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Six dead after migrant boat capsizes in Channel

Lille, France, Aug 12 (AFP/APP): Six people were killed when a boat carrying migrants heading to Britain sank in the Channel early Saturday, French maritime officials said, as a search continued to find those still missing. A spokeswoman from the French coastal authority Premar said […]

UN agencies call for saving lives, after yet another Mediterranean tragedy

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (APP):Three UN agencies have appealed for greater access to safe and regular pathways for migration and asylum in the European Union after another deadly shipwreck claimed dozens of lives in the Mediterranean. The International Organization for Migration (IOM); the UN refugee […]

Waiting to go home: 48,000 evacuated in Myanmar floods

Bago, Myanmar, Aug 12 (AFP/APP): A baby slept peacefully under a mosquito net oblivious to hundreds of evacuated flood victims lined up for food at a monastery in Myanmar on Saturday, all waiting for water levels to recede before they can return home. Floods and […]

Global COVID-19 cases up 80% as new subvariant rises

PARIS Aug 11 (Online): The number of new COVID-19 cases reported worldwide rose by 80 percent in the last month, the World Health Organization said on Friday, days after designating a new “variant of interest.” The WHO declared in May that COVID-19 is no longer […]

Ahead of nuclear waste release, leak found in Japan’s crippled plant’s hose

TOKYO Aug 11 (Online): As Japan moves ahead in its controversial plans to release treated nuclear waste into the sea, authorities have detected “higher-than-usual levels” of radioactive material in rainwater around a storage tank, local media reported. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said the […]

China earmarks 1.46 bln yuan for relief for flood victims

BEIJING, Aug 11 (XINHUA/APP):China on Friday earmarked 1.46 billion yuan (about 203.95 million U.S. dollars) to provide relief to people severely affected by recent floods and ensure their basic livelihoods, according to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management. The funds will […]

China’s capital triples death toll from heaviest-ever rains

BEIJING Aug 10 (Online): Seven people were killed in flash floods in south-western China on Wednesday, as authorities in Beijing tripled the death toll from the capital’s heaviest-ever rains. China has been hit by record downpours in recent weeks, damaging infrastructure and deluging swaths of […]

Ecuador Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio assassinated, one suspect dead

ISLAMABAD Aug 10 (Online): Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, a vocal critic of corruption and organised crime, was killed at a campaign event on Wednesday, authorities said, amid an upsurge in violence in the Andean nation blamed on drug traffickers. Local media reported some 30 […]

UN chief voices concern about health, safety of Niger’s detained President

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 10 (APP): UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed concern about the reported “deplorable living conditions” of the President of Niger in arbitrary detention, his spokesperson said on Thursday. President Mohamed Bazoum and his family are believed to be living without electricity, water, […]

Three French police charged over man’s death during riots

Marseille, Aug 10 (AFP/APP): Three French police were charged on Thursday over a 27-year-old man’s death during nationwide rioting earlier this summer, prosecutors said, an uncommon instance of officers facing a criminal case over on-duty violence. An autopsy of the man who died in Marseille […]

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