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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Japan’s central bank on Wednesday conducted an operation often seen as a precursor to currency intervention, local media said, as the yen continues to crater against a strengthening dollar. The financial daily Nikkei and other local media said the Bank of Japan (BoJ) carried out a “rate check”. A Bank spokesman contacted by AFP declined to comment. A rate check involves asking market participants about their foreign exchange trading, said Toshikazu […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, the Japanese government said Wednesday, in their first overseas trip since assuming the throne in 2019. Top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that the royal couple would be present but Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other government officials would not attend. Queen Elizabeth met three generations of Japanese royals and had invited Emperor Naruhito and his wife to […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – Around 200 health organizations and more than 1,400 health professionals on Wednesday called for governments to establish a binding international treaty on phasing out fossil fuels, which they said pose “a grave and escalating threat to human health”. A letter proposing the “fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty” said it could work similarly to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control — except this time the harmful controlled substances would be […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines will lift a ban on deploying domestic workers to Saudi Arabia and resume it in November after Riyadh agreed to boost protective measures for Filipino migrants, officials said. Manila had halted the sending of household workers last November to Saudi Arabia — a popular destination for Filipinos working abroad — after reports emerged of abuse and unpaid wages. Deployment will resume on November 7, a decision that […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) – South Africa’s medicines regulatory authority says it has recorded two fatal cases of the rare Guillain-Barre syndrome in people who had received a Johnson & Johnson Covid jab. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) reported its first case in August and the second on Monday. “SAHPRA has been informed of a second fatal case of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) following vaccination with the Covid-19 vaccine Janssen,” it said in […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – Uber paid the US state of New Jersey $100 million in back taxes and fines for labeling nearly 300,000 of its drivers as self-employed and withholding required benefits, officials said Tuesday. The ride-sharing giant, however, insisted that its drivers were indeed independent contractors and said it only paid a fraction of the $1 billion initially demanded by the northeastern state. The payment stems from a government audit of Uber’s […]
(Eagle News) — The tropical cyclone outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility has intensified into a tropical storm. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, “Nanmadol” may enter PAR on Thursday evening or Friday morning. Once inside, it will be named “Josie.” PAGASA said so far, the tropical storm is forecast to remain far from the Philippine landmass and not directly affect the weather condition in the country. However, it may enhance […]
AMMAN, Jordan (AFP) — The bodies of five people were recovered after a four-storey residential building collapsed in Jordan’s capital Tuesday, authorities said, adding that 14 more were injured and others remained trapped. The toll from the collapse in the city’s Jabal al-Weibdeh district “has risen to five dead and 14 injured”, security spokesman Amer al-Sartawy said in a statement. He had earlier told state television that civil defense forces were being supported by teams […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Tuesday for solidarity and cooperation to address a “world in peril” at the opening of the 77th United Nations General Assembly. “We face a world in peril across our work to advance peace, human rights and sustainable development,” Guterres said, citing conflicts and climate change, a “broken global financial system,” poverty, inequality, hunger and divisions. “Addressing common challenges will require continued solidarity as […]
by Issam AHMED Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A second US death was linked to monkeypox on Tuesday as health authorities published a study describing how two previously healthy young men experienced inflammation of the brain and spinal cord as a result of the virus. There have been nearly 22,000 US cases in the current global outbreak, which began in May, but new infections have been falling since mid-August as authorities have […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The NBA has suspended Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver for one year and fined him $10 million dollars after a probe of claims of racism and misogyny, the league said Tuesday. In announcing the punishment, the league said the independent investigation found that Sarver “engaged in conduct that clearly violated common workplace standards, as reflected in team and League rules and policies. “This conduct included the use of racially […]
by Mariam HARUTYUNYAN with Emil GULIYEV in Baku Agence France-Presse YEREVAN, Armenia (AFP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan reported nearly 100 troop deaths Tuesday in their worst fighting since a 2020 war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The last wave of fighting over Azerbaijan’s tense Armenian-populated enclave ended in a fragile truce brokered by Russia. But on Tuesday, the defense ministry in Baku said “50 Azerbaijani servicemen died as a result of Armenia’s large-scale provocation,” while […]
