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WASHINGTON, Oct 26, 2023 (AFP) – Police have released the name of an “armed and dangerous” person of interest in the deadly Maine shootings that have claimed the lives of at least 22 people and left many more injured. Police in the city of Lewiston said they are trying to locate Robert Card, 40, “as a person of interest regarding the mass shooting at Schemengees Bar and Sparetime Recreation this evening,” adding that he “should […]
BOSTON, June 22, 2023 (AFP) – All five people aboard a submersible missing near the wreck of the Titanic died — likely in an instant — after their vessel suffered what the US Coast Guard said Thursday was a “catastrophic implosion” in the ocean depths. The somber announcement ended a multinational search-and-rescue operation that captivated the world since the tiny tourist craft went missing in the North Atlantic four days ago. Rear Admiral John Mauger […]
(Eagle News)–Reported deaths due to heavy rains and floods in Visayas and Mindanao over the weekend rose to 52, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said. According to the NDRRMC, of the number, 26 were reported in Northern Mindanao, nine in Bicol, five in Eastern Visayas, four each in Zamboanga and Davao, three in Caraga, and one in Mimaropa. Eighteen people, meanwhile, people were also reported missing. Of the figure, nine were reported […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United Nations warned on Tuesday the humanitarian situation in flood-ravaged Pakistan was expected to get worse, a day after establishing an air bridge to deliver aid to victims. More than 33 million people in Pakistan have been affected by the flooding, brought on by record monsoon rains amplified by climate change. The floods have caused at least 1,300 deaths and washed away homes, businesses, roads and bridges. The UN’s […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization’s Covid chief said Friday it was time for a reality check on the virus after the millionth death from the disease this year. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead Covid-19, said the toll was “heartbreaking” because the tests, treatments, vaccines and public health measures to control the disease were all available. “Given we’re in the third year of the pandemic, it’s… all the more so […]
by Christophe VOGT Agence France Presse Gang violence killed or injured at least 234 people from July 8-12 in Haiti’s Cite Soleil, an impoverished and densely populated neighbourhood of the capital Port-au-Prince, the United Nations said on Saturday. The unrest erupted between two rival factions and the city’s ill-equipped and understaffed police failed to intervene, trapping residents in their homes, unable to go out for even food and water. With many houses in the […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Video-sharing sensation TikTok is being sued in California after children died while taking part in a “Blackout Challenge” that makes a sport of choking oneself until passing out. The lawsuit filed in state court in Los Angeles last week accuses TikTok software of “intentionally and repeatedly” pushing the Blackout Challenge that led to the deaths of an eight-year-old girl in Texas and a nine-year-old girl in Wisconsin last […]
by Peter Hutchison © Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The United States is about to cross the threshold of one million deaths from Covid-19, a grim milestone that comes as cities like New York try to turn the page on the pandemic despite threats of another surge. “It’s unfathomable,” Diana Berrent, one of the first people in New York state to catch coronavirus, said of the toll that far exceeds epidemiologists’ worst […]
SANTO DOMINGO DE LOS COLORADOS, Ecuador (AFP) — At least 43 inmates died on Monday in Ecuador’s latest grisly prison riot, the public prosecutor said, as another 100 prisoners managed to escape. Authorities said a fight broke out between the rival Los Lobos and R7 gangs inside the Bellavista prison in Santo Domingo de los Colorados, in the center of Ecuador some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Quito. “For now there are 43 inmates […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Two years into the pandemic, China’s resurgent Covid-19 outbreak has revived questions about how the country counts deaths from the virus, with persistently low fatalities despite rising cases. Shanghai, China’s largest city, has logged 190 deaths among more than 520,000 infections in nearly two months — a fraction of the rate in outbreaks fuelled by the Omicron variant in other parts of the world. The figures have been trumpeted by […]
(Eagle News)–The number of reported deaths due to “Agaton” has risen to 212. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, of the fatalities, 186 were reported from Eastern Visayas, 21 from Western Visayas, three in Davao Region, and two in Central Visayas. The NDRRMC said 132 individuals have been reported missing. Of the number, 130 were reported from Eastern Visayas, and one each from Western Visayas and Davao Region. Eight were reported […]
(Eagle News) — The number of reported deaths due to “Agaton” has risen to 224. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, the new reported deaths came from Eastern Visayas. Meanwhile, 147 have been reported missing, an increase of 36 from the initial 111 earlier reported. According to the NDRRMC, 2,081,011 people or 599,956 families were affected by Agaton in Bicol, Western Visayas, Northern Mindanao, Davao, Soccsksargen, Caraga, Bangsamoro, Central Visayas, and […]
