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SEOUL, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – North Korea’s top diplomat said her country is “ready to greet” Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media reported Sunday, in the latest sign of deepening ties between the two authoritarian states. Traditional allies Russia and North Korea have recently boosted ties, with Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un making a rare overseas trip to meet Putin in Russia’s Far East last September. The West has accused Moscow and Pyongyang of […]
Building bridges through education and media Manila, Philippines – January 15, 2024 – The New Era University (NEU) has taken a major step towards internationalization by signing a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Russian news agency Sputnik. This agreement marks a new chapter in the university’s journey towards its Golden Jubilee. On January 12, the MoU was virtually signed at the SPUTNIK Media Room in Moscow, Russia, and the NEU Boardroom in Quezon […]
By Deborah COLE BERLIN, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – Severe winter weather in northern Europe prompted the cancellation of hundreds of flights Wednesday at Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest, while heavy snow in Scandinavia shut down air travel in Oslo for several hours. A Frankfurt airport spokeswoman said 570 of 1,047 flights had been axed by late morning as Germany’s business capital prepared for dramatic weather conditions. By early afternoon, all remaining departures were temporarily struck […]
MUNICH, Germany, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – Hollywood action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger was held at Munich airport on Wednesday for failing to declare an expensive watch, a customs spokesman told AFP. The Austrian-born actor and former governor of California, 76, was detained in the customs area on Wednesday afternoon after arriving from the United States, spokesman Thomas Meister said. Schwarzenegger was expected to be able to continue his journey later in the day but “the […]
By Peter HUTCHISON LONDON, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak survived a key test of his leadership Wednesday, fending off right-wing rebels to win a crunch parliamentary vote on his contentious plan to send migrants to Rwanda. Sunak, in power since October 2022, has staked his political future on the scheme, as Britain gears up for its next general election later this year. Right-wing Conservatives had threatened to kill the […]
BERLIN, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – Severe winter weather prompted the cancellation of hundreds of flights Wednesday at Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest, as the country faced heavy snowfall and freezing rain. A Frankfurt airport spokeswoman said 570 of 1,047 flights had been axed from the schedule by late morning as Germany’s business capital prepared for dramatic weather conditions. By early afternoon, all remaining departures were struck from the schedule due to the onset of freezing […]
LONDON, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – The Princess of Wales is facing up to two weeks in hospital and several months’ recuperation after undergoing successful abdominal surgery, Kensington Palace announced on Wednesday. The 42-year-old wife of William, Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne, was admitted to a private clinic in central London on Tuesday, a statement said. “The surgery was successful and it is expected that she will remain in hospital for ten […]
MOSCOW, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – Protesters and riot police were injured Wednesday when clashes erupted in a small town in Russia’s central Bashkortostan after an activist was sentenced to four years in prison. Street protests are a rarity in Russia, which has clamped down on dissent since launching its military offensive in Ukraine and has strict anti-demonstration laws. Crowds of men in the town of Baymak fought with riot police in temperatures hovering around […]
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – The World Trade Organization’s chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday said she was “less optimistic” about world trade in 2024, pointing to tensions in the Red Sea. The head of the international trade body said weaker global economic growth, “worsening geopolitical tensions, the new disruptions we see in the Red Sea, on the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal” meant “we are less optimistic”. She was speaking to journalists at […]
REYKJAVIK, Jan 15, 2024 (AFP) – Volcanic activity in southwest Iceland appears to have eased, authorities said Monday, a day after lava from an eruption flowed into the fishing town of Grindavik, engulfing several homes. A volcanic eruption began early Sunday near Grindavik, southwest of the capital Reykjavik, and two fissures opened up. Iceland is home to 33 active volcano systems, the highest number in Europe. “The night has been uneventful,” Hjordis Gudmundsdottir of […]
By Mahdia BENHAMLA SAINT-DENIS DE LA REUNION, Jan 15, 2024 (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of people on France’s Indian Ocean island of Reunion hunkered down in their homes under a strict lockdown on Monday as a devastating storm that has already left one dead started to rip along its north. Cyclone Belal hit Reunion, one of France’s overseas territories that span the globe from the Caribbean to the Pacific, moving in from the northwest […]
SAINT-DENIS DE LA REUNION, Jan 15, 2024 (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of people on France’s Reunion Island were confined to their homes Monday, as authorities issued the highest alert for a potentially devastating storm. Cyclone Belal was expected to barrel directly into the French Indian Ocean island on Monday, as it moved in from the northwest packing “extreme winds”, according to the Meteo-France forecast. “The eye of the storm will directly cross over the […]
