Category: International News

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348 total views, 172 views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Tunis, Tunisia, Sep 15 – Chadlia Caid Essebsi, the wife of the late Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi, passed away on Sunday as the first round of elections to select her husband’s successor began, their son announced. “My mother Chadlia, widow of Beji Caid Essebsi, is dead, may God bless her,” Hafedh Caid Essebsi said on Facebook. In late July, the 83-year-old had welcomed heads of state who came to pay their respects to her husband, Tunisia’s first president elected democratically by universal suffrage who…

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555 total views, 170 views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, WASHINGTON, United States, Sept 14 – US President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, the son and designated heir of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, was killed in a counter-terrorism operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. US media reported in late July and early August, citing intelligence officials, that the younger Bin Laden had been killed sometime in the last two years in an operation that involved the United States. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper confirmed the death last month, saying it…

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1,820 total views, 36 views today BY BBC NEWS,9TH SEPT,2019-Russia’s ruling United Russia party has suffered major losses in Sunday’s election to the Moscow city parliament, nearly complete results show. The party lost nearly a third of the seats in the 45-member parliament, but remains on course to retain its majority with about 26 seats. With most opposition candidates disqualified, the Communists, independents and others gained seats. The exclusion of the opposition candidates triggered mass protests. Thousands of people have been detained, and riot police have been accused of a brutal crackdown…

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2,449 total views, 3 views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, LONDON, United Kingdom, Sep 5 – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dealt a fresh blow on Thursday when his brother Jo quit the government, saying he could no longer reconcile “family loyalty and national interest”. Jo Johnson had campaigned strongly against Britain’s exit from the European Union in 2016, a position that put him at odds with his older and more famous brother Boris. But he took a job in his brother’s government as universities and science minister, a position he had held previously. “It’s been an…

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1,260 total views, no views today BY AFP,Nassau,5TH SEPT 2019-Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis on Wednesday lamented the “generational devastation” wrought by Hurricane Dorian, as he confirmed the storm’s death toll had risen to at least 20. The US Coast Guard and Britain’s Royal Navy airlifted survivors and ferried in emergency supplies as flood waters receded in the Bahamas, while the weakened but still dangerous storm was “lashing” the coasts of the American states of Georgia and South Carolina. The United Nations said 70,000 people on Grand Bahama and Abaco islands…

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1,189 total views, no views today BY AFP,Washington,1ST SEPT 2019-A gunman hijacked a US postal truck and opened fire at random in the US state of Texas Saturday, shooting dead at least five people and wounding many others before dying in a shootout with officers. Police identified the suspect as a white man in his mid-30s, but could not yet name him or say why he carried out the attack in the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa. GUN CONTROL Coming less than a month after a gunman killed 22…

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1,658 total views, 1 views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Tokyo, Japan, Aug 28 – Two people were confirmed dead on Wednesday as heavy rains pounded southwest Japan, prompting flood and landslide warnings and orders for 870,000 people to seek safety. More than a million more people were advised to leave their homes after the country’s weather agency raised the alert to its highest level for parts of northern Kyushu. The emergency warning is issued “if there is a significant likelihood of catastrophes”. Officials confirmed two deaths, one in western Saga prefecture where a man…

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2,078 total views, 1 views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Biarritz, France, Aug 25 –US President Donald Trump on Sunday backed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the “right man” for Brexit and sent mixed signals about his trade war with China at a G7 summit dominated by worries about the global economy. Johnson and Trump were on obviously friendly terms as they sat down for a working breakfast in the southern French resort of Biarritz where Group of Seven leaders are gathering this weekend. “He’s going to be a fantastic prime minister,” Trump…

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3,367 total views, no views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Hong Kong, China, Aug 16 –Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement faces a major test this weekend as it tries to muster another huge crowd following criticism over a recent violent airport protest and as concerns mount over Beijing’s next move. Ten weeks of protests have plunged the international finance hub into crisis with the communist mainland taking an increasingly hardline tone, including labelling the more violent protester actions “terrorist-like”. Chinese state media have put out images of military personnel and armoured personnel carriers across…

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1,496 total views, no views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, El Paso, United States, Aug 3 – Two mass shootings in the United States have left 29 people dead within 24 hours, the latest such attacks in a nation torn over how to tackle gun violence. A gunman armed with an assault rifle killed 20 people Saturday when he opened fire on shoppers at a packed Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. Less than 13 hours later, a lone shooter killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio early Sunday before being shot dead…

