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by Sebastian Smith Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazill (AFP) — The Brazilian army said Thursday it is sending elite troops and military aviation to a state where more than 100 people are reported to have been killed since police went on strike. More reinforcements were being deployed to the southeastern state of Espirito Santo, where 1,200 soldiers arrived earlier this week after chaos broke out when police went on strike demanding better pay. […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday Iran’s military power was “purely defensive”, after tensions with the United States over its missile program and a nuclear deal soared following Donald Trump’s inauguration. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has showed that it doesn’t intend to interfere with the internal affairs of other countries,” Rouhani told foreign diplomats in Tehran, according to the ISNA news agency. “Our military power is purely defensive,” he was quoted […]
by Frankie Taggart with Andrew Beatty in Washington Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A US court on Thursday slapped down Donald Trump’s effort to bar refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from US soil, dealing the new president and his controversial law-and-order agenda a major defeat. The ruling from the federal appeals court in San Francisco on Trump’s executive order, issued on January 27 with no prior warning and suspended […]
by Stuart WILLIAMS Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Three Turkish soldiers were “accidentally” killed and 11 wounded on Thursday when a Russian air strike targeting jihadists in Syria hit a building where the troops were deployed, the Turkish army said. With Moscow and Ankara cooperating ever more closely on Syria, President Vladimir Putin quickly reached out to Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to express condolences and promise better future coordination. The Russian plane […]
by Chloé COUPEAU Agence France Presse CAEN, France (AFP) — An explosion at a nuclear power plant on France’s northwest coast on Thursday caused minor injuries, but the authorities said there was no risk of radiation. The blast occurred in the engine room at the Flamanville plant, which lies 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of the port of Cherbourg and just across from the Channel Islands. “It is a technical incident. It is not a […]
DIGITAL NEST | “Best of the New York Times Travel Show” As an avid traveler and geography enthusiast, the New York Times Travel Show held at the Jacob Javits Center last January 27-29 in Midtown Manhattan inspired me to work diligently so I would be able to see visit every country while I can. Here are six of my favorite booths from the exhibition in which I long to travel to in the future: SOUTH […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — Hundreds of South Korean artists sued President Park Geun-hye and former aides on Thursday (February 9) for trying to silence them with a blacklist of writers, actors and others critical of the scandal-plagued administration. Park’s former presidential chief of staff and her culture minister have been charged with abuse of power for their role in drafting the blacklist in a corruption scandal that has gripped the country and led to […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping on the heels of his remarks about Taiwan that angered Beijing. In his missive, which thanked Xi for his “congratulatory letter” about Trump’s inauguration, said he “looks forward to working with President Xi to develop a constructive relationship that benefits both the United States and China,” spokesman Sean Spicer said in a statement. The note appeared to be […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) –The US Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions as attorney general Wednesday, despite fierce debate about his civil rights record and Democratic concern over whether he serves as the nation’s top law enforcement officer independent from President Donald Trump. Lawmakers greenlighted the senator as the 84th US attorney general on a mostly party line vote of 52 to 47, with one Democrat, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, voting with the Republican majority. When […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US military said Wednesday that it had killed eleven Al-Qaeda operatives, including a veteran leader and suicide bombing pioneer, in a bombing raid in Syria. The Pentagon said Abu Hani al-Masri, the Qaeda veteran, was one of those killed in the precision airstrikes near Idlib carried out on February 3-4. Al-Masri was an early official in al-Qaeda, overseeing the group’s training camps in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s […]
by Martin PARRY Agence France-Presse SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Beijing has played down the prospects of conflict with the United States over the South China Sea in the wake of aggressive rhetoric by Donald Trump’s administration, saying both sides would lose. China asserts sovereignty over almost all of the resource-rich region despite rival claims from Southeast Asian neighbours and has rapidly built reefs into artificial islands capable of hosting military planes. The islands are considered […]
Reuters (Reuters) — Amateur video shot on Monday (February 6) shows a fire tornado forming during a bushfire near Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia. Danny Robinson, who works at Giralia Station recorded the fire and smoke tornado which was about six kilometers away from his location. Robinson told Reuters in an email that the bushfire started around 16:00 p.m. (0800 GMT) last Sunday (February 5). “The upward forces of the fire tornado managed to rip […]
