WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A police officer died and another was wounded in a shooting at a traffic stop in San Diego, police said Friday. A Hispanic man was later taken into custody, San Diego police chief Shelley Zimmerman told a news conference. He was not immediately identified, but Zimmerman said he is now in the hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the upper torso. “We are still actively investigating the […]
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Six more officials charged in Flint water scandal
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) – Authorities in the US state of Michigan filed criminal charges Friday against six current and former state officials over lead water contamination in the city of Flint, signaling that their probe is expanding. “Many things went tragically wrong in Flint. Some failed to act,” Michigan State Attorney General Bill Schuette told a news conference as he announced the new charges. “Some intentionally altered figures, and covered up.” More than 8,000 […]
Save the Children-supported Syria maternity hospital bombed
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) – A maternity hospital supported by Save the Children was bombed Friday in an air raid in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, causing casualties and damage, the Britain-based charity said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a jihadist from Al-Nusra Front, which has changed its name to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, was killed in the raid. “Save the Children supported maternity hospital in #Idlib bombed, casualties reported – numbers unconfirmed,” the charity tweeted. […]
Turkish universities feel force of purge
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) – by Pascale TROUILLAUD With deans forced to resign and academics in custody or dismissed, Turkish universities are among the hardest-hit targets of the purge launched after the failed coup. Days after the attempted overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, authorities shut down 15 private universities and demanded that 1,577 deans resign — an earthquake for the higher education sector. Turkey has enforced a three-month state of emergency and is determined to […]
Clinton, Trump take White House fight to swing states
PHILADELPHIA, United States (AFP) – by Ivan Couronne with Jennie Matthew in New York Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Friday take their fight for the White House to battleground states seeking to capitalize on back-to-back party conventions that offered starkly different visions of America. The Democrat and first woman nominee for a major party will tour Pennsylvania and Ohio by bus, while Trump jets to Colorado, where his plan to build a wall on the […]
Brewer SABMiller accepts AB InBev final offer: company
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Brewer SABMiller’s board on Friday accepted a final takeover offer from rival Anheuser-Busch InBev, the company said in a statement, heralding what will be one of the world’s biggest ever takeovers. The Belgium-based AB InBev had raised its cash offer to 45 pounds per share from 44 pounds, in a revised proposal tabled after the value of the pound slumped following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. SABMiller Chairman Jan du […]
US ties four Zika cases in Florida to local mosquitoes
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – by Kerry SHERIDAN Four cases of Zika virus in Florida are likely the first to be transmitted locally by mosquitoes in the United States, officials said Friday, marking a new phase in the fast-growing pandemic. Until now, more than 1,600 cases of Zika — which can cause birth defects — have been recorded in the mainland United States but most were brought in by people who had become infected […]
Indonesia executes one local, 3 foreign drug convicts
by Muhammad Azka CILACAP, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia executed four drug convicts Friday but 10 others due to face the firing squad were given an apparent reprieve in a confused process one lawyer condemned as a “complete mess”. The executions on a remote prison island went ahead despite strong protests from international rights groups, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the European Union who had urged Indonesia not to proceed. Four inmates — three Nigerians […]
WHO chief going to the Olympics, says Zika risk low
BEIJING (Reuters) – The risk of Zika virus infections at the Olympic Games is both low and manageable, the chief of the World Health Organization said on Friday, a week before the event kicks off in Rio de Janeiro. Nearly half a million people are expected to visit for the Games, many from the United States. Worries about security, the Zika virus and an economic crisis could deter travelers, with just under a third […]
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INC holds blood donation drive in Logan City, Queensland, Australia
QUEENSLAND, Australia (Eagle News) — Iglesia Ni Cristo volunteers in Logan City, Queensland, Australia joined together to donate blood through Canadian blood services.
