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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | AFP | by Robbie Corey-Boulet Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, who was named prime minister late on Tuesday, has shaken up the ultraconservative oil titan with economic, social and religious reforms since his meteoric rise to power. The 37-year-old de facto ruler has overseen the most fundamental transformation in the modern history of the Gulf nation and sidelined all rivals after he became crown prince in June 2017. But he has […]
Danang, Vietnam | AFP | by Tran Thi Minh Ha Typhoon Noru tore roofs from homes and caused power outages across central Vietnam Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of people taking refuge, after the storm claimed at least 10 lives in the Philippines. In Danang, Vietnam’s third-largest city, high-rise buildings shook as the typhoon made landfall in the early hours of Wednesday, bringing winds of up to around 120 kilometres (75 miles) per hour, […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) – The Kremlin said Wednesday it was “stupid and absurd” to suspect that Russia was behind gas leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines to Europe, deemed to be a “deliberate act” by the EU. “It’s quite predictable and also predictably stupid to give voice to these kinds of narratives — predictably stupid and absurd,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters after Ukraine said the leaks were a “terrorist attack” by Moscow. Peskov […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) – Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Wednesday he does not see it as “a dry spell” or “end of the world” if he fails to win a race this season. The Briton has struggled all year in his Mercedes and ahead of Sunday night’s race in Singapore is well out of the running for another world title, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen on the cusp of retaining […]
Paris, France (AFP) — The asteroid is flying through space in the grainy black and white video, when suddenly a massive cloud of debris sprays out in front of it, meaning only one thing: impact. Astronomers have hailed this early footage of the first time humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, saying it looks like it did a “lot of damage”. That would be good news, because NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) […]
The opening of the new state-of-the-art terminal building at Clark International Airport signals to the world that the Philippines is open for business. pic.twitter.com/nphLhr0IFp — Bongbong Marcos (@bongbongmarcos) September 28, 2022 MANILA – The Clark International Airport’s (CRK) new passenger terminal building is a “strong signal” to the world that the Philippines is open for business, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said Wednesday. Marcos made this remark during the grand opening of the CRK’s […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) – Equities and crude prices fell while the dollar held at multi-year highs Wednesday as recession fears mount, and traders grow increasingly concerned about tensions between Russia and the West. Investors are keeping a close eye on London, after new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax-cutting last week sent shock waves through markets, pushing the pound to a record low and leading to dire warnings for Britain’s economy. While Asia saw small […]
Kharkiv, Ukraine | AFP | by Dave CLARK Russia fired a salvo of missiles at Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv overnight, officials said on Wednesday, hitting a railway yard and knocking out power to more than 18,000 households. Kharkiv governor Oleg Synegubov said Russian forces had fired S-300 missiles, an anti-aircraft weapon now often re-purposed to hit civilian targets in Ukrainian cities. The Kharkiv regional emergency service said the blasts, which were audible in the city […]
– Seoul, South Korea | AFP | North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday, Seoul’s military said, just days after Pyongyang’s last test and ahead of a visit to South Korea by US Vice President Kamala Harris. The launches, part of a record-breaking blitz of weapons tests this year by North Korea, came after Seoul’s spy agency warned that Pyongyang was close to conducting another nuclear test. South Korea’s military said it […]
Hurricane #Ian Advisory 22: Air Force Hurricane Hunters Find Ian Has Strengthened Into An Extremely Dangerous Category 4 Hurricane. Expected to Cause Life-Threatening Storm Surge, Catastrophic Winds and Flooding in the Florida Peninsula. https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB — National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 28, 2022 Here are the 5 AM EDT 9/28 Key Messages for Category 4 Hurricane #Ian. More info: https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ pic.twitter.com/pfjRjEncLC — National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 28, 2022 Tampa, United States | AFP | Hurricane […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – Earth’s climate is changing so quickly that humanity is running out of chances to fix it, primatologist Jane Goodall has warned in an interview. Goodall, a grandee of environmentalism whose activism has spanned decades, said time was rapidly shortening to halt the worst effects of human-caused global warming. “We are literally approaching a point of no return,” Goodall told AFP in Los Angeles. “Look around the world at what’s […]
by Christophe VOGT / Elodie LE MAOU Agence France Presse Geneva, Switzerland (AFP) — Switzerland’s glaciers lost six percent of their total volume this year due to a dry winter and repeated summer heatwaves, shattering previous ice melt records, a report revealed Wednesday. The study by the Cryospheric Commission (CC) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences laid bare the drastic scale of glacial retreat — which is only set to get worse. “2022 was a […]
