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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Super Typhoon Nepartak lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rain as it made landfall Friday, injuring dozens and forcing more than 15,000 to evacuate their homes as the island cancelled hundreds of flights and shut offices and schools. Packing gusts of up to 198 kilometres per hour (123 miles per hour), it landed at Taimali township in eastern Taitung county shortly before 6:00 am (2200 GMT Thursday) and was moving […]
WARSAW, Poland (AAFP) — After the latest deadly shooting of a black American by police, President Barack Obama on Thursday said US police departments needed to move more quickly to reform. Obama offered condolences to the family of the black motorist, who was killed by a Minnesota cop, and insisted the country had seen “tragedies like this too many times”. Citing a litany of evidence to show that non-white Americans are more likely to be […]
by Joy Powell SAINT PAUL, United States (AFP) — For Ericka Cullars-Golden, one of hundreds of people protesting the fatal police shooting of a black man in Minnesota, the incident provoked a sadly familiar feeling of shock. Cullars-Golden said she lost her son Marcus Golden at the hands of Saint Paul police last year — shot in the head. “I am so traumatized,” she said of her son’s death. Like Philando Castile, the man fatally […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Obama administration came under fire Thursday over the disappearance of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate in Uruguay, as Republican lawmakers voiced fears he and others freed from the military prison could again threaten America. Jihad Diyab — a 44-year-old Syrian who was resettled in Uruguay in 2014 along with five other ex-detainees — went off the South American country’s radar several weeks ago after apparently evading border controls and […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Islamic State group militants killed 30 people at a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad, striking the area with suicide bombers, gunfire and mortar rounds, an Iraqi security spokesman said Friday. The overnight attack also wounded 50 people, the Joint Operations Command spokesman said in a statement. The Sayyid Mohammed shrine was first targeted with mortar rounds, after which suicide bombers arrived at the shrine and opened fire, the statement said. Two […]
by Sébastien BLANC WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — FBI chief James Comey on Thursday vigorously defended his recommendation not to file charges against Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton over her private email use at the State Department, saying she did not break the law. Comey, summoned to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, reiterated his finding that while Clinton and her staff were careless, she did not lie to […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Super Typhoon Nepartak lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rain as it made landfall early Friday, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes as the island cancelled hundreds of flights and shut offices and schools for the day. Packing gusts of up to 234 kilometers per hour (145 miles per hour), it landed at Taimali township in eastern Taitung county shortly before 6:00 am (2200 GMT Thursday). One man drowned off […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday urged respect for a decision on territorial disputes in the South China Sea set to be handed down by an international arbitration court next week. The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Dutch city of The Hague is set to make its final decision on Tuesday in the case between the Philippines and China. “We urge both parties to comply with the ruling and urge […]
by Alice RITCHIE Britain will have its first female prime minister since Margaret Thatcher after Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom made the shortlist on Thursday to be the leader who will guide the country out of the EU. “Who’ll be the new Maggie?” asked the front page of the Daily Mail newspaper after cabinet veteran May won 199 votes from the 329 ruling Conservative lawmakers who took part in the ballot for next party leader […]
(Reuters) A suspected pipe bomb injured 25 people on a passenger train in the Taiwanese capital late on Thursday, officials said. The blast shook Taipei’s Songshan station close to midnight and witnesses quoted on Taiwanese television described seeing a man leaving a long black device on the train just before the explosion. Premier Lin Chuan told Taiwanese television the blast appeared to be a deliberate “act of malice”. Police and the Taipei fire department […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — US senator Bernie Sanders, who battled Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, is expected to endorse her next week at a rally in New Hampshire, the New York Times reported Thursday. Three Democrats involved in planning Tuesday’s event, who spoke to the US newspaper on condition of anonymity, said the anticipated endorsement is the results of weeks of talks between the two campaigns aimed at unifying the party. […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) by Deborah COLE The German parliament passed a landmark “no means no” rape law Thursday, broadening the definition of sex crimes and making it easier to deport migrants and refugees who commit them. After years of anguished discussion on the need for tougher treatment of rape by the German criminal justice system, the new legislation finally came together following a rash of sexual assaults in crowds on New Year’s Eve in […]
