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by Miguel SANCHEZ Agence France Presse SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Vast woodland fires in the center and south of Chile have caused “the biggest forestry disaster in our history,” President Michelle Bachelet said Monday, canceling a trip abroad to supervise the emergency. A total of 130 square kilometers (500 square miles) have been charred, mainly in sparsely populated rural areas, according to the National Emergency Office. Although most of 150 fires that broke out this […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump moved Monday to pull the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, making good on a pledge to scrap a deal he denounced as a “job killer” and a “rape” of US interests. Embarking on his first full week in office, the 45th US president began rolling out his policy agenda after a tumultuous first weekend for his administration by signing a […]
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES (AFP) — US President Donald Trump pledged Sunday to begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement in upcoming talks with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. “We’re meeting with the prime minister of Canada and we will be meeting with the president of Mexico, who I know, and we’re going to start some negotiations having to do with NAFTA,” Trump said while addressing White House staff on his second full […]
SHANGRAO CITY, China (Reuters) — Chinese courts have jailed two former officials for corruption who had fled abroad to try and avoid justice, the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said on Monday. China has vowed to pursue an overseas search dubbed Operation “Fox Hunt” for corrupt officials and business executives, and their assets, part of President Xi Jinping’s war on deep-seated corruption. In a short statement, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection named the two […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) — Mexicans once again protested over gasoline price hikes Sunday (January 22) in the so-called “gasolinazo.” The march in Mexico City was joined by other rallies in at least 12 states. Thousands participated, according to Mexican media reports. Since January 1, when the government hiked gasoline prices by 14 to 20 percent, protests have broken out throughout the country. Thousands held posters against the increase in prices and chanted for Pena […]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) — At least one person was killed and seven others wounded during a botched robbery at a jewelry store at a San Antonio mall, police said on Sunday (January 22). The shooting unfolded as two people who staged an armed robbery at a Kay Jewelers outlet at the Rolling Oaks Mall were fleeing, said Police Chief William McManus. Two bystanders tried to intervene. One was shot and killed by one of […]
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (Reuters) — A policeman was wounded in a shooting at a petrol station in north Belfast on Sunday evening (January 22), the police service said. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said the wounded policemen underwent surgery following the attack. “At 7:30 tonight some of our community police officers were doing their duty in north Belfast, and as they were coming out of a petrol station in Crumlin Road there was an attempt […]
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) — Clashes in Yemen killed at least 66 people in 24 hours, medics and security sources said Sunday, as pro-government forces pushed to oust rebels from a key stretch of coastline. Air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition and fighting near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait killed at least 52 fighters among Shiite Huthi rebels and allied troops loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the sources said. Fourteen members of the pro-government forces were […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — The death toll from a bomb blast at a market in a mainly Shiite area of Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt has risen to 24, officials said Sunday. The explosion, which occurred on Saturday in Parachinar, capital of the Kurram tribal district, initially killed 20 people and was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban. It was the first major militant attack in the country in 2017. “The number of dead people from the blast […]
SCOTTSVILLE, TEXAS United States (Reuters) — Residents in Scottsville, Texas were recovering on Sunday (January 22) from severe storms and high winds that damaged dozens of properties, downed trees and toppled power lines. The national weather service was determining whether the storms met classifications for tornado status. Scottsville resident Earnest Marshall described the strong winds sweeping through his home. “The house shifted three times… I covered my head” adding his house was “tore up” after […]
(Reuters) — At least 32 people were killed and dozens more injured on Saturday (January 21) night when nine coaches of a passenger train derailed in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, in the latest disaster to hit the vast and accident-prone state railways, officials said. The express train from Jagdalpur to Bhubaneswar derailed near Kuneri station, around 30 km (18 miles) outside the town of Raigarh. District collector of Raigarh district in India’s […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea Sunday, but a tsunami alert intially issued for the Pacific island nation and its neighbours was later cancelled. The tremor struck 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Panguna on Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville island at a depth of 153 kilometres at 3:30 pm local time (0430 GMT), the US Geological Survey said. Its preliminary assessment added that light to moderate damage […]
