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China on Tuesday removed defence minister Li Shangfu and ousted former foreign minister Qin Gang from its cabinet, state media reported, as part of a major reshuffle of its top leadership. The news comes after months of speculation about China’s cabinet, after Qin was abruptly removed from office without explanation in July, and with Li not having been seen in public for months. Both Qin and Li are believed by experts to have been personally […]
By Andrew MARSZAL LOS ANGELES, Oct 24, 2023 (AFP) – “Life on Our Planet,” the new natural history series from Netflix and Steven Spielberg, sets out to tell the entire, dramatic story of life on Earth in a serialized, “binge watch” format. Streaming globally from Wednesday, the show’s eight episodes transport viewers through Earth’s five previous mass extinction events, each recreated with computer-generated visual effects. As Morgan Freeman’s narration reminds us, life has always found […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 24, 2023 (AFP) – A large cloud of fog enveloping a highway led to at least 158 car crashes and seven deaths in the southern US state of Louisiana, authorities said Monday. The so-called “super fog,” which US media reported was caused by a mixture of marsh fires and dense fog, led to a massive pileup on Interstate 55, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) outside of New Orleans, the Louisiana State Police said […]
By Darko DURIDANSKI VELES, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP) – One day Dimche Ackov had enough of the stress and pollution of urban life and chucked in his job and headed out into the North Macedonia countryside for a fresh start. Nearly 10 years later, Ackov has channelled his burnout into a fully-fledged mission to educate people about living closer to nature. His home, constructed entirely from locally-sourced, natural materials, is now a kind of […]
By Adel Zaanoun with David Stout in Jerusalem RAFAH, Palestinian Territories, Oct 24, 2023 (AFP) – Two elderly Hamas hostages were airlifted to an Israeli hospital to be reunited with family Tuesday, as the United States demanded Palestinian militants release 200 other captives before Gaza ceasefire talks are considered. Hamas militants stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, and killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians who were shot or burnt to […]
By Ulysse BELLIER TURRELL, United States, Oct 24, 2023 (AFP) – Jonathan Driver, an Arkansas farmer with blackened hands and a thick southern drawl, doesn’t have a minute to spare. He’s been working 16 or 17 hours a day to finish harvesting his crops and — an added stress this year — to find someplace to store tons of excess soybeans. “Getting it out of that field is very crucial,” Driver said as he stepped […]
Microsoft announced Tuesday a Aus$5 billion (US$3.2 billion) investment in Australia focused on cloud computing and artificial intelligence, saying it would boost the country’s economy and cyber defences. Details of the deal were outlined by bosses at the US tech giant and by Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, who is on a four-day official visit to the United States. It represents Microsoft’s largest investment in Australia in its 40-year history in the country, the company […]
Bobi, who was this year ordained the oldest dog in the world by Guinness World Records, has died at the ripe old age of 31, Portuguese media reported Monday. “We have better memories of a long life where he was happy and, above all, where he made a lot of people happy, especially his family,” Bobi’s owner Leonel Costa told local media from the little village in central Portugal where he lives. A purebreed Rafeiro, […]
Suspected paramilitary militia members torched 35 buses and a train drivers’ cabin in Rio de Janeiro Monday, paralyzing parts of the scenic Brazilian city after one of their leaders was killed in a police operation, officials said. The chaotic scenes erupted after an operation that state Governor Claudio Castro said killed the nephew and right-hand-man of a militia boss known as “Zinho.” Castro said the police had delivered a “hard blow to one of the […]
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Oct 23, 2023 (AFP) – Gaza’s Hamas rulers said Monday that they had freed two more women abducted from Israel during the October 7 attacks. The Palestinian Islamist group’s military wing said the two elderly women, identified as Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper, had been freed for “compelling humanitarian” reasons following mediation by Qatar and Egypt. Their husbands were still in captivity, among more than 200 hostages still held by Hamas, […]
SEOUL, Oct 23, 2023 (AFP) – South Korea, the United States and Japan carried out their first joint aerial drills on Sunday, Seoul’s military said. The exercise, which involved a US nuclear-weapons-capable B-52 bomber, comes as Seoul, Washington and Tokyo beef up their defence cooperation against growing missile and nuclear threats from North Korea. The US bomber landed at a South Korean airbase on Tuesday after a flyover at the country’s largest defence exhibition. B-52s, […]
