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LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AFP) — The toll from this month’s ferry disaster off the coast of Gabon has risen to 26 dead after two more bodies were recovered on Monday, the public prosecutors office said. The toll update came 11 days after the ferry, carrying 161 passengers and crew from the capital Libreville to the oil town of Port-Gentil, went down at night ten kilometres (six miles) from shore. Eleven passengers remain missing, the prosecutor said. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “We need to get to the bottom of Covid-19’s origins…, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Biden said in a statement. “In implementing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — Letter bombs addressed to journalists were sent to three TV stations in violence-plagued Ecuador Monday, one of which exploded without causing casualties, officials and the outlets reported. The prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation into the crime of “terrorism,” without stating why the three stations were specifically targeted, or by whom. In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV station received an envelope […]
The record drought sweeping the Horn of Africa may lead to 135 deaths a day in Somalia between January and June this year, the health ministry, WHO and UNICEF said in a study released Monday. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that nearly 100,000 people in the fragile country were facing catastrophic levels of hunger due to the worst drought to hit the region in four decades. Monday’s study used a statistical […]
Blackpink is set to return to the Philippines for a two-night concert at the Philippine Arena this weekend, March 25 and 26, 2023. The all-female K-pop group composed of Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa will perform in the world’s largest indoor arena as part of their “Born Pink” world tour. Fans can expect an energetic performance from Blackpink as they take over the Philippine concert stage once again. The tickets for the concert have been […]
Zurich, Switzerland | AFP | Monday 3/20/2023 UBS share price plunged on Monday as a deal to take over its troubled Swiss rival Credit Suisse for $3.25 billion failed to calm stock market nerves. The buyout, in which Switzerland’s biggest bank will take over the second largest, was vital to prevent economic turmoil from spreading throughout the country and beyond, the Swiss government said Sunday. But investors remained on edge, with UBS shares falling as […]
Kuwait City, Kuwait | AFP | Monday 3/20/2023 The Kuwait Oil Company declared a “state of emergency” on Monday following an oil spill on land, but said no injuries or disruption to production had been reported. The emergency followed an “oil leak in the west of the country”, the state-owned company said in a statement, as video posted by Kuwaiti media showed a gushing pipe surrounded by a large slick of oil. “No injuries have […]
by Hillary ORINDE Agence France-Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Kenyan riot police were out in force Monday for a day of action called by the opposition to protest the country’s cost of living crisis, despite a ban on the demonstrations. In one part of Nairobi’s biggest slum Kibera, demonstrators set tires alight, while several youths were arrested at one of the venues for the demonstrations in the capital, AFP journalists saw. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan’s ex-president Ma Ying-jeou will travel to China next week, his spokesman said Monday, in the first cross-strait visit by a current or former leader of the island in more than 70 years. Ma will not visit Beijing and has no current plans to meet Chinese government officials, the spokesman added. China claims self-ruled, democratic Taiwan as part of its territory to be seized one day, by force if necessary. The […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — South Africa braced for protests on Monday after a left-wing party called for a “national shut-down”, sparking fears of a repeat of unrest that turned deadly two years ago. Authorities said there would be a heavy police presence to deal with any possible violence, after the third largest party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) urged South Africans to take to the streets and bring the country to a halt. “The […]
(Eagle News) — Another suspect in the killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo has surrendered, Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos said. Abalos said the suspect, whom he did not identify, is now under the custody of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He said he would be turned over to the National Bureau of Investigation. With the recent arrest, authorities are now only looking for four suspects who remain at large. Authorities have said ten […]
INDIAN WELLS, United States (AFP) — Daniil Medvedev, routed in straight sets by Carlos Alcaraz in the Indian Wells final, says the 19-year-old Spaniard has “100%” earned his return to number one in the world, despite the absence of Novak Djokovic. Alcaraz’s first Indian Wells triumph — his third Masters 1000 title — will move him back to the summit he held at the end of last year after his US Open triumph made him […]
