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NEW YORK , United States (AFP) — Red Hot Chili Peppers on Thursday announced their first album in five years, with the rockers switching producers but keeping their signature funky touches. The Los Angeles band, among leading figures in the alternative rock boom of the 1990s, said that its 11th studio album, “The Getaway,” would come out on June 17. The Chili Peppers immediately put out a single from the album, “Dark Necessities,” which opens […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — US Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the nation’s top Republican, said Thursday he was not ready to support Donald Trump as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee in the November election. “To be perfectly candid… I’m just not ready to do that at this point,” Ryan told CNN. “I am not there right now,” Ryan went on. “I hope to though, and I want to. But […]
by Michel COMTE WANDERING RIVER , Canada (AFP) — A handful of abandoned cars wrapped in yellow police ribbons still lined the ditches along the main roadway to Fort McMurray Thursday, days after a massive exodus from the wildfire-stricken Canadian city. The bumper-to-bumper traffic that had clogged the roadway in recent days has dissipated. Only a few government and emergency vehicles still speed up and down Highway 63, which has been closed to non-essential traffic […]
PYONGYANG , North Korea (AFP) — North Korea will Friday launch its highest-level ruling party meeting in almost 40 years, with delegates set to heap praise on its nuclear arsenal as a “precious sword” amid fears of a fresh atomic test. Leader Kim Jong-Un, who was not even born when the last Workers’ Party congress was held in 1980, is expected to deliver a keynote address which will be minutely scrutinised for any policy shift […]
by Karam al-Masri ALEPPO , Syria (AFP) — Air strikes killed at least 28 civilians Thursday in a camp for the displaced in northern Syria near the Turkish border as a 48-hour ceasefire took hold in Aleppo. The truce came after fierce violence in and around Aleppo and was made possible as President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and rebel forces gave in to mounting diplomatic pressure for a pause. But as relieved civilians went out onto […]
MANILA, Philippines — Malacanang has reiterated its commitment to rescue the remaining hostages being held by the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). According to reports, the group has circulated online a video showing the beheading of Canadian John Ridsdel last week. The ASG has also released a video of the remaining three captives pleading to the Canadian and Philippine governments to meet the group’s demands. Addressing the latest threat, Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) — A proposal for a higher, stronger White House fence was presented to Washington planning officials on Thursday (May 5) in a bid to halt fence-jumping security breaches at one of the world’s most heavily guarded buildings. The fence at the U.S. president’s residence will be roughly twice as high and include devices to detect intruders and block climbers, according to the presentation by the National Park Service and Secret […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – by Kerry Sheridan The United States Thursday issued a sweeping ban on sales of e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and hookahs to those under 18, marking the first time these products have been federally regulated. The ban will go into effect in 90 days, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, which described the final rule — issued after several years of study and debate — as “historic.” “As cigarette […]
LAC LA BICHE, Canada (AFP) – by Michel Comte Sitting on the tailgate of his truck, strumming his guitar, the only item that he was able to salvage in a hurried evacuation of Fort McMurray as wildfires raged closer to the Canadian oil city, Alan Javierto says: “I just want to go home.” “Hopefully soon,” he adds. “But probably it will take weeks, maybe more.” The wildfires that forced almost 100,000 to flee and […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — by Damian Wroclavsky A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Thursday suspended Eduardo Cunha, the senior lawmaker at the center of efforts to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, citing his attempt to obstruct a probe into his alleged corruption. The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress is the architect of the impeachment drive which is expected to see Rousseff forced to step aside from office on Wednesday. Cunha’s dramatic setback was not […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — by Olivier Baube German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged European leaders to protect EU borders or risk a “return to nationalism” as the continent battles its worst migration crisis since World War II. As Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi kicked off two days of talks in Rome with Merkel and senior EU officials, the German leader said Europe must defend its borders “from the Mediterranean to the North Pole” or suffer […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi police shot dead two suspected militants and two others blew themselves up during a raid near the holy city of Mecca on Thursday, the interior ministry said. “The terrorists started shooting towards security forces, which they responded to”, leading to the deaths of a pair of suspects while the others “committed suicide by blowing themselves up with suicide belts”, the ministry’s spokesman said in a statement. Police had surrounded the […]
