Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has survived an assassination attempt months after President Jovenel Moïse was killed by assassins in his residence. In an interview with AFP on Monday, he said that was targeted in the assassination attempt during weekend national day celebrations. “An attempt has been made against...
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Five people were killed and nine others remain missing after a landslide hit a construction site in Bijie City, southwest China’s Guizhou Province Monday, local authorities said Tuesday. The landslide occurred at around 7 p.m. on Monday, according to the municipal government of Bijie. As of 7 a.m. Tuesday,...
Tanaka, from Japan, was born in 1903, and married a rice shop owner at the age of 19. She worked in the family store until she was 103. Tanaka who has seen two world wars, survived the 1918 Spanish flu, seen 49 Summer and Winter Olympic Games. She reached...
Sudan’s civilian Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok resigned Sunday, more than two months after a coup and following another deadly crackdown on protesters, with the military now firmly in control. Sudan had been undergoing a fragile journey toward civilian rule since the 2019 ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir but was...
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was rushed to hospital early Monday morning for treatment of a probable intestinal obstruction, local media reported. Bolsonaro, 66, who has been in power since 2019, was taken to Vila Nova Star hospital in Sao Paulo. TV Globo showed images of him disembarking from the...
Jim Wood has thought a lot about it and he just does not believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. “I don’t consider him the president of the United States,” the retired US Air Force veteran told AFP at his New Hampshire home surrounded by oak and...
Thousands more people have fled swamped homes as heavy rains exacerbated flooding in seven Malaysian states, officials said Sunday, with over 125,000 people evacuated in total since mid-December. The National Disaster Management Agency said the weeks-long bout of bad weather was expected to carry on until Tuesday. Dangerous water...
Eleven soldiers were wounded and 29 “terrorists” neutralised in a weekend attack on security forces in Burkina Faso’s troubled northwest, the army said on Sunday. Military and police units came under attack on Saturday in the area of Gomboro “by armed individuals”, the army said. “The fighting caused injuries...
Five people were killed and 21 were injured in a bus accident south of Moscow in the early hours of Sunday, Russian authorities said. Russia’s Federal Road Traffic Inspection agency said the accident took place at around 5:45 am local time (0245 GMT) in the Ryazan region. “As a...
Houses of Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa have been destroyed by fire, according to News24. Firefighters were called to the scene just after 5am local time as video footage shows a plume of black smoke filling the sky amid fears parts of the building could collapse. Huge...
A ban on the use of plastic to package a range of fruit and vegetables came into force in France on Saturday, to the dismay of the sector’s packaging industry. Environmentalists have long campaigned against single-use plastics as pollution worsens globally while President Emmanuel Macron has backed the move...
Pope Francis urged the world to “roll up our sleeves” for peace in a New Year’s message Saturday, while calling violence against women an affront to God. Marking the 55th World Day of Peace, the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics devoted his Angelus address to encouraging a...
At least 12 people died and 13 were injured in a stampede at a religious shrine in India in the early hours of Saturday as thousands of pilgrims massed to offer prayers, officials said. The disaster happened around 3:00 am (2130 GMT) while it was still dark on the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his United States counterpart Joe Biden that any sanctions over Ukraine would be a big mistake, an aide to the Kremlin said on Thursday, after the two leaders spoke by phone ahead of lower-level talks next month. The call, which US officials said...
Tens of thousands of residents in two communities in the US state of Colorado have been ordered to evacuate following wind-fueled wildfires that engulfed parts of the area in smoky, orangish skies and destroyed hundreds of homes. At least one first responder and six others were injured, though Boulder...
Niger has ordered the expulsion of eight Rwandans linked to the East African country’s 1994 genocide for “diplomatic reasons”, just a month after they were welcomed in the capital Niamey, according to a ministerial order seen by AFP on Wednesday. The order was published after a previous report on...
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday condemned last week’s massacre in Myanmar of more than 30 people, including two Save the Children staff, that was blamed on junta troops. The killings took place on Christmas Eve in eastern Kayah state, where pro-democracy rebels have been fighting the military,...
At least eight people, including two children, died in a shooting in a region of central Mexico plagued by turf wars between rival drug cartels, authorities said Wednesday. Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at homes in the municipality of Silao in Guanajuato state late Tuesday, according to...
Four Malian soldiers were killed and around a dozen others were wounded when they were attacked in the west of the county, the army said Thursday. Mali’s Armed Forces (FAMA) said the attack occurred late Tuesday in a region of the country where jihadists have attacked soldiers in the...
The body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was carried Thursday into a historic cathedral where he once railed against the white rule to allow South Africans to bid farewell to the anti-apartheid icon. A small bouquet of carnations was placed on top of a simple pine coffin carried by six...