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1,418 total views, no views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Aden, Yemen, Aug 1 – Separate attacks by Shiite rebels and a jihadist suicide bomber killed at least 49 people in Yemen’s government-held second city Aden Thursday, many of them newly trained police cadets. The attacks were the first to hit the southern port city in more than a year and dealt a heavy blow to the government’s reorganised security forces, which have been trained and equipped by the United Arab Emirates. Mohammed Rabid, a senior official at the health ministry, told reporters in…

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1,309 total views, no views today BY AFP,Washington, 1ST AUG 2019-US intelligence has received information that Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza has died, NBC News reported Wednesday. NBC said three US officials had confirmed they had information of Hamza bin Laden’s death, but gave no details of the date or place, and did not indicate if they had confirmed the information. Questioned by reporters in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump did not confirm or deny the report. “I don’t want to comment on it,” he said. BOUNTY In…

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1,804 total views, 1 views today BY REUTERS ,29TH JULY,2019-At least 65 people died in an attack by suspected Islamists on a group returning from a funeral in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno region, state television reported on Sunday, one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in recent years. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the Boko Haram group and rival Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) splinter group have often carried out attacks in the area. Local government chairman Mohammed Bulama was quoted as saying on state television that the assailants…

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1,581 total views, 1 views today BY REUTERS,27TH JULY 2019- The upper deck of a nightclub collapsed on top of revelers in South Korea on Saturday, killing two people and injuring several foreign athletes competing at the World Aquatics Championships, rescue officials and witnesses said. The floor gave way in the Coyote Ugly nightclub in the city of Gwangju at about 2:30 a.m. (1730 GMT Friday), pinning people underneath and injuring at least 10, rescue officials said. The two people killed were South Korean. New Zealand men’s water polo team captain Matt Small…

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1,990 total views, no views today BY AFP,25TH JULY,2019-Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader, died Thursday at the age of 92, his office said. The veteran politician, the oldest head of state after Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, came to power in 2014, three years after the Arab Spring uprising toppled longtime despot Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and sparked revolts in several Arab nations. He had been hospitalised with a severe illness in late June and was returned to intensive care on Thursday. Loading…

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1,308 total views, no views today BY BBC NEWS,25TH JULY 2019-North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into the sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. They were launched over the sea early on Thursday, from Wonsan on North Korea’s east coast. A JCS official said at least one of the missiles travelled about 690km (428 miles) and appeared to be a new design. It marks the first time North Korea has fired any missiles since leader Kim Jong-un’s impromptu meeting with Donald Trump late last month. It also…

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2,256 total views, no views today BY BBC NEWS, 23RD JULY,2019-The BBC’s chief political correspondent Vicki Young has said that a “long standing ally of Boris Johnson,” and someone who supported his bid to get into Number 10, has told her that he is worried as to “how long Mr Johnson’s leadership can last.” “There is really no majority for the Conservative party,” she says, adding that “they have this incredibly divisive Brexit issue to deal with”. Loading…

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2,881 total views, 2 views today BY BBC NEWS,18TH JULY 2019-Three Islamic State group supporters who murdered two Scandinavian hikers in Morocco have been sentenced to death. The verdicts for ringleader Abdessamad Ejjoud, Younes Ouaziyad and Rachid Afatti follow petitions on social media calling for their execution. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, were found beheaded in the High Atlas mountains in December. If the executions go ahead, they will be the first in Morocco since 1993. That year saw the country introduce a freeze on…

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1,458 total views, no views today BY AFP,18TH JULY 2019-The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a “public health emergency of international concern,” a rare designation only used for the gravest epidemics. “It is time for the world to take notice,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement, as he accepted the advice of his advisory board to invoke the emergency provision (PHEIC), only used by the UN health agency four times previously. Those included the H1N1, or swine flu,…

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1,742 total views, no views today  BY AFP,PUNJAB,PAKISTAN,11TH JULY 2019-20 people were killed and nearly 80 injured when two trains collided in central Pakistan early Thursday, officials said. The incident took place in Rahim Yar Khan district in Punjab province when a passenger train coming from the eastern city of Lahore rammed into a goods train that had stopped at a crossing, a senior government official said. A senior Pakistan Railways official gave AFP the toll, adding: “We fear the death toll will rise as rescue teams are still cutting (through) the wreckage.”…

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