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SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba will respect Fidel Castro’s dying wish that no statues be erected in his honor and no streets be named after him, President Raul Castro said Saturday. The national assembly will introduce legislation at its next session later this month so that “his wish is fulfilled,” Raul Castro told a massive rally for his brother on the eve of his burial in the eastern city of Santiago de […]
by Glenn Chapman with Jocelyne Zablit in Los Angeles Agence France Presse OAKLAND, United States (AFP — Up to 40 people were feared dead in a huge fire that tore through a rave party in a warehouse near San Francisco, as authorities warned Saturday of a prolonged search and recovery effort. The building lacked permits for people to live and work as a group of artists did, and for the party to take […]
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — New York police are searching for a green-clad man who swiped an 86-pound (39 kg) pail of gold flakes off an armored truck two months ago and disappeared with the estimated $1.6 million in treasure. The city’s police department late Tuesday (November 29) released photos and video of the suspect, who was lingering near the truck on the afternoon of Sept. 29 and took advantage of a moment of […]
by Hwang Sunghee SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un conducted a large-scale artillery drill simulating an attack on the South Korean capital and other targets, as Seoul and Tokyo on Friday unveiled fresh unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons program. The military exercise, involving multiple batteries of frontline heavy artillery units, targeted five border islands, as well as “reactionary ruling organs” in Seoul and other cities, the North’s official […]
CHINA (Reuters) –Eighteen people got killed early on Friday when a mini-bus carrying 20 veered off road into a lake in central China’s Hubei Province, according to local authorities. All the deceased were reportedly in their sixties and seventies. The two survivors including the mini-bus driver are receiving hospital treatment. Their injuries are not life-threatening. The driver surnamed Li is already put under police custody. Ma Yichun, a local work safety and supervision official from […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s three opposition parties said they would file an impeachment motion Friday against beleaguered President Park Geun-Hye, and push for a national assembly vote next week. Accused of colluding with a close friend who faces embezzlement charges, Park said last week she would be willing to step down in the face of weekly mass protests that have seen millions take to the streets of Seoul and other cities. The […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck southeast Peru on Thursday, damaging some homes and roads but causing no casualties, the National Civil Defense Institute (INDECI) said. The quake in the Puno region hit at 5:40 pm local time (2240 GMT), its epicenter 58 kilometers (36 miles) from the town of Lampa and at a depth of 30 kilometers, according to the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP). “Eight collapsed homes are reported in […]
by Amelie BARON PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Jovenel Moise, the provisional winner of Haiti’s presidential election with 55 percent of the vote in the first round, has claimed victory, calling on demonstrators to stand down and restore order in the capital. “The people have had their say,” he said Thursday in an interview with AFP, adding that it was now time for his rivals “to begin to realize that the country can no longer wallow […]
by Brian KNOWLTON WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Retired general James “Mad Dog” Mattis — who for years oversaw US war efforts in the Middle East and was tapped Thursday by President-elect Donald Trump as his new defense secretary — did not come by his nickname lightly. Mattis, 66, commanded a Marine battalion during the First Gulf War and a marine division during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In 2010, the tough-talking native of Washington […]
by Ivan Couronne CINCINNATI, United States (AFP) — For the first event on his post-election “thank you” tour, US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday drew a crowd of several thousand people to a Cincinnati arena — but perhaps one that lacked the fervor seen at his campaign rallies. The US Bank Arena in the Ohio city has a capacity of more than 17,000, but on Thursday night before the Republican billionaire was due to take […]
by Timothy A. Clary, with Michael Mathes in Washington INDIANAPOLIS, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump launched into a post-election victory lap Thursday by visiting a company where he claimed credit for saving American jobs, as he warned other US firms they will face consequences if relocating abroad. The president-elect, who made guaranteeing jobs for blue-collar American workers a key plank of his campaign, strode triumphantly through an Indiana factory that makes Carrier air conditioners, […]
by Béatrice LE BOHEC PARIS, France (AFP) — Francois Hollande’s presidency has been overshadowed by an unprecedented wave of jihadist attacks, violent protests over labor reforms and revelations about his messy private life. Following are some of the defining moments of his mandate which began in 2012 and which he confirmed Thursday would be his last. Three major terror attacks Since January 2015, 238 people have been killed in a series of jihadist attacks, mostly […]
