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AMATRICE, Italy (AFP) – by Ella IDE with Angus MACKINNON in Rome The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 250 on Thursday as rescuers continued a grim search for corpses and powerful aftershocks rocked the devastated area. The bulk of the confirmed deaths — 193 at the latest count — were in the small town of Amatrice, where Rita Rosine, 63, wept as she mourned her 75-year-old sister, who was buried […]
QAYYARAH, Iraq (AFP) – by Abdelhamid Zebari Iraqi forces on Thursday pushed the Islamic State group from Qayyarah, a northern town considered strategic for any future offensive against the jihadists’ last stronghold of Mosul. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi hailed the victory as a key step in the fight against IS but hours later suffered yet another political setback when lawmakers impeached his defence minister. Special forces, backed by US-led coalition air strikes, wrapped up a three-day […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United Nations called Thursday for the creation of an independent international body to investigate an array of alleged serious violations in war-torn Yemen. Yemenis are suffering “unbearably (and) absent any form of accountability and justice, while those responsible for the violations and abuses against them enjoy impunity,” UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said in a statement. He insisted that “such a manifestly protracted unjust situation must no longer […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Gaston became the third hurricane of the Atlantic season Thursday when it was upgraded from a tropical storm, the US-based National Hurricane Center said. Swirling in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean some 1,215 miles (1,955 kilometers) west of Cape Verde, Gaston appeared to pose no immediate threat to land. Data collected by the agency’s hurricane-tracking mission indicated maximum sustained winds at 75 miles per hour, with higher gusts, as […]
by Bulent KILIC KARKAMIS, Turkey (AFP) — At least 10 more Turkish tanks on Thursday crossed the border into Syria a day after pro-Ankara Syrian opposition fighters ousted jihadists from the town of Jarabulus, an AFP photographer said. The tanks were set to join around a dozen others which had crossed the frontier on Monday in Operation Euphrates Shield, which Turkey says aims at ridding the border area of Islamic State (IS) extremists and also Kurdish […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) — At least 12 people, including seven students, were killed in an attack on the American University in Kabul that sent hundreds of students fleeing in panic, police said early on Thursday (August 25), before the assault ended when two gunmen were shot dead. The attack began at around 6:30 p.m. local time (1400 GMT) on Wednesday (August 24) with a large explosion that officials said was a car bomb followed by […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Shotaro Yachi, head of Japan’s National Security Council, met with Chinese state councilor Yang Jiechi on Thursday (August 25) for talks in Beijing. The two shook hands at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse before sitting down to talks in which they discussed improving relations between the two countries. Yachi is expected to meet Premier Li Keqiang later on Thursday afternoon. Sino-Japanese relations, coloured by Japan’s occupation of parts of China before and […]
by Ella IDE with Angus MACKINNON in Rome ACCUMOLI, Italy (AFP) — The death toll from a powerful earthquake that shook central Italy rose to 247 on Thursday, officials said, as rescuers desperately searched for survivors in the rubble of devastated mountain villages. Hundreds of others were injured, some critically, and an unknown number were trapped under the ruins of collapsed buildings after Wednesday’s pre-dawn quake. Amid scenes of carnage, dozens of emergency services staff […]
by Mushtaq MOJADDIDI KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — At least nine people were killed after militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, officials said Thursday, in a nearly 10-hour raid that prompted anguished pleas for help from trapped students. Explosions and gunfire rocked the campus after the attack began Wednesday evening, just weeks after two university professors — an American and an Australian — were kidnapped at gunpoint near the school. No group has so […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has declared a recent submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test the “greatest success”, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday. The results of Wednesday’s launch proved the North had joined the “front rank of the military powers fully equipped with nuclear attack capability” and that the US mainland and the operational theatre in the Pacific were now “within the striking range” of the North’s army, KCNA news agency […]
by Mushtaq MOJADDIDI KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — An attack at the American University in Kabul ended early Thursday after two attackers were killed, police said nearly 10 hours after militants stormed the complex, prompting desperate pleas for help from trapped students. The attack triggered explosions and gunfire, killing at least one person and wounding 26 others in a raid which comes just weeks after two university professors — an American and an Australian — were […]
