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by Anna MALPAS Agence France Presse MOSCO, Russia (AFP) — Russian rescuers Tuesday pulled a baby boy hurt but alive from the ruins of an apartment building where he spent the night in sub-zero temperatures after a gas explosion that killed at least nine people. With dozens of inhabitants still missing, authorities identified the 10-month-old boy as Ivan Fokine, and said he had been reunited in hospital with his mother, who also survived the ordeal. […]
by Robin MILLARD / Joe JACKSON Agence France Presse MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — A British probe into a stabbing at a Manchester railway station on New Year’s Eve which injured three people is being treated as “a terrorist investigation”, the city’s police force said on Tuesday. The 25-year-old man who was arrested at the scene on Monday night is now being detained under a mental health law, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said late Tuesday. […]
by Hiroshi HIYAMA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nine people were hurt, one seriously, when a man deliberately ploughed his car into crowds celebrating New Year’s Eve along a famous Tokyo street, police and media said Tuesday. With an “intent to murder”, a man identified as 21-year-old Kazuhiro Kusakabe drove a small vehicle into Takeshita Street in Tokyo’s fashion district of Harajuku at 10 minutes past midnight, a police spokesman told AFP. According […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The presidents of China and the US have exchanged messages vowing to boost cooperation despite a bruising trade war on the 40th anniversary of the countries’ diplomatic relations, Chinese state media reported. Tensions between Beijing and Washington soared in 2018 over trade disputes, although US President Donald Trump has frozen the latest planned tariff hike and on Saturday reported “big progress” after a call with his counterpart Xi Jinping. In the […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — A Taiwanese tax reform campaign whose activists dress in yellow ramped up its protests Tuesday, interrupting a New Year flag-raising ceremony attended by the president, partially inspired by the recent success of France’s “yellow vests”. France has been severely rattled by six weeks of often violent demonstrations from “gilets jaunes” protesters, named after the high-visibility vests supporters have adopted. The movement forced French President Emmanuel Macron to jettison his controversial fuel […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Rescuers are searching for survivors after a landslide triggered by heavy rain left at least 15 people dead and dozens missing in western Indonesia, an official said Tuesday. The landslide occurred shortly before sunset on Monday in West Java province. Search and rescue teams said they have found 15 people dead and are scouring the area for at least 25 missing. Pouring rain, power cuts and rough roads are preventing heavy […]
by Jung Hawon Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Nuclear-armed North Korea wants good relations with the US but could consider a change of approach if Washington maintains its sanctions, leader Kim Jong Un warned in his New Year speech Tuesday after 12 months of diplomatic rapprochement. At a summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore in June the two signed a vaguely worded pledge on denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. But […]
TAMPA, United States (AFP) — An unmanned NASA spacecraft sent a signal back to Earth Tuesday that it successfully made it through a risky flyby past the most distant planetary object ever studied, the US space agency said. “We have a healthy spacecraft,” said Alice Bowman, missions operations manager for the New Horizons spacecraft, which zipped by Ultima Thule at 12:33 am (0533 GMT) on New Year’s Day. “We have just accomplished the most distant […]
by Louis GENOT, with Marc BURLEIGH in Rio de Janeiro Agence France Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro declared a crusade against crime, corruption and leftwing ideology as he took office Tuesday for a four-year term at the helm of Latin America’s biggest nation. In his first public speech wearing the presidential sash, Boslonaro said Brazil will “start to free itself of socialism” and “political correctness,” breaking with policies brought […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump congratulated Brazil’s new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro as he took office Tuesday for a four-year term at the helm of Latin America’s most powerful nation. “Congratulations to President @jairbolsonaro who just made a great inauguration speech – the U.S.A. is with you!” Trump wrote on Twitter. © Agence France-Presse
(Eagle News)–Twenty-three people, including seven policemen, will face charges for illegally firing their guns during the holidays, the Philippine National Police said. In a statement, PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said apart from the policemen, two government officials, one member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, 10 civilians, two security guards, and one law enforcement agent will face charges for discharging their firearms from December 16, 2018 to January 1, 2019. “As I have promised, there […]
(Eagle News)—-Less incidents of stray bullets were reported during these New Year celebrations, the Philippine National Police said. PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said there has only been one incident of stray bullet, which caused a minor injury on one person in Cagayan De Oro City. He said injuries as a result of firecrackers also decreased by 80 percent–from 188 cases in 2017 to 36 cases. Albayalde said incidents of illegal discharge of firearms, however, increased–from seven cases […]
