COLOMBO, (APP/AFP): Desperate Sri Lankans clambered onto rubber dinghies and makeshift rafts Friday to flee their homes in the flooded capital Colombo as fresh downpours elsewhere stalled rescue efforts at disaster zones. The heaviest rains in a quarter of a century have pounded the island since last weekend, sparking huge landslides that have buried victims […]
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200,000 flee capital as Sri Lanka flood misery worsens
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French investigators in Egypt to aid crash probe
CAIRO,(APP/AFP): Investigators from France’s air accident authority and Airbus have arrived in Egypt to help probe the mysterious crash of an EgyptAir plane in the Mediterranean, the French embassy said Friday. Three BEA civil aviation experts and an Airbus technical adviser arrived in Cairo overnight, while search and rescue teams hunted for signs of wreckage, […]
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Clinton’s lead over Trump narrows in latest US poll
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has narrowed since he became the apparent winner of the Republican presidential nomination, according to a national poll out on Friday. The CBS News/New York Times survey found that 47 percent of registered voters would support Clinton, while 41 percent back Trump. The same survey gave […]
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Israel defence minister resigns in spat with Netanyahu
JERUSALEM, (APP/AFP) – Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon announced his resignation on Friday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his post to hardliner Avigdor Lieberman to expand his governing coalition. “I told the prime minister this morning that due to his conduct in recent developments, and in light of my lack of trust in him, […]
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Syria regime strikes kill 21 civilians: monitor
BEIRUT, (APP/AFP): At least 21 civilians, including seven children, were killed on Thursday in regime air strikes that targeted several towns in central Syria, a monitoring group said. Fourteen civilians — four of them children — were killed when a barrage of barrel bombs hit the town of Al-Houla and neighbouring villages, according to the […]
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Myanmar police charge dozens of labour activists over rally
YANGON, (APP/AFP) – Some 50 Myanmar factory workers and activists involved in a protest march that ended in scuffles with security forces this week have been charged with rioting, police said Friday. The latest move by authorities to punish demonstrators from recent rallies comes