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DARAYA, Syria (AFP) — Ambulances and Red Crescent vehicles entered Syria’s besieged town of Daraya as thousands of rebels and civilians prepared to evacuate on Friday ahead of its takeover by government forces. It was unclear exactly when residents and fighters would start leaving the devastated town near the capital Damascus that has been under rebel control since 2012. An estimated 8,000 people remain in the town, despite a government siege lasting four years and […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The financial center of Asia is on high alert after Hong Kong confirmed its first case of Zika. According to the Hong Kong Department of Health, the patient is a 38-year old woman who experienced body pains and sore eyes last August 20. (Eagle News Service Described Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 267 Friday with 367 people hospitalized with injuries, the Civil Protection agency said. Immacolata Postiglione, head of the agency’s emergency unit, indicated there had been no survivors found overnight as rescuers sifted through rubble for a third day. The government has declared a state of emergency for the regions affected by Wednesday’s quake with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi releasing […]
CHIMAY, Belgium (Reuters) — An explosion at a sports centre in the southern Belgian town of Chimay early on Friday (August 26) killed one person and wounded four others, two of them seriously, Belgium’s Crisis Centre said. “It is probably a gas explosion,” an official at the agency told Reuters, adding that there was no indication of it being a militant attack. Local media reported the blast occurred just after midnight (2200 GMT) at a […]
QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand (Reuters) — Pavlina Pizova, a Czech traveller who was rescued by New Zealand police on Thursday (August 25) after having spent close to a month alone in a warden’s hut in the mountains of the country’s South Island after her male partner Ondrej Petr died from a fall, spoke to media on Friday (August 26) of her ordeal. “As you can imagine, the last month was very harrowing for me and my […]
PANDURO, Bolivia (Reuters) — The Bolivian government confirmed on Thursday (August 25) that Bolivian Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes was beaten to death by striking mineworkers after being kidnapped. “Everything indicates that our Vice Minister of the Interior, Rodolfo Illanes, was killed in a cowardly and brutal way. We are organizing to receive the body. We are deeply pained. We pray for the pain of the family,” said Government Minister Carlos Romero on state television. […]
by Aurelia END PARIS, France (AFP) — France’s highest administrative court will decide Friday whether to overturn the ban on wearing the full-body burkini swimsuit which has sparked controversy at home and abroad. The State Council heard arguments Thursday from the Human Rights League and an anti-Islamophobia group who are seeking to reverse a decision by the southern town of Villeneuve-Loubet to ban the Islamic swimsuit. The ruling, due at 3:00 pm (1300 GMT), is […]
ROME, Italy (Reuters) — Italy will rebuild communities devastated by this week’s earthquake and will relaunch efforts to protect the country’s buildings and infrastructure from natural disasters, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Thursday (August 25). At least 250 people died after an earthquake struck the mountainous heart of Italy in the early hours of Wednesday (August 24), devastating a string of towns, villages and hamlets. “In these hours, we have two necessities, on one […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — At least eight foreigners were among the 250 people killed when a powerful earthquake struck central Italy this week, officials said, as rescuers continued the grim search for corpses Friday. The bulk of the confirmed deaths — 193 at the latest count — were in the small mountain town of Amatrice, which normally has a population of around 2,500 but was packed with visitors when the quake struck as people […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Eleven children were killed on Thursday in a barrel bomb attack carried out by government forces on a rebel-held neighborhood of Syria’s Aleppo city, a monitor said. “Fifteen civilians, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nayrab neighborhood” in the south of Aleppo city, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The group also reported eight civilians, including two children, were killed […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The tone of the US presidential campaign turned darker on Thursday, with Hillary Clinton skewering Donald Trump as a man who flirts with racism and paranoid ideas, while he in turn labeled her a racist whose family foundation was a “criminal enterprise.” Speaking at a campaign event in Reno, Nevada, Clinton employed unusually tough language as she detailed a history of what she said were the Republican real estate mogul’s […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP) -Shabaab jihadists attacked a beachfront restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, setting off a car bomb before exchanging fire with security forces, an AFP correspondent said. Sporadic shots could still be heard coming from the scene several hours after the attack began, the correspondent said, with at least one of the gunmen still thought to be holed up inside the restaurant. It was not immediately clear if there were any […]
