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by Vincent-Xavier MORVAN with Fran BLANDY in Paris NICE, France (AFP) — A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice Thursday, leaving at least 70 dead and scores injured in an “attack” after a Bastille Day fireworks display, prosecutors said. The government said the driver of the truck was shot dead after barrelling down the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais, sending hundreds of terrified people fleeing and leaving the seaside path strewn with […]
NICE, France (AFP) — The French government denied there was a hostage-taking incident after a truck ploughed into a crowd watching a fireworks display in Nice killing at least 60 people on Thursday. “There is no hostage-taking,” interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told AFP, denying dozens of rumors following the incident. “An individual drove a truck into the crowd. He was killed by police,” he said. “Investigations are currently under way to establish if the […]
NICE, France (AFP) — An AFP reporter had to shield his face from the flying debris as he watched a truck plough at full-speed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice on Thursday night, leaving at least 60 people dead. “It was absolute chaos,” said the AFP correspondent, who was among the crowd gathered to watch the fireworks for France’s national day on the beachfront Promenade des Anglais. “We saw people hit and bits […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Francois Hollande was heading back to Paris early Friday for crisis talks, his office said, after a van drove into a crowd in the resort of Nice in what a local official said was a “major criminal attack”. “He is coming back to Paris and will go directly to Place Beauvau to the crisis cell,” the presidency said. Hollande had been in the southern city of Avignon on a […]
NICE, France (AFP)–Up to 30 people were on Friday feared dead and around 100 injured in an “attack” in the French Riviera resort of Nice after a truck ploughed into a crowd of people leaving a Bastille Day firework display, city officials said. Witnesses described hearing gunfire, although this was not immediately confirmed by the authorities with images on social media showed casualties lying in the street, some being tended by paramedics. The incident comes as […]
JUBA, South Sudan (AFP) by Peter MARTELL with Michael O’HAGAN in Nimule, Uganda A heavily-armed Ugandan military convoy crossed into South Sudan on Thursday to evacuate citizens trapped in the capital Juba as fears persist that days of fierce fighting might reignite despite a ceasefire. The United Nations has warned of tension and the possibility of fresh fighting in Juba, where a ceasefire has held since late Monday. President Salva Kiir on Thursday called on […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) – Yemen’s government threatened Thursday to boycott UN-brokered peace talks, on the eve of their expected resumption in Kuwait, unless Iran-backed rebels commit to the terms of a United Nations resolution. The UN said however that it still had not been informed of any boycott from any side while affirming that the talks were scheduled to resume on Friday after a two-week break. More than two months of negotiations between President Abedrabbo […]
by Ayee Macaraig MANILa, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines urged Beijing on Thursday to respect an international tribunal’s ruling that rejected Chinese claims to most of the South China Sea, escalating a row that has raised the prospect of conflict. China reacted furiously to the verdict by a UN-back tribunal on Tuesday, insisting it will ignore the decision while warning its rivals too much pressure on the issue could turn the resource-rich and strategically vital […]
REUTERS — The alleged mastermind of the 2014 attack on a school in Pakistan in which more than 150 people died, most of them children, has been killed in an American drone strike in Afghanistan, the Pakistan military and sources in the Pakistani Taliban said. General Asim Bajwa, Director General of the Pakistani Army’s media division, reported the death of Umar Narai, also known as Khalifa Umar Mansoor or Khalid Khurasani, in a message on […]
Tesla Motors Inc. said on Tuesday (July 12) that its autosteer software was enabled during a crash involving a Model X in Montana at the weekend, according to a spokesperson for the California car maker. In the Montana crash, which took place on Sunday, the driver said Autopilot was engaged when the car slammed into 13 guardrails, according to Montana State Troopers. The driver was issued an $85 ticket for careless driving. Tesla said the […]
A Chinese man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack into the computer networks of Boeing and other major U.S. defense contractors, was sentenced on Wednesday (July 13) to nearly four years in prison, prosecutors said. Su Bin, 51, was charged with taking part in a years-long scheme by Chinese military officers to obtain sensitive military information. In addition to the 46-months-long prison term, a judge in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles also ordered […]
Tubs of spicy salsa being shipped through Mexico were found to have a surprise special ingredient; cocaine. Authorities in Mexico said they have seized hundreds of tubs of salsa with packages of cocaine concealed inside them. Footage released by marines in the Pacific state of Colima on Wednesday (July 13) showed officials cutting open the lids of the red salsa and pulling out bags of cocaine from the sauce. According to officials, 217 salsa tubs, […]
