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WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) — A proposal for a higher, stronger White House fence was presented to Washington planning officials on Thursday (May 5) in a bid to halt fence-jumping security breaches at one of the world’s most heavily guarded buildings. The fence at the U.S. president’s residence will be roughly twice as high and include devices to detect intruders and block climbers, according to the presentation by the National Park Service and Secret […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – by Kerry Sheridan The United States Thursday issued a sweeping ban on sales of e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and hookahs to those under 18, marking the first time these products have been federally regulated. The ban will go into effect in 90 days, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, which described the final rule — issued after several years of study and debate — as “historic.” “As cigarette […]
LAC LA BICHE, Canada (AFP) – by Michel Comte Sitting on the tailgate of his truck, strumming his guitar, the only item that he was able to salvage in a hurried evacuation of Fort McMurray as wildfires raged closer to the Canadian oil city, Alan Javierto says: “I just want to go home.” “Hopefully soon,” he adds. “But probably it will take weeks, maybe more.” The wildfires that forced almost 100,000 to flee and […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — by Damian Wroclavsky A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Thursday suspended Eduardo Cunha, the senior lawmaker at the center of efforts to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, citing his attempt to obstruct a probe into his alleged corruption. The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress is the architect of the impeachment drive which is expected to see Rousseff forced to step aside from office on Wednesday. Cunha’s dramatic setback was not […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — by Olivier Baube German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged European leaders to protect EU borders or risk a “return to nationalism” as the continent battles its worst migration crisis since World War II. As Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi kicked off two days of talks in Rome with Merkel and senior EU officials, the German leader said Europe must defend its borders “from the Mediterranean to the North Pole” or suffer […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi police shot dead two suspected militants and two others blew themselves up during a raid near the holy city of Mecca on Thursday, the interior ministry said. “The terrorists started shooting towards security forces, which they responded to”, leading to the deaths of a pair of suspects while the others “committed suicide by blowing themselves up with suicide belts”, the ministry’s spokesman said in a statement. Police had surrounded the […]
BEIRUT , Lebanon (AFP) — A double bomb attack on Thursday in central Syria killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 40 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. State television reported that at least six people were killed and 28 seriously wounded in the suicide attack and car bombing in a square in Mukharram al-Fawqani in Homs province. The area, controlled by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, is located between the cities of […]
JERUSALEM , Israel (AFP) — Israeli air strikes hit four Hamas sites in Gaza Wednesday night, the military said, following air raids earlier in the day as tensions flared along the border of the Palestinian territory. “Overnight, in response to the ongoing attacks against Israeli forces, an IAF aircraft targeted four Hamas terrorist infrastructure sites in the northern Gaza Strip,” the military said in a statement. The Israeli army hit five Hamas operated sites earlier […]
BEIJING , China (AFP) — One of China’s top folk singers is rocking her away across disputed territory in the South China Sea, serenading hundreds of troops and construction workers stationed there, Chinese media reported Thursday. Song Zuying, who has performed with the likes of Canadian superstar Celine Dion, is part of an all-singing, all-dancing People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entertainment tour of the Spratly Islands, reports said. Footage of the troupe’s performance broadcast on Chinese […]
A tract of land with ramshackle houses and rubble surrounded by high-rise buildings in a northern corner of Shanghai is prime property — and home to some of the most stubborn people in China. It is located along the rapidly developing Suzhou creek corridor, convenient to the subway and shopping malls were floor space is priced at around $12,000 per square metre. The Guangfuli neighbourhood is a property investor’s dream because a square metre of the […]
NAIROBI , Kenya (AFP) — The mother of a seven-month-old girl miraculously pulled alive after four days in the rubble of a collapsed building in Nairobi has been found dead, rescue workers said Wednesday. The baby, Delarine Saisi, was found dehydrated but without visible physical injuries 80 hours after the six-storey block collapsed on Friday during heavy rains, killing at least 26 people. Pius Masai, head of Kenya’s natural disaster management unit, told a press […]
The U.N. said on Wednesday (May 4) it welcomed a statement released by the United States that it had agreed with Russia to extend a cessation of hostilities to include Aleppo, where intense day-long violence between Syrian rebels and government forces killed dozens of people. At a special Security Council session convened to discuss the situation in Aleppo, U.N. political chief Jeffrey Feltman urged “parties to abide by this immediately and comprehensively”. Feltman said reports […]
