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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Rescuers plucked more than 100 people from their roofs Monday after a flash flood swamped a small Australian town and sent residents scurrying for safety, officials said. A weekend downpour over much of the already-sodden eastern state of New South Wales sent waters rising overnight, isolating some towns and communities. Australia’s east coast has been repeatedly swept by heavy rainfall in the past two years, driven by back-to-back La Niña cycles. Many […]
Tokyo, Japan | AFP | Around 5:14 PM a magnitude 6.1 #earthquake struck the coast of #Mie prefecture #Japan. Tremors were felt as far away as #Ibaraki and #Fukushima. No tsunami advisory has been issued. U.S. citizens in the area should monitor local media for information and train and travel delays. pic.twitter.com/5rkLRTv6Fa — U.S. Embassy Tokyo, ACS (@ACSTokyo) November 14, 2022 Earthquake of Magnitude:6.1, Occurred on 14-11-2022, 13:38:26 IST, Lat: 33.75 & Long: 137.41, Depth: […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – France and the UK on Monday signed a new agreement to work together to stop migrants crossing the Channel to England in small boats, a source of huge bilateral tension. Under the agreement, Britain will pay France 72.2 million euros ($74.5 million) in 2022-2023 so that Paris can increase by 40 percent the numbers of security forces patrolling its northern beaches, the French interior ministry said. This means some 350 additional members […]
WUSTERHAUSEN, Germany (AFP) – On a street in Wusterhausen, around an hour’s drive north of Berlin, a man paces intently, holding his mobile phone in front of him. “I’m looking for network, because here this area is not good,” says Arek Karasinski, in town on a business trip from Poland. Issues with phone signal are a source of constant frustration for the residents of Wusterhausen, which sits in one of Germany’s many blackspots, out of reach of […]
by Louis GENOT Agence France-Presse RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected this week at the UN climate summit in Egypt to pledge to reverse the environmental policies of his right-wing predecessor and protect the Amazon rainforest. Lula’s trip Monday to the COP27 talks in Sharm el-Sheikh will be his first international visit since beating Brazil’s far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the October 30 […]
by Andrew BEATTY / Sebastian Smith Agence France-Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) — US President Joe Biden meets China’s Xi Jinping in Bali on Monday hoping to set “guardrails” for relations between the countries, as the world’s 20 largest economies hold their first major post-pandemic summit. The superpower sitdown will be Biden’s first in-person summit with Xi since taking office. The pair last met in 2017, when Biden was vice president. The leaders meet with […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) – Hong Kong’s government reacted with fury on Monday after a popular democracy protest song was played instead of the Chinese national anthem for the city’s team at a rugby sevens tournament in South Korea. The city’s sports teams play the Chinese national anthem, but before Hong Kong took on South Korea in the final of the Asia Rugby Sevens Series in Incheon on Sunday, “Glory to Hong Kong” was played instead. […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Joel Embiid scored 59 points to carry the Philadelphia 76ers to a 105-98 victory over Utah on Sunday, just one of two 50-point performances that lit up the NBA night. Cleveland guard Darius Garland scored 27 of his 51 points in the fourth quarter, but his heroics weren’t enough to prevent the Cavaliers from surrendering their first defeat on their home floor, 129-124 to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Embiid’s epic […]
(Eagle News) — A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Eastern Samar on Monday, Nov. 14. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake hit at 6:54 a.m. The depth of focus was 45 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News) — The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is affecting Southern Mindanao. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services, as a result, Metro Manila will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms. The rest of the country will also have the same conditions. Meanwhile, PAGASA said flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms are possible. The weather bureau said the whole country will have light to moderate winds […]
KHERSON, Ukraine (AFP) – President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Ukrainian forces that retook the city of Kherson found evidence of new war crimes by Russian occupiers. “The Russian army left behind the same atrocities as in other regions of our country,” he said in a nightly address. “Investigators have already documented more than 400 war crimes,” the Ukrainian leader said, without clearly specifying the area in which they were found. “The bodies of the killed […]
DOHA, Qatar (AFP) – Home to gleaming skyscrapers and upmarket shopping malls, World Cup host Qatar is also a conservative Muslim country deeply attached to its customs and traditions. Here are some of the cultural conventions football fans should know when visiting the gas-rich Gulf emirate, which, like other Arab nations, prides itself on its hospitality. – Greetings and handshakes – In public places, it is customary to stand up when greeting others, particularly the elderly, […]
