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Russia says German Leopard tanks, US Bradleys captured in Ukraine

MOSCOW, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – Moscow said Tuesday that it had captured several German Leopard tanks and US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, releasing footage showing Russian troops surveying the equipment supplied to Ukraine by Western countries. “Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. These are our trophies. Equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Zaporizhzhia region,” the Russian defence ministry said in a statement. “Servicemen of the Vostok group inspect enemy tanks and […]

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6,000 Myanmar civilians killed in 20 months post coup: report

OSLO, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – More than 6,000 civilians were killed in Myanmar in the first 20 months after the February 2021 military coup, a report published Tuesday by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo said. “Our data shows that the human toll of the conflict is higher than previously reported, and while the junta is clearly the main killer, anti-junta forces also have large amounts of blood on their hands,” Stein Tonnesson, one […]

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Nine injured in Denver shooting near Nuggets win celebrations

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – Nine people were shot and injured and a suspect put in custody in the US city of Denver, police said early Tuesday, after a shooting near the arena where the Nuggets won their first NBA title. Three victims were in critical condition and the others sustaining non-life-threatening injuries, the Denver Police Department said on Twitter. The shooting occurred about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Ball Arena, where the […]

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‘Friend’ and ‘fighter’: World remembers Italy’s Berlusconi

PARIS, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who dominated Italian politics for decades, died on Monday aged 86, drawing tributes from across the world. Here is a roundup of reactions ranging from Russian President Vladimir Putin to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: – ‘True friend’ – Putin hailed Berlusconi as a “true friend” and described his death as an “irreparable loss and a great sorrow”. “For me, Silvio was a cherished […]

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South Africa in the spotlight over terror funding

JOHANNESBURG, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – South Africa has never been touched by Islamist attacks. Its three-decade-old democracy is solid, and its financial system is respected. Yet experts say the continent’s most industrialised nation is now a nerve centre for jihadist financing in Africa. “South Africa is open hunting ground,” Pretoria-based counter-terrorism expert Jasmine Opperman told AFP. Islamist financiers gather money in the country and transfer it into “the hands of terrorism,” she said, adding […]

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Ex-Samsung exec charged with stealing chip tech for China factory

SEOUL, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – South Korea has charged a former Samsung executive accused of stealing company secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to set up a copycat chip factory in China, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday. Semiconductors have become a flashpoint issue between the United States and China, which are locked in a fierce battle over access to chip-making technology and supplies. South Korean prosecutors said the 65-year-old former Samsung employee allegedly […]

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Man held after three killed in UK’s Nottingham

NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – Police arrested a man Tuesday after three people were found dead and a van tried to mow down three others in the central English city of Nottingham in incidents authorities believe are linked. Nottingham’s centre was cordoned off, with a heavy police presence, including some armed officers following the events that left residents shaken. A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said. Prime […]

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India denies threatening Twitter with shutdown

NEW DELHI, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – India on Tuesday denied claims it had threatened to shut down Twitter inside the country if it did not block accounts critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The world’s biggest democracy petitions Twitter for content removals more than almost any other country, and the platform regularly takes down or blocks content at the request of Indian authorities. Former chief executive Jack Dorsey said Monday that the platform […]

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Body pulled from debris of US interstate collapse

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – A body was recovered from the debris of a collapsed overpass on one of the busiest highways in the United States, authorities said Monday, after a tanker crossing underneath burst into flames. On Sunday the vehicle carrying gasoline crashed and caught fire in northeast Philadelphia on Interstate 95, a major artery connecting large cities along the US East Coast. Parts of an elevated roadway fell onto lanes below, with […]

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Tens of thousands evacuated as cyclone menaces India and Pakistan

AHMEDABAD, India, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – More than 40,000 people have been evacuated across India and Pakistan as a cyclone approaches their coast, officials said Tuesday, with gales of up to 150 kilometres per hour predicted. The cyclone — named Biparjoy, meaning “disaster” in Bengali — is making its way across the Arabian Sea and is forecast to make landfall as a “very severe cyclonic storm”, government weather monitors warned. In Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh […]

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Cult followers repatriated from Ethiopia to Uganda: ministry

KAMPALA, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – Ugandan authorities said Tuesday that 80 followers of a religious cult from the country’s east had been deported from Ethiopia where they travelled believing they would find salvation through starving. The followers of Church Christ Disciples from Soroti travelled to Ethiopia in February after their pastor claimed they would find Jesus there after 40 days of fasting, said a spokesman for Uganda’s internal affairs ministry. “Working with the Ethiopian […]

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Ukrainian farmers mourn animals and crops lost in flood

By Yulia Silina Agence France-Presse AFANASIYIVKA, Ukraine, June 13, 2023 (AFP) — Yuriy, a 56-year-old Ukrainian farmer, stands chest-deep in water in his village of Afanasiyivka, gazing around in bewilderment. A week ago, he was growing vegetables and fruit and grazing his cows. Now his land in the Mykolaiv region is deep under murky green water. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam has caused massive flooding in the regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv. The […]

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