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MEXICO CITY, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – At least ten people, including three children, were killed and 60 more injured when the roof of a church came crashing down on a baptism in northeastern Mexico on Sunday, authorities said. The disaster struck the coastal town of Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas state, with a Red Cross rescuer telling local media that 80 people had been in attendance at the Santa Cruz parish when the roof caved […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Oct 1, 2023 (AFP) – The UN Security Council will decide on Monday whether to endorse an international force to back Haiti’s police as they battle entrenched criminal gangs, according to a published agenda. For the past year, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have called for such a force to address the country’s spiraling security crisis. But given the challenges faced by past peacekeeping efforts in […]
By Pia OHLIN STOCKHOLM, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Researchers Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking Covid-19 vaccines. The pair, who had been tipped as favourites, “contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times”, the jury said. The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a […]
By Joris FIORITI PARIS, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh have, after three decades of struggle, agreed to disarm, dissolve their government and reintegrate with Azerbaijan after Baku seized back control in late September. The collapse of the breakaway statelet could shift the balance of power in the region and has left Yerevan facing a raft of geopolitical concerns. – Russian ‘double-deals’ – Nearly all of Karabakh’s estimated 120,000 residents have now […]
MOSCOW, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – The Kremlin said on Monday that Western fatigue over Ukraine “will grow”, as the future of United States aid for Kyiv hung in the balance. A compromise struck in the US Congress over the weekend left out fresh funding for Ukraine due to opposition from hardline Republicans. “Fatigue over this conflict — fatigue from the completely absurd sponsorship of the Kyiv regime — will grow in various countries, including […]
MANILA, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – The United States and the Philippines launched annual joint naval war games on Monday, days after the latest diplomatic row between Manila and Beijing over the disputed South China Sea. More than a thousand sailors from the two allies are taking part in the annual “Samasama” (Tagalog for Together) anti-submarine, surface and electronic warfare drills off Manila and the south of Luzon, the main island of the Philippines. China’s […]
ISMAILIA, Egypt, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – A huge fire ripped through a regional police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Ismailia before dawn Monday, gutting the building and leaving at least 45 people injured. Authorities said they had launched a probe into the cause of the blaze that destroyed the Security Directorate building in the city 110 kilometres (70 miles) northeast of Cairo. Several people could be seen trapped inside the burning building, screaming […]
ROME, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Italian energy group Eni said Monday that it had made a significant gas find in Indonesia, off the coast of East Kalimantan. The company said preliminary studies had put the potential of the site at 140 billion cubic metres of gas (5 trillion cubic feet). The find came at the Geng North-1 exploration well drilled to a depth of 5,025 metres in 1,947 metres water depth in the […]
PARIS, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – France on Monday began Europe’s only vaccination campaign against bird flu in ducks, hoping to avoid mass culls of millions of birds that have dearly cost the industry in recent years. “There’s high pressure from the virus, but vaccination should mean we only face individual cases, avoiding the tidal wave sweeping through farms,” said Jocelyn Marguerie, poultry chief at the SNGTV farm vets’ association. The two-jab course for ducklings […]
By Andréa BAMBINO NEW YORK, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Former US president Donald Trump will appear in a New York court on Monday as a civil fraud trial against him and two of his sons kicks off, with the case threatening the Republican’s business empire as he campaigns to retake the White House. In Monday’s case, Judge Arthur Engoron has already ruled that Trump and his sons Eric and Don Jr. committed fraud by […]
JAKARTA, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Indonesia launched Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway on Monday, a delayed, multibillion-dollar project backed by China that President Joko Widodo hailed as “a symbol of our modernisation”. With a top speed of 350 kilometres (220 miles) per hour, the bullet train “Whoosh” can get between the capital Jakarta and Bandung in 45 minutes. The 140 km journey would previously have taken about three hours by train. “The Jakarta-Bandung high-speed […]
DHAKA, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever since the start of the year, official figures showed, in the country’s worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease. Dengue is a disease endemic to tropical areas that causes high fevers, headaches, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain and, in the most serious cases, bleeding that can lead to death. The World Health Organization has warned that dengue — and […]
