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by Michael Mathes CHARLOTTE, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama delivered a forceful plea Tuesday for Hillary Clinton to succeed him as president, praising the character of his former secretary of state whose horizon brightened after the FBI recommended no charges be filed over her email scandal. Obama, returning to a swing state that helped elect him in 2008, laid out a passionate, compelling case declaring he is “ready to pass the baton” to Clinton […]
(Reuters) — Japan has succeeded in producing the world’s first penguin conceived through artificial insemination after six years of research aimed at developing technology to preserve the endangered species. In the video that Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan shared with Reuters, a caretaker is seen weighing the young southern rockhopper penguin and saying she has gained weight. The chick is healthy, according to the aquarium, and put on the scales every day, growing at a rate that has […]
BOGATA, Colombia (AFP) — A new species of tarantula has been identified near the home town of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and in an unusual posthumous honor, the spider has been named for the late Nobel literature laureate, officials said Tuesday. The newly researched “Kankuamos marquezi” is named for both Garcia Marquez and the indigenous Kankuamo group who live in the area of Caribbean Colombia where the writer was born. The newly high-profile arachnid has a […]
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) — At least four people were killed in a double car bomb attack Wednesday targeting a military base adjoining Aden’s international airport, according to a military source who blamed jihadists. The attackers detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the base, allowing a second vehicle to drive inside where it exploded, the source told AFP, with at least four dead among the military. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
The dead and wounded from a Turkish military helicopter crash were transported to local hospitals late on Tuesday (July 5). Seven people were killed and eight injured when the helicopter, carrying Turkish military personnel, their wives and children, crashed in the Black Sea region of northeast Turkey, the Turkish armed forces said. The helicopter crashed at around 5:15 pm (1415 GMT) near Tohumluk village in the Alucra district of Giresun province, the military said. Vehicles […]
Drug experts gathered in Mexico City on Tuesday (July 05) for talks on the regulation of marijuana in the cartel-ravaged country, amidst warnings that opium production is opening up a new front in the war on drugs. The conference called Bioethics and Public Health In Marijuana Regulation brings together thinkers and leading experts in on illicit drugs. It comes after a landmark Supreme Court decision late last year that paved the way for liberalization of […]
CHINA’S ongoing military drill in South China Sea does not target any country in the regions’ dispute, said Chinese military experts on Monday. Experts from the China’s National Defense Ministry say that it is just a routine military exercise in accordance with the annual plan so it is neither necessary to link it with the arbitration case, nor target at any claimants in the South China Sea disputes, including the Philippines. The Chinese experts […]
(REUTERS) — Drug experts gathered in Mexico City on Tuesday (July 05) for talks on the regulation of marijuana in the cartel-ravaged country, amidst warnings that opium production is opening up a new front in the war on drugs. The conference called Bioethics and Public Health In Marijuana Regulation brings together thinkers and leading experts in on illicit drugs. It comes after a landmark Supreme Court decision late last year that paved the way for […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Seventeen people including 11 Russians have been charged over the Istanbul airport attack, Dogan news agency reported Tuesday, bringing to 30 the total number charged over the suicide assault. The latest suspects , who also include six Turks, were charged with “belonging to an armed terrorist group”. Ankara says the Islamic State group is behind the June 28 gun and bomb attack at Ataturk international airport, which left 45 people dead […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The European Union’s top economic official on Tuesday criticised a British proposal to slash corporate tax to less than 15 percent following the nation’s vote to abandon the bloc. Britain’s finance minister George Osborne said at the weekend he would seek to slash corporation tax to under 15 percent over fears of a corporate exodus following the June 23 referendum to leave the European Union. The 28-nation EU gave a frosty reception […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Flooding in China’s Yangtze river basin has left 112 people dead or missing in recent days, media said Tuesday, with more damage feared from a typhoon expected to land within days. Some 16 million people have been affected by heavy rains that have left vast areas under water near the Yangtze, China’s longest river, the Beijing News cited the civil affairs ministry as saying. Water levels in Taihu Lake, close to […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australian leader Malcolm Turnbull Tuesday rejected calls for him to resign after the weekend’s disastrous election, as senior government figures pleaded against infighting. Three days after polls closed the result is still too close to call, with Turnbull’s Liberal/National coalition and the opposition Labor each short of the 76 seats needed to govern, raising the prospect of a hung parliament. On Monday, Labor leader Bill Shorten urged the prime minister to […]
