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London, United Kingdom (AFP) London’s Notting Hill Carnival was marred by the murder of a young rapper and hundreds of arrests, police said on Tuesday. The 21-year-old man died after being stabbed on Monday, the latest in a wave of knife-crime incidents in the British capital this year that have sparked growing concern. The victim was later identified as a rapper from Bristol, western England, who performed under the name TKorStretch. “He came from Bristol […]
Honiara, Solomon Islands (AFP) Solomon Islands has suspended visits from all foreign navies, citing a need to review approval processes, the country’s leader said Tuesday, after a US coast guard was unable to refuel at its port. The decision comes amid concerns over the Solomons’ growing ties with China in recent years, switching diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 2019 and signing a security pact with the Asian power in April. Western governments are […]
Copenhagen, Denmark (AFP) The World Health Organization said Tuesday it saw “encouraging” signs the monkeypox epidemic was slowing in Europe and heading “in the right direction”, calling on countries to double down on efforts. “There are encouraging early signs, as evidenced in France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and other countries, that the outbreak may be slowing”, the WHO regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told reporters. “It’s going in the right direction”, he […]
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP) The United Nations and the Pakistani government launched an emergency appeal for $160 million on Tuesday to help those hardest hit by the devastating floods in the country. The funds will provide 5.2 million people with food, water, sanitation, emergency education, protection and health support, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video statement, calling the flooding a “colossal crisis”. The aid, covering the initial six months of the crisis response, will […]
MESEBERG, Germany (AFP) – Government measures to assure supplies of gas over the winter have prepared Germany to deal with further curbs in Russian deliveries, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday, a day before Moscow is due to cut off gas supplies for three days. Germany has set about weaning itself off Russian gas since the invasion of Ukraine, bringing mothballed coal power plants back online, launching a drive to save power and filling its gas […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – The Solomon Islands has suspended all visits from the United States Navy, the US embassy in Canberra said Tuesday, heightening concerns over the growing influence of China in the region. “The United States received formal notification from the Government of Solomon Islands regarding a moratorium on all naval visits, pending updates in protocol procedures,” an embassy spokeswoman said in a statement. It comes a week after Washington said a coast guard […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities seized over P13 million worth of illegal drugs in a buy-bust operation in Negros Occidental on Sunday, Aug. 28, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, also arrested in the operation in Sitio Dapdap, Barangay Lantad, Silay City were Angie Dumdumaya, 30, and Angielyn Dumdumaya, 25. Apart from the 2010 grams of illegal drugs worth P13,668,000, the PNP said seized from the suspects were the P30, 000 in buy-bust […]
Scattered rain showers to prevail over Calabarzon, Camarines Norte due to trough of TD “Gardo” (Eagle News) — The low pressure area east of extreme Northern Luzon has developed into a tropical depression. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration’s weather update, however, no tropical cyclone wind signals are so far in effect because of Tropical Depression “Gardo” estimated 1,195 km east of that portion of Northern Luzon. “Gardo” is so far […]
PAGASA says super typhoon “Hinnamnor” to be given domestic name “Henry” once it enters PHL; Another tropical depression, “Gardo,” already inside PHL (Eagle News) – The typhoon east northeast of extreme northern Luzon has developed into a super typhoon named “Hinnamnor” with maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers per hour near the center and gusts of up to 230 km per hour. According to the country’s weather bureau PAGASA, the center of the typhoon was […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French energy firm Engie said Tuesday that Russian energy giant Gazprom was slashing its natural gas deliveries “due to a disagreement between both sides over the execution of contracts”. Engie added in a statement that Russian gas supplies had already been reduced drastically after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. “Engie had already secured the necessary volumes to guarantee supplies for its clients and for its own needs,” it said. Russia […]
by Ashraf Khan, with Zain Zaman Janjua and Emma Clark in Nowshera Agence France-Presse SUKKUR, Pakistan (AFP) — Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,100 lives. The rains that began in June have unleashed the worst flooding in more than a decade, washing away swathes of vital crops […]
by Guillaume Decamme Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Fighting between rival Iraqi forces raged for a second day Tuesday with rocket fire echoing from Baghdad’s Green Zone where 23 supporters of powerful Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr have been shot dead, medics said. Tensions have soared in Iraq amid a political crisis that has left the country without a new government, prime minister or president for months, and escalated sharply after Sadr’s supporters on Monday […]
