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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s Prince Philip, who turns 95 on Friday, has been Queen Elizabeth II’s constant companion for almost 70 years, offending and amusing in equal measure with his salty off-the-cuff comments and gaffes. Known formally as the Duke of Edinburgh, the prince is a supporter of numerous charities and has been a reassuring presence at Elizabeth’s side. A self-described “cantankerous old sod”, Philip’s unvarnished humour endears him to some but often […]
SAINT-DENIS, France (AFP) — At least five people were killed and two others seriously injured in a building fire in a suburb of Paris on Monday evening, the fire service said. A further nine people had less serious injuries following the blaze in Saint-Denis, to the north of the French capital, a spokesman said. Firefighters at the scene were unable to identify the victims found in the rubble because of the severity of the blaze, […]
(Reuters) A passenger train crashed into the back of a freight train in the eastern Belgian municipality of Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse late on Sunday, killing three people and injuring 40, Belgian officials said. “A train… carrying around 40 passengers crashed into the back of a freight train on the same track,” Belgian railways SNCB said in a statement. “The collision derailed two of the six carriages.” Françis Dejon, the mayor of the Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse district told Belga news […]
by Hervé Lionnet PARIS, France (AFP) — The rain-swollen River Seine in Paris receded after reaching its highest level in three decades as attention turned Sunday to other areas of France where alert warnings have been issued. From a peak of 6.10 metres (20 feet) in the early hours of Saturday, the river began to subside, falling to 5.77 metres at 8am (0600 GMT), the environment ministry’s Vigicrues flood watch website said. However, red alerts […]
(Reuters) At least 51 people were injured by lightning strikes at the “Rock am Ring” music festival in western Germany on Friday evening, according to German police, with forecasts of thunderstorms and possibly hail to come. Organizers could not be reached for comment about any plans to shut down the festival, which is now in its 31st year and takes place at the airport in Mendig, a small town located about 150 km from Frankfurt, […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Four bodies were found floating in homes in France and Germany Wednesday in flash floods that left water lapping at the doors of one of the Loire Valley’s most famous chateaux. Heavy rains lashing parts of France, Germany and Austria cut roads, stranded people on rooftops and forced schools to close their doors, and French weather forecasters warned of more to come on Thursday. Three people who had been trapped in […]
by Olivier BAUBE Angus MACKINNON ROME, Italy (AFP) — “Bread and circuses” was the formula that ancient Rome’s rulers hoped would keep the restless natives happy. Two millennia later, residents of the Eternal City just want their buses to turn up on time, holes in the roads filled and garbage collected and dealt with safely. Virginia Raggi says that is why she put her legal career on hold in a bid to become the Italian […]
by Ella IDE ROME , Italy (AFP) — A week of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean culminated Sunday with 700 migrants feared dead and survivors giving harrowing testimony of dozens of small children drowned. Survivors brought to safety in the Italian ports of Taranto and Pozzallo told the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) and Save the Children how their boat sank on Thursday morning after a high-seas drama which saw one woman decapitated. “We’ll never know the […]
by Guy JACKSON PARIS, France (AFP) — Masked youths clashed with police in Paris and striking workers blocked refineries and disrupted nuclear power stations on Thursday as an escalating wave of industrial action against labor reforms rocked France. Police fired tear gas at around 100 protesters who broke away from a march through the capital to smash windows of shops and parked cars, an AFP reporter said, in the latest outburst of anger at the […]
HAWAII, United States (Reuters) — Aerial video taken by the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) on Wednesday (May 25) showed two new lava flows at the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. According to the observatory, the two breakouts began on Tuesday (May 24) and were still active on Wednesday. On Wednesday morning, the active portions of both flows extended 1 km (0.6 miles) from their breakout points. The video shows the […]
MEAUX, France (AFP) — Discrimination charges against Euro Disney over job adverts that called only for “European” candidates should be dropped, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The trial was triggered by a complaint from anti-racism groups nine years ago over job adverts in the commuter paper 20 Minutes in 2006, looking for “cast members” but stipulating that they had to be “of European nationality”. The prosecutors said that it had not been established that the discriminatory […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Christie’s auction house has been fined £3,250 ($4,750, 4,270 euros) for selling a piece of elephant ivory without the correct documentation, London police said Tuesday. The silver-mounted tusk, put up for auction last year, did not have the right documentation under wildlife protection laws, a police statement said. A representative for the auction house pleaded guilty in London for selling the ivory, in contravention of an article in the Convention […]
