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by Katell Prigent / Marie Giffard Agence France Presse TRAPPES, France (AFP) — A man stabbed his mother and sister to death and seriously injured another person in a town near Paris on Thursday before being shot dead by police. The 36-year-old had serious mental health problems and had been on a terror watch list since 2016, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told reporters after visiting the scene in the town of Trappes. The motive for […]
by Joe Jackson Agence France Presse Accusations of wide-ranging abuse in Catholic institutions in Ireland, including but not limited to the sexual targeting of children by priests, date back several decades. In a sign of the scale of the issue, 14,500 people applied for compensation through an Irish government scheme for those abused at juvenile facilities run by religious groups between 1936 and 1970. As Pope Francis prepares to meet some victims during his weekend […]
A support organization for Catholic Church’s sex abuse victims in Ireland said that as many as one in four adults in the country had experienced some sort of sexual abuse, as a campaign called “Say Nope to the Pope” is planned to hold a protest event as Catholic Pope Francis visits Ireland on Saturday. Executive Director Maeve Lewis of the “One in Four” abuse survivors’ support group said that the upcoming papal visit in Ireland […]
ROME, Italy (AFP)–Eleven hikers, up from eight, are now reported to have died in flash floods in Italy’s southern Calabria region, with five people still missing, rescue services said Tuesday. Several hiking groups were caught Monday afternoon by the flooding in the Raganello river gorge in southern Cozenza province, with local authorities saying that 23 people had been rescued. They said the incident involved two groups of 18 hikers each, with powerful floodlights brought up […]
ROME, Italy (AFP)–Eight hikers died when a mountain river suddenly flooded in Italy’s southern Calabria region, with five people still missing, local emergency services said on Monday. “We have eight dead but we can’t rule out the toll increasing,” the local civil protection unit told AFP. A statement Monday evening from the prefecture of Cosenza, capital of the province where the flooding hit, said 23 people were saved and five were still missing, as well […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – A fire in a residential building near Paris on Sunday left seven people with serious injuries including five children who were in a “life-threatening” condition, firefighters said. Some 16 people including 10 police officers and a firefighter were also slightly hurt in the blaze in Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris, which was later brought under control, the fire service said. In the same town less than a month ago, a fire in a […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — A man armed with a knife was killed when he attacked a police station near the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona early Monday, police said. “A man armed with a knife entered the police station in Cornella to attack the officers. The attacker was shot,” the Catalonia regional police said on Twitter. A police spokesman refused to comment on local media reports that the man was from Algeria and had shouted “Allahu […]
by Remi Banet with Terry Daley in Rome © Agence France-Presse GENOA, Italy (AFP) — Italy is searching for answers on Sunday after paying its respects to the dozens killed by a collapsed bridge in Genoa, as the country’s new government continues to battle the underfire motorway company that manages. The death toll from the disaster rose to 43 on Sunday after firefighters discovered three bodies, reported to be those of a couple and their […]
by Nina Larson with Carole Landry in New York Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — From his native Africa to the United States, tributes continued to pour in from around the world Sunday after UN chief, Nobel peace laureate, and “diplomatic rock star” Kofi Annan died at the age of 80. The Ghanaian national was a career diplomat who projected quiet charisma and was widely credited for raising the world body’s profile in global […]
by Remi BANET with Fanny CARRIER in Rome Agence France Presse GENOA, Italy (AFP) — A state funeral service was underway Saturday in Italy to commemorate dozens of people killed in Genoa’s bridge disaster, as some outraged relatives shunned official ceremonies and rescuers pulled more bodies from the wreckage. The service, which coincides with a national day of mourning, came as firefighters still searching for five missing people discovered a car with human remains […]
by Remi BANET Agence France-Presse GENOA, Italy (AFP) — Grieving relatives wept over coffins of dozens of victims of Genoa’s bridge collapse Friday as controversy clouded a planned state funeral, while rescuers pressed on with their formidable search for those missing in the rubble. Fury is growing over the shock collapse of the Morandi bridge, a decades-old viaduct that crumbled in a storm on Tuesday killing at least 38 people, with Italian media reporting that […]
by Remi Banet Agence France-Presse Gênes, Italy (AFP) – Rescuers used diggers to claw through mountains of rubble, calling out in the hope of finding survivors as a desperate search for victims of the viaduct collapse entered its fourth day Friday with up to 20 people still missing. Italy’s government has intensified its attacks on the operator of the decades-old Morandi bridge, which buckled without warning on Tuesday, sending cars, trucks and huge chunks of concrete […]
