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Dozens of evacuation orders were in place Friday as a powerful atmospheric river, known as a “Pineapple express,” surged into an already-sodden California, sparking warnings of widespread flash flooding. Up to nine inches (23 centimeters) of rain were expected in some parts of the state, with several feet of heavy, wet snow falling over mountains where a huge snowpack has built up over months of near-record storms. Forecasters said the Pineapple Express — so called […]
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — An American man convicted of a quadruple murder linked to drug trafficking more than 30 years ago was executed in Texas on Thursday. Arthur Brown Jr, 52, received a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in the city of Huntsville, in the eastern part of the vast southern US state, the state prisons board said. This made Brown the fifth death row inmate to be executed in the conservative […]
by Huw GRIFFITH Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Another big storm was headed for California on Thursday, the latest in a winter parade that has already brought near-record snowfall and heavy rains. Over the coming days, two atmospheric rivers — moisture-laden weather systems chugging in from the Pacific — were expected to dump heavy snow on already-buried mountain ranges, and bring torrential rain to lower elevations. Some areas could see as much […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invited top US lawmaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, to visit Ukraine as doubts over support for Kyiv’s war efforts simmer in Congress, particularly among conservatives. Zelensky proposed the visit in an interview with CNN, which will be broadcast later Wednesday. “Mr McCarthy, he has to come here to see how we work, what’s happening here, what war caused us, which people are fighting now, who are fighting now. And then […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States increasingly worries that China will use its power in global supply chains as an additional weapon to advance its political and military might, a report released Wednesday showed. The “Annual Threat Assessment” issued by the Director of National Intelligence said China is already using its supply chain dominance to force foreign companies and countries to transfer technologies and intellectual property to it. But the US intelligence community […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing Canada’s parliament on Tuesday during a visit to bolster support for Ukraine, said Europe would never accept Russian threats to its security. “We will never accept that a military power with fantasies of empire rolls its tanks across an international border,” she said in a speech more than one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The 27-nation bloc, she added, “will never […]
Two US citizens kidnapped by suspected Mexican drug traffickers were found dead Tuesday while two others survived, in what officials said appeared to be a tragic case of mistaken identity. Washington vowed to do everything in its power to ensure justice for the victims, who crossed the border into the crime-plagued city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state on Friday for medical reasons. Initial indications were that the abduction was the result of a “mix-up” […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The White House on Tuesday welcomed a bill that would allow the United States to ban Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement. The bill was backed by Mark Warner, a senior US senator from the Democratic party, and John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, in a rare act of political entente by US lawmakers. “We applaud the bipartisan group of senators, led […]
Washington, United States | AFP | Four American citizens were shot at and kidnapped by armed men after driving across the US border into northeastern Mexico, the FBI said Sunday. The Americans crossed into Matamoros, in Tamaulipas state, on Friday, driving a white minivan with North Carolina license plates, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement released by the US embassy in Mexico. “Shortly after crossing into Mexico, unidentified gunmen fired upon the passengers in […]
SELMA, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday stressed the importance of knowing the whole of US history, both “good” and “bad,” as he commemorated the brutal suppression 58 years ago of a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama. “History matters,” the president said during a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where a march of hundreds of peaceful activists was violently suppressed by police on March 7, 1965. “Bloody Sunday” only catalyzed […]
by Paul HANDLEY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A US jury on Thursday found lawyer Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son on their hunting estate. Scion of an elite South Carolina family of judges and attorneys, Murdaugh, 54, was described as having killed his son Paul with a shotgun and his wife Maggie with the assault rifle Paul used for hunting wild pigs on the family’s sprawling property. Following the […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A six-year-old boy was sent to hospital after being shot by his four-year-old friend in an Indigenous community in Canada’s Manitoba province, police said Thursday. The two children were at a home on Peguis First Nation, about 185 kilometers (115 miles) north of Winnipeg, Monday night “when they gained access to a firearm,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement. “The four-year-old child discharged the firearm, which struck a […]
