes, rockets and artillery to fend off an attack on its territory from Ukraine. “In connection with recent […]
By Thanaporn PROMYAMYAI BANGKOK, March 12, 2024 (AFP) – Thailand’s election commission said Tuesday it will ask the Constitutional Court to dissolve the reformist Move Forward Party, which won the most seats at last year’s polls. The MFP upended the kingdom’s political order in May’s election, scoring the most votes after a campaign promising reform of the military, business monopolies and to amend the lese-majeste laws. But their audacious bid shocked the Thai establishment and […]
By Stanislav DOSHCHITSYN KYIV, Ukraine, March 12, 2024 (AFP) – Pro-Ukrainian militias staged a brazen cross-border raid on Tuesday, claiming to take control of a Russian village, as Kyiv launched one of its largest drone attacks since the start of the war. Groups of pro-Kyiv volunteer fighters, made up of Russians who oppose the Kremlin, said that they had broken into the Kursk and Belgorod regions, while Moscow said it had fired rockets and artillery […]
MOSCOW, March 12, 2024 (AFP) – A Ukrainian drone hit city hall in the Russian border city of Belgorod, injuring two people and blowing out the building’s windows, the regional governor said on Tuesday. The strike came amid a wave of attacks on Russia’s border regions and an announcement by Moscow that it had foiled multiple attempted cross-border raids by pro-Ukrainian paramilitaries. “In Belgorod, an enemy drone crashed into the city administration building,” governor Vyacheslav […]
