COLOMBO, (APP/AFP) – Foreign aid began arriving Saturday in Sri Lanka, bringing help to half a million people who have been driven from their homes by heavy rains and deadly landslides, as floodwaters subsided slightly, officials said. The Sri Lankan Foreign ministry said an Indian air force plane carrying emergency supplies had arrived in Colombo […]
International News
Foreign aid reaches flooded Sri Lankan capital
-
Dignity only in death for migrants at France’s Calais ‘Jungle’
CALAIS, France, (APP/AFP) – They fled hardship and war only to find misery and squalor, but migrants who met a gruesome end in northern France hoping to reach England are finally getting a touch of dignity in death. More than 30 people have perished since June last year in and around the vast, infamous camp […]
-
Turkish parliament adopts contentious immunity bill: speaker
ANKARA, (APP/AFP) – Turkey’s parliament on Friday adopted a highly divisive bill that will lift immunity for dozens of pro-Kurdish and other MPs and could see them thrown out of parliament. The bill was backed by 376 MPs in the 550-seat legislature, which means it will become law directly without being put to a referendum, […]
-
Poland PM says will never bow to EU ‘ultimatum’
WARSAW, (APP/AFP): Poland’s rightwing Prime Minister Beata Szydlo vowed Friday that her government would never bow to any EU ultimatum and accused some members of the European Commission of trying to “destroy” the 28-member bloc. Szydlo was responding to a Monday deadline set by the Commission for Poland to reverse a controversial overhaul of the […]
-
Police helicopter crashes in southwest France: army
TOULOUSE, France, (APP/AFP) – A helicopter carrying four members of France’s paramilitary police crashed in a mountainous area of southwest France Friday, killing at least one person, the force announced. A source had initially said four people had been killed in the crash in Cauterets, but that was subsequently revised down to at least one […]
-
EgyptAir wreckage found in Mediterranean: Egypt army
CAIRO, (APP/AFP) – Egypt’s military said its search teams found wreckage on Friday from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean with 66 people on board. “Egyptian aircraft and navy vessels have found personal belongings of passengers and parts of the wreckage 290 kilometres (180 miles) north of Alexandria,” its spokesman said on his […]