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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) – Sri Lanka ordered civil servants on Wednesday not to express opinions on social media after some officials claimed schoolchildren were fainting from a lack of food due to the country’s dire economic crisis. In a fresh order to 1.5 million state employees, the Ministry of Public Administration and Management said a long-established ban on speaking to reporters now extends to social media posts. “Expressing opinions on social media by a […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) – Rescuers were scouring the Himalayas by helicopter on Wednesday as they resumed the search for missing US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson on the slopes of Nepal’s Manaslu peak. Nelson slipped and disappeared while skiing down the world’s eighth-highest mountain, after a successful summit with her partner Jim Morrison on Monday. “Jim and others have left for an aerial search to find her. It is difficult to land or take off in […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) – Ukraine will “defend” citizens in Moscow-held regions which authorities said voted overwhelmingly for a merger with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. “We will act to protect our people: both in the Kherson region, in the Zaporizhzhia region, in the Donbas, in the currently occupied areas of the Kharkiv region, and in the Crimea,” he said in a video posted on Telegram. “This farce in the occupied territory cannot even […]
Bogotá, Colombia (AFP) — From anthropomorphic figurines to 1,500-year-old Indigenous necklaces, Colombia has recently repatriated 274 ancient objects from the United States. Colombia’s embassy in Washington has been collecting the artifacts from around the United States since 2018 thanks to “seizures” and voluntary “returns by collectors,” Alhena Caicedo, director of Colombia’s ICANH anthropology and history institute, told AFP. The pottery, stone and seashell objects, made by Indigenous communities between 500 BC and 500 AD, were […]
CHAPEL HILL, United States (AFP) – US President Joe Biden’s push for green energy tax credits will help boost a massive ramp up in private investment that will create jobs and lower energy costs for American families, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday. Yellen called the administration’s plan “the most aggressive action that we’ve ever taken to address the climate crisis.” She traveled to North Carolina to tour a solar plant and tout policies included […]
Havana, Cuba | AFP | Cuba was plunged into darkness on Tuesday by a widespread blackout due to damage to its power network caused by Hurricane Ian, state electricity company Union Electrica said. The country is “without electrical service,” the company tweeted, after the powerful Category 3 storm slammed into the island nation. © Agence France-Presse
Mumbai, India (AFP) Apple will manufacture its new flagship smartphone in India, the US tech giant said Monday, as it seeks to diversify production away from a dependence on China. The iPhone supply chain is based mainly in China but the country’s zero-Covid policies and tensions with the United States have hurt production, analysts say. “We’re excited to be manufacturing iPhone 14 in India,” Apple said in a brief statement. The California-based firm already makes […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Twitter and Elon Musk sparred in court on Tuesday, each digging for evidence to prevail in a high-stakes trial next month over the billionaire’s bid to break his buyout deal. Musk has been keen to find evidence to back his accusation that Twitter misled regulators and investors about what portion of accounts are actually spam or software “bots,” as well as its key measures regarding growth. Twitter, which has […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Kremlin-installed authorities in four Ukrainian regions under Russian control claimed victory Tuesday in annexation votes, drawing global outrage, as Moscow warned it could use nuclear weapons to defend the territories. Ukraine and its allies have denounced the so-called referendums as a sham, saying the West would never recognize the results of the ballots that have dramatically ratcheted up the stakes of Russia’s seven-month invasion. Pro-Russian authorities in Zaporizhzhia said 93.11 percent […]
Overnight satellite view of Typhoon #Noru near Da Nang, Vietnam. Maximum wind speeds over 175 km/h. #TyphoonNoru #台風16号 pic.twitter.com/R0Szk4jSv9 — Zoom Earth (@zoom_earth) September 27, 2022 Danang, Vietnam (AFP) Typhoon Noru barrelled into Vietnam’s central coast early Wednesday, the national forecaster said, bringing powerful winds and heavy rain as hundreds of thousands of people took refuge in shelters. In Danang, Vietnam’s third largest city, high rise buildings shook in the strong gusts that […]
Tehran, Iran (AFP) Iran on Tuesday arrested the daughter of ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani for inciting protests, the Tasnim news agency said, amid a wave of demonstrations over the death of a young woman. “Faezeh Hashemi has been arrested in the east of Tehran by a security agency for inciting rioters to street protests,” Tasnim reported, without elaborating. Iranians on Tuesday staged a 12th straight night of protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22. […]
Danang, Vietnam | AFP | Typhoon Noru made landfall along the central coast of Vietnam early Wednesday, the national forecaster said, bringing powerful winds and heavy rain as hundreds of thousands of people took refuge in shelters. “The position of the typhoon’s centre at 4:00 am (2100 GMT Tuesday) on September 28 is between Danang and Quang Nam,” the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting said, adding wind speeds were between 103 and 117 kilometers […]
