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HOUSTON, Feb 11, 2024 (AFP) – Two people including a five-year-old boy were wounded after a woman opened fire at celebrity US pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston, Texas, one of the largest religious venues in the United States, police said Sunday. The woman was armed with a long gun when she entered the non-denominational Christian church with a child just before 2:00 pm (2000 GMT), Houston police chief Troy Finner told a […]
LOS ANGELES, Feb 9, 2024 (AFP) – A strong earthquake hit Hawaii on Friday, US seismologists said, but there was no danger of a tsunami. The 5.7-magnitude quake struck near Pahala on the main island of Hawaii, with its epicenter located around 37 kilometers (23 miles) below the Earth’s surface, the US Geological Survey said. The quake was felt all over the main island, according to a website on which people tell the USGS what […]
By Danny KEMP and Aurelia END WASHINGTON, Feb 9, 2024 (AFP) – An angry, emotional US President Joe Biden defended his mental competence Thursday in a rare evening address to Americans to respond to biting comments in a report released hours earlier on his mishandling of classified documents. Appearing on live television from the White House, Biden was furious over the report’s claim that he was unable to remember even the date of his son […]
By Danny Kemp and Sebastian Smith WASHINGTON, Feb 9, 2024 (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin said in an interview released Thursday with controversial right-wing US talk show host Tucker Carlson that the West should understand it is “impossible” to defeat Russia in Ukraine. In a two-hour interview with the former Fox News host — coming just ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — Putin also said a deal “can be reached” […]
LOS ANGELES, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – Five US service members missing after their helicopter crashed this week in southern California have been confirmed dead, the US Marine Corps said Thursday. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed Tuesday while flying from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the military said. “It is with a heavy heart and profound sadness that I share the loss of five outstanding Marines from […]
WASHINGTON, Feb 7, 2024 (AFP) – A missing military helicopter was found Wednesday in California but the search for the five service members who were aboard it is still ongoing, the US Marine Corps said. The five Marines were flying on a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in southern California when “the aircraft was reported overdue” on Tuesday, the service said in a […]
WASHINGTON, Feb 7, 2024 (AFP) – A Chinese-born US researcher has been arrested on charges of stealing trade secrets, including technology used to detect nuclear missile launches, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Chenguang Gong, 57, of San Jose, California, was arrested on Tuesday, the department said in a statement. Gong, who became a US citizen in 2011, is accused of transferring more than 3,600 files from the research and development company where he briefly worked […]
By Gerard MARTINEZ MIAMI, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – A year ago, Felix Maradiaga, who was imprisoned while running for president against Nicaragua’s increasingly authoritarian leader Daniel Ortega, was freed and exiled to the United States. The 47-year-old had been arrested along with several other opposition candidates months before the country’s November 2021 vote, while Ortega went on to claim a fourth consecutive term. Now living in Miami, Maradiaga spoke with AFP about his ordeal, […]
By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS UNITED NATIONS, United States, Feb 7, 2024 (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that the world is entering “an age of chaos” with a deeply divided Security Council unable to address critical issues such as the Israel-Hamas war. With the war in Gaza entering its fifth month on Wednesday, Guterres warned that if the Israeli armed forces press on into the southern city of Rafah, it will “exponentially increase what […]
LOS ANGELES, Feb 6, 2024 (AFP) – A powerful storm lashing California on Monday has left at least three people dead and caused devastating mudslides and flooding, after dumping months’ worth of rain in a single day. More than ten inches (25 centimeters) of rain was recorded in one part of Los Angeles County in 24 hours of downpour, with no letup forecast in the coming days. Mountainsides collapsed in the tony Hollywood Hills area, […]
LOS ANGELES, Feb 1, 2024 (AFP) – The US West Coast was getting drenched Thursday as the first of two powerful storms moved in, part of a “Pineapple Express” weather pattern that was washing out roads and sparking flood warnings. An atmospheric river was dumping heavy rain and snow over a wide swath of the region, ferrying tropical moisture from the ocean near Hawaii — a weather phenomenon named after the tropical fruit that grows […]
By Aurélia END DOVER, United States, Feb 2, 2024 (AFP) – President Joe Biden on Friday joined a solemn military ritual at a Delaware air base for the return of three US soldiers killed in Jordan by a drone attack blamed on an Iran-backed militia. Six servicemen wearing camouflage, dark berets and white gloves marched slowly three times on and off the ramp of a huge C-5 transport plane to carry the bodies in flag-draped […]
