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SYDNEY, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – Warm winds fanned multiple blazes on Wednesday in an unusually early start to Australia’s annual fire season, prompting a state leader to warn of a “horror” summer of bushfires ahead. Firefighters said they had been fighting 18 out-of-control bushfires in the morning in the eastern state of New South Wales, some in the Bega Valley region of the state’s southeastern coast. At least three homes were lost in the […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – At least five people were injured in a shooting on a university campus in the eastern US city of Baltimore late Tuesday, police said. The shooting took place on the campus of the historically Black university Morgan State around 9:25 pm (0125 GMT on Wednesday), Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters. Five people between the ages of 18 and 22 had been injured in the incident, but none […]
By Mathiew LEISER, with Genevieve NORMAND in Montreal LEBEL-SUR-QUÉVILLON, Canada, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – No droppings, tracks, nests or other traces of wildlife — Canada’s boreal forests were devastated by record wildfires this year. In the woodlands of Quebec province, hunter Paul Wabanonik searches for fresh moose tracks on his Indigenous tribe’s ancestral lands, which had sustained him and his family. “Normally, we would see traces everywhere,” says the Ashinabe tribesman. But “it’s like […]
By Thanaporn PROMYAMYAI BANGKOK, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – Thailand’s prime minister on Wednesday vowed “preventive measures” after a shooting at a Bangkok shopping mall left two people dead and raised fresh questions about the kingdom’s gun control. Shoppers returned in dribs and drabs as the Siam Paragon mall reopened less than 24 hours after the shooting — Thailand’s third high-profile deadly gun attack in four years. The shooting at one of Bangkok’s biggest, most […]
(Agence France Presse) — Three Filipino fishermen are dead after their boat was “rammed” by a foreign commercial vessel in the South China Sea, the Philippine Coast Guard said on Wednesday. The incident happened before dawn on Monday about 160 kilometres (100 miles) northwest of Scarborough Shoal, off the Philippines’ main island of Luzon. The fishing vessel was moored to a floating device known as a payao, which is used to catch fish. “The mother […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 3, 2023 (AFP) – The United States announced sanctions Tuesday on a China-based network for producing and distributing chemicals used to make drugs including those fueling a deadly national fentanyl crisis. President Joe Biden’s administration has made the fight against fentanyl a priority, with the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in recent years. The sanctions targets include 25 individuals and entities based in China, alongside three other parties in […]
By Elias HUUHTANEN ITTOQQORTOORMIIT, Denmark, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – The thunder of icebergs crashing into the turquoise sea of eastern Greenland is the sound of one of the planet’s most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse. As the ice melts, the hunters in the village of Ittoqqortoormiit — home to one of the last Inuit hunting communities — worry where they will get water. Greenland’s ice sheets may hold one 12th of […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Agriculture on Tuesday said that rice production has increased, with the country with 52 days worth of rice supply by the end of September. DA Undersecretary Mercedita Sombilla made the statement to President Bongbong Marcos during a sectoral meeting in Malacañang where the basis for lifting the price ceiling on rice imposed under Executive Order (EO) No. 39 was discussed. Citing DA records, the Presidential Communications Office said that apart from […]
By Thomas URBAIN NEW YORK, Oct 3, 2023 (AFP) – The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of one of cryptocurrency’s biggest exchanges, began Tuesday with a jury set to determine if he committed massive fraud by stealing billions of dollars from clients. The 31-year-old — once one of the most respected figures in crypto — now faces decades in prison and could see his name stand alongside Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes as the […]
(Eagle News)–Signal No. 3 remains in effect over the northern portion of Batanes even as “Jenny” slightly weakened on Wednesday morning. Signal No. 2, meanwhile, is raised over the rest of Batanes and the northern portion of Babuyan Islands as the typhoon moves west northwestward, packing maximum sustained winds of 150 kph near the center and a gustiness of 185 kph. The rest of Babuyan Islands, the northern portion of mainland Cagayan (Santa Ana, Ginzaga, […]
By Stuart WILLIAMS PARIS, Oct 3, 2023 (AFP) – An Iranian girl aged 16 has been left in a coma and is being treated in hospital under heavy security after an assault on the Tehran subway, a rights group said on Tuesday, blaming the Islamic republic’s notorious morality police. The Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw said the teenager, named as Armita Garawand, had been badly injured in a confrontation on the Tehran metro with female police […]
By Andréa BAMBINO NEW YORK, Oct 3, 2023 (AFP) – The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial slapped a limited gag order on the former president after he insulted a court clerk in a social media post on Tuesday. “Personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable,” Judge Arthur Engoron said as Trump sat at the defense table during the second day of his high-profile trial in a Manhattan courtroom. […]
