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Paris, France (AFP) A 69-year-old gunman who opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre and a hairdressing salon in Paris on Friday was deliberately seeking out foreigners, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. The man, a retired train driver, “was clearly targeting foreigners”, Darmanin told reporters, adding however that it was “not certain” that the man was aiming to kill “Kurds in particular”. Darmanin said: “We yet don’t know his exact motives.” There was also […]
CHONGQING, China (AFP) – “Deceased, deceased,” a staffer in full protective gear shouted as she handed a nurse a death certificate, their hospital in central China overflowing with Covid patients. China is battling a wave of infections that has hit the elderly hard, but has officially logged only a handful of deaths from the coronavirus after the government redefined the criteria by which Covid deaths are counted. At No. 5 People’s Hospital in Chongqing, the main […]
VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AFP) – At least two people died and some 400 homes have been damaged or destroyed in a fire that broke out Thursday in the Chilean seaside resort of Vina del Mar, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency. The flames, fanned by strong gusts of wind, spread from the upper areas of town down ravines and hills in the span of just a few hours to the lowest and […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source of leaks to the media, the company admitted Friday. TikTok has gone to great lengths to convince customers and governments of major markets like the United States that users’ data privacy is protected and that it poses no threat to national security. But parent company ByteDance told AFP […]
(Eagle News) — Cloudy skies and rains are expected in parts of the Philippines. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Adminisrtation, Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region, Aurora, Quezon, Camarines Norte, and Camarines Sur, in particular, will have cloudy skies with rains because of the northeast monsoon affecting Luzon. Flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains are possible. PAGASA said Visayas, Palawan, and the rest of Bicol Region […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – The YouTube video platform has won the right to broadcast most NFL football games in the US next year, it announced Thursday, a major win by the Google subsidiary that underscores the growing role of streaming in sports. Google will pay around $2 billion a year over seven years, US media reported, for the right to broadcast Sunday games on its subscription YouTube TV service, available only in the United […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – Even as animals and plants face widespread extinction from human-driven causes like climate change, the natural world continues to inspire scientific discovery in unexpected ways. “Nature has spent hundreds of millions of years optimizing elegant solutions to extremely complicated problems,” said Alon Gorodetsky, a biomedical engineer at the University of California, Irvine. “So if we look to nature, we can shortcut our development process and get to a valuable solution right away,” […]
(Eagle News) — President Bongbong Marcos has chosen Dante Osorio Tiñga as the chair of the Development Bank of the Philippines. Tiñga, a former Supreme Court associate justice, took his oath of office before Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin in Malacañang. Tiñga served as associate justice in the Supreme Court under then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s administration. He also served as dean of the University of the East College of Law.
SUVA, Fiji (AFP) — Fiji’s opposition on Friday accused the government of sowing “fear and chaos” in a bid to stay in power, as the military began deploying to the streets of the capital Suva. AFP reporters witnessed a small number of military vehicles on patrol, a day after Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama announced their mobilization to maintain “law and order”. The scene was otherwise calm with people going about last-minute holiday shopping. Formal naval […]
by Sebastien RICCI with Luna LIN and Holmes CHAN in Hong Kong Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has requisitioned medical supplies production across the country as millions struggle to obtain basic drugs and testing kits in the face of a surge in Covid-19 cases. Pharmacies in major cities have been stripped bare in the wake of the Chinese government’s sudden decision to lift years of lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing. Authorities have urged […]
by Richard Pierrin with Amelie Baron in Paris Agence France-Presse PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — His Haitian passport was in order, with up-to-date visas, so when police in the Dominican Republic detained him for hours, Josue Azor feels certain it was because of the black color of his skin. The arrest of the young photographer came amid a wave of expulsions of Haitian migrants by the Santo Domingo government, with Black people being specifically targeted, according […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – Men will take part in Olympic Games artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games with the decision hailed on Thursday as a “milestone” for the sport. Male swimmers will be eligible to compete in the eight-person team event with a maximum of two men in each team, officials said. “This announcement marks a milestone in artistic swimming history,” said Italy’s Giorgio Minisini, a world champion in 2017 and […]
