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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Six children and two adults were suspended inside a cable car dangling over a deep valley in Pakistan for several hours on Tuesday, as a military helicopter hovered nearby. The children were using the chairlift to cross the valley to get to school when a cable broke at a height of up to 1,200 feet (about 365 metres) midway through its journey in a remote, mountainous part of […]
One of the world’s oldest elephants has died on an Indian tea farm at an estimated age of 89, caretakers said Tuesday. While not possible to confirm the elephant’s exact age, it is known that he was brought to work on a tea estate by a British farmer during colonial rule in the 1940s. Caretakers said he was about 89 years old. Dubbed “Bijuli Prasad” — in the style of human Indian names — the […]
Hunters in Japan’s remote north have killed an elusive and infamous brown bear nicknamed “Ninja” that attacked at least 66 cows, officials said Tuesday. The exploits of “OSO18”, as the bear was named, attracted considerable news coverage including dramatic television documentaries. The animal is believed to have started attacking livestock in 2019 in eastern areas of Hokkaido, Japan’s sparsely populated main northern island. Its habit of not eating the dairy cows that it attacked — […]
Russia’s first Moon mission in almost 50 years, the Luna-25 probe, has crashed on the Moon’s surface after an unspecified incident during pre-landing manoeuvres, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Sunday. The crash comes almost a year and a half into Russia’s Ukraine offensive that has seen Moscow isolated, with punishing sanctions that have affected its space industry. The failed mission also comes as several companies and nations have entered a Moon race, and put […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un slammed his cabinet’s “irresponsible” handling of flooding, blaming them for recent storm damage in the isolated country, state media reported Tuesday. Tropical Storm Khanun made landfall earlier this month in the North, a country where natural disasters can be devastating due to weak infrastructure and widespread deforestation, which increases vulnerability to flooding. A damaged embankment and inadequate drainage system resulted in seawater flooding more than 560 hectares (about 1,400 […]
By Nina LARSON PONTIMIA PASTURE, Switzerland, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Using a powerful torch, Aliki Buhayer-Mach momentarily drenches a nearby mountain top in light, straining to see if wolves are lurking in the shadows. If the predator were to get past the electric wires stretched around this high-altitude pasture in the Swiss Alps, the 57-year-old biologist knows “it would be a massacre”. She and her 60-year-old husband Francois Mach-Buhayer — a leading Swiss cardiologist […]
By Natsuko FUKUE, Hiroshi HIYAMA TOKYO, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Japan will begin releasing cooling water from the stricken Fukushima power plant on Thursday, 12 years after one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. The announcement came despite opposition from fishermen and protests by China, which has already banned food shipments from several Japanese prefectures. Japan insists the gradual release into the sea of the more than 500 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of water […]
GENEVA, Aug 21, 2023 (AFP) – Artificial Intelligence is more likely to augment jobs than to destroy them, a UN study indicated on Monday, at a time of growing anxiety over the potential impact of the technology. The launch in November of the generative AI platform ChatGPT, which is capable of handling complex tasks on command, was seen as a tech landmark foreshadowing a potentially dramatic transformation of the workplace. But a fresh study from […]
TOKYO, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – North Korea has informed Japan it plans to launch a satellite in the coming days, Tokyo said Tuesday, less than three months after a failed effort saw a military satellite plunge into the sea. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida urged Pyongyang to call it off, saying his country was working with South Korea and the United States to gather more information on the sanctions-busting launch. Tokyo is taking “all possible […]
BANGKOK, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Thailand’s divisive ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra returned to the kingdom Tuesday, after 15 years in exile and hours before parliament votes for a new prime minister. The billionaire landed in a private jet at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport at 9 am (0200 GMT), to be greeted by hundreds of noisy “Red Shirt” supporters waving banners and singing songs. Thaksin emerged briefly from the terminal building to bow and offer a […]
BANGKOK, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Thailand’s divisive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra touched down by private jet in Bangkok on Tuesday, local media reported, returning to the kingdom after 15 years in exile. Public broadcaster Thai PBS said he arrived at 9:00 am (0200 GMT) and showed footage of the plane at Don Mueang airport. This is a developing story.
By Shaun TANDON WASHINGTON, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – With a historic three-way summit with Japan and South Korea, President Joe Biden has further deepened the web of US partnerships in a determined signal to adversaries despite question marks on the political climate at home. Since Biden took office in 2021, NATO has expanded and mostly closed ranks over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and, in clear if unstated responses to an assertive China, the […]
