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By Maria DANILOVA WASHINGTON, Oct 7, 2023 (AFP) – The United States on Saturday condemned the attacks by “Hamas terrorists” against Israel and vowed to ensure the key US ally has the means to defend itself. President Joe Biden described the assault as “a terrible tragedy on a human level” and said he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to underline his support. “I told him the United States stands with the people […]
MEXICO CITY, Oct 7, 2023 (AFP) – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Friday night, causing some damage and power outages, officials said. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the National Seismological Service said the epicenter of the quake was in the town of Matias Romero. Senior regional government official Jesus Romero told journalists no deaths had been reported but the tremor caused damage to stretches of a […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 6, 2023 (AFP) – Adventurer Namira Salim became the first Pakistani to travel into space on Friday, riding aboard Virgin Galactic’s fifth successful flight in five months, the US company announced. Salim, who previously traveled to both poles and has also parachuted over Mount Everest, was among the first customers to buy a ticket with billionaire Richard Branson’s space company after it was founded almost two decades ago. “I love my title ‘first […]
LOS ANGELES, Oct 6, 2023 (AFP) – A US man who groped a sleeping passenger on a plane was jailed Thursday for nearly two years. Mohammad Jawad Ansari, 50, put his hand on the inner thigh of a woman as she slept in the middle seat of a flight from Cleveland to Los Angeles in February 2020. The victim, who was wearing a dress, woke up and pushed Ansari’s hand away before leaving her seat […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 6, 2023 (AFP) – Former president Donald Trump shared classified information about US nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman shortly after he left office, in a meeting at his Florida private members club Mar-a-Lago, US media said Thursday. The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, identified the businessman as billionaire Anthony Pratt, who heads one of the world’s largest packaging companies. ABC News, which first revealed the story, said Pratt later shared sensitive […]
NEW YORK, Oct 5, 2023 (AFP) – Six artworks stolen by the Nazis and returned recently to the heirs of the Austrian Jew who owned them will be auctioned in New York next month, Christie’s said Thursday. New York authorities announced on September 20 that leading institutions that include New York’s Museum of Modern Art had agreed to return seven works by the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele to the family of Fritz Grunbaum, a […]
By Mathiew LEISER MONTREAL, Oct 5, 2023 (AFP) – Eastern Canada shattered heat records this week with temperatures close to 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), worrying experts and everyday people struggling to cope with extreme weather made worse by climate change. “It’s unheard of for a day in October,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Jean-Philippe Begin. “It’s normal to have occasional warm spells, but extreme heat like this is very unusual.” The last three days heat […]
By Andrea Bambino with Chris Lefkow in Washington NEW YORK, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – New York Attorney General Letitia James hit back at Donald Trump on Wednesday over his virulent attacks on the $250 million civil fraud suit she brought against him, saying she will “not be bullied.” “The Donald Trump show is over,” James told reporters after the 77-year-old former president left court at the midpoint of Wednesday’s proceedings. Before leaving, Trump railed […]
By Huw GRIFFITH LOS ANGELES, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – Tens of thousands of health care workers in the United States walked off the job Wednesday, beginning one of the sector’s largest strikes in recent history, as America’s year of labor discontent rolled on. The walkout of more than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente, the country’s largest non-profit health care organization, comes as surging inflation has spurred industrial action across the US, from Hollywood actors […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – At least five people were injured in a shooting on a university campus in the eastern US city of Baltimore late Tuesday, police said. The shooting took place on the campus of the historically Black university Morgan State around 9:25 pm (0125 GMT on Wednesday), Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters. Five people between the ages of 18 and 22 had been injured in the incident, but none […]
