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News in photo: Heavy flooding in Vietnam
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Stampede kills 24 at religious gathering in India
by Sanjay Kanojia VARANASI, India | AFP | — A stampede at a religious gathering in northern India killed at least 24 people Saturday as thousands of devotees of a controversial guru tried to cross a bridge at once, police said. The followers of Jai Gurudev, a leader of a local religious sect, had gathered on the outskirts of Varanasi, a Hindu holy town in Uttar Pradesh state, when the deadly stampede broke out. […]
11 dead in Vietnam floods: state media
HANOI, Vietnam | AFP |– At least 11 people have died and several more are missing in heavy flooding in central Vietnam, state media said Saturday, with tens of thousands of homes completely submerged by water. The communist government has ordered local authorities to mobilise the army and police to rescue trapped residents following heavy downpours, state-run Vietnam Television reported. The channel said at least 11 had died in the flooding with some 27,000 […]
10 areas under Signal No. 3 as typhoon “Karen” intensifies; to make landfall on Aurora Sunday
(Eagle News) — Ten provinces have been placed under Signal number 3 as typhoon “Karen,” international name Sarika, further intensified as it continued to threaten the province of Aurora. The typhoon is expected to pass close to Polillo Islands tonight and make landfall over Aurora early Sunday morning (October 16). The provinces placed under public storm warning signal number three are: Pangasinan, Northern Zambales, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Aurora, Northern Quezon including Polilio Island, La […]
One dead as Philippines faces ‘most damaging typhoon’
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) – At least one person was killed and three were missing as the Philippines faces what could be “the most damaging” storm this year in the approaching Typhoon Sarika, officials said Saturday. A man was found dead on the seashore while three fishermen were reported missing in the eastern island of Catanduanes as Sarika, packing maximum winds of 180 kilometres (112 miles) per hour, passed nearby, the civil defence office said. […]
Duterte says Philippines will maintain its military alliances
(Reuters) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday (October 12) his country would maintain its existing defence treaties and its military alliances, adding to uncertainty and confusion over the status of security ties with the United States. In an apparent break from a weeks-long torrent of anti-American rhetoric, Duterte suggested defence alliances would continue and his foreign policy was to “realign”, but reiterated joint exercises with U.S. troops, a decades-old tradition, would be stopped. […]
African leaders tackle piracy, illegal fishing at Lome summit
Lome, Togo (AFP) – Stemming the astronomical losses caused by crime in the oceans surrounding Africa is the focus of a major continental summit on Saturday in the Togolese capital, Lome. “Over recent decades, the accumulated revenue losses resulting directly from illegal activities in the African maritime sector add up to hundreds of billions of US dollars, without counting the loss of human lives,” the African Union (AU) said in an online statement about its […]
China, Bangladesh lift ties to strategic partnership of cooperation
Dhaka, Bangladesh (Reuters) — Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday and the two leaders agreed to upgrade bilateral ties to a strategic partnership of cooperation. During the meeting, Xi said that the closer comprehensive partnership of cooperation the two sides forged in 2010 has yielded fruitful results, with bilateral cooperation advancing steadily in political, economic, cultural, and security, as well as on international and regional affairs. […]
In Lebanon, saving the hearts of Syrian refugee babies
Sidon, Lebanon (AFP) –by Sara Hussein Nine-month-old Amena al-Helou’s skin sizzles as the surgeon cauterises an incision in her chest, beginning a heart operation at a south Lebanon hospital to save the Syrian refugee’s life. She is just one of dozens of refugees treated each year by Lebanon’s leading paediatric heart surgeon Issam al-Rassi, who each week sets aside a day to operate on Syrian and Palestinian refugees. But for all his efforts, including on occasion […]
Football: Wales’s Evans cleared of rape at retrial
London, United Kingdom (AFP) -by Julian GUYER Wales international footballer Ched Evans was found not guilty of rape by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday following a retrial. Evans, who plays for English third-tier club Chesterfield, was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room near Rhyl, north Wales, in May 2011. The 27-year-old was previously found guilty of rape, but the jury was told that the Court of Appeal had […]
