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By Peter MARTELL NEW DELHI, June 9, 2024 (AFP) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in on Sunday for a third term after worse-than-expected election results left him reliant on coalition partners to govern. Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled outright for the past decade but failed to repeat its previous two landslide wins this time around, defying analysts’ expectations and exit polls. He was instead forced into quick-fire talks with the […]
WASHINGTON, June 8, 2024 (AFP) – Virgin Galactic on Saturday successfully completed its last spaceflight before heading into a two-year pause on commercial operations to upgrade its fleet, as the space tourism company seeks to finally turn a profit. “Galactic07 is back on terra firma, now as astronauts!” the company said on X, formerly Twitter, referring to a team of two pilots and two passengers. “Our pilots, crew and spaceship have landed safely at […]
GUATEMALA CITY, June 9, 2024 (AFP) – One of the most active volcanoes in Central America spewed gas and ash on Sunday, prompting Guatemalan authorities to warn air traffic and tourists to take extra precautions. The volcano named Fuego — located 35 kilometers (22 miles) from capital Guatemala City — saw “weak and moderate explosions occurring at a rate of four to seven per hour,” said the Institute of Volcanology (Insivumeh). It added in a […]
By Jay Deshmukh and Mark Anderson JERUSALEM, June 9, 2024 (AFP) – Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Sunday, heaping domestic pressure on the Israeli leader as the war in Gaza rages. The former general and defence minister announced his resignation from the emergency body after failing to get a post-war plan for Gaza approved by Netanyahu, which he demanded in May. The centrist politician’s departure is not […]
TOKYO (AFP) – Popular Japanese video-sharing website Niconico has suspended its services as it has been under “a large-scale cyberattack,” its operator said. “Currently, Niconico is under a large-scale cyberattack, and we are suspending our services to minimise its impact,” operator Dwango said in a statement late Saturday. “We are hastily investigating and taking countermeasures, but we won’t be able to restore the service until we make sure about its safety after completely excluding the […]
JERUSALEM, June 8, 2024 (AFP) – Four Israeli hostages rescued Saturday from a central Gaza refugee camp were freed by troops “from the heart of a civilian neighbourhood” in two simultaneous raids, the military said. The army named the rescued captives as Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41. It said they were rescued after a “complex daytime operation” which authorities in Hamas-run Gaza said left dozens […]
By Max Delany, with Yannick Pasquet in Athens, Claire Morand in Berlin, and Geza Molnar in Paty, Hungary BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 9, 2024 (AFP) – Voters across Europe cast ballots Sunday on the final — and biggest — day of elections for the EU’s parliament, with far-right parties expected to make gains at a pivotal time for the bloc. “In the current world situation, where everyone is trying to isolate each other, it’s important to […]
ATHENS, June 9, 2024 (AFP) – British diet guru and TV personality Michael Mosley was found dead on Sunday on the Greek island of Symi where he went missing this week, police said. “People on a boat saw a body close to the rocky coast,” said Petros Vassilakis, police chief for the southern Aegean region. The lifeless body was spotted by a television crew from Greece’s ERT public channel out filming in the area where […]
KYIV, Ukraine, June 9, 2024 (AFP) – Ukraine said Sunday it had hit an Su-57 fighter jet parked at an airfield in southern Russia, its first ever attack on Moscow’s latest generation stealth aircraft. The flagship Su-57 entered into service with Russia’s aerospace forces in December 2020 and was designed to replace ageing Soviet-designed fighter aircraft like the Su-27 and MiG-29. “On 8 June 2024, a Su-57 multi-purpose fighter jet of the aggressor state was […]
PUYLAURENS, France, June 8, 2024 (AFP) – Police and masked activists clashed at a protest over a motorway project in southern France Saturday, leaving five people hurt, local officials said. Thousands of demonstrators ignored a ban on the gathering to turn out for the protest at the site of the A-69 motorway between Castres and Toulouse in the southwest. A police officer hit by a Molotov cocktail, two paramilitary gendarmes and two protesters were injured […]
SEOUL, June 9, 2024 (AFP) – South Korea announced Sunday that it would resume loudspeaker propaganda campaigns against the North, after Pyongyang sent a fresh barrage of trash-filled balloons across the border. “We will install loudspeakers against North Korea today and carry out the broadcast,” the president’s office said in a statement. It added that “the responsibility for the escalation of tension between the two Koreas will be entirely up to the North.” North Korea […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Davao Occidental on Sunday, June 9. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit at 9:04 a.m. The epicenter was 143 kilometers southeast of Balut Island. The depth of focus was 59 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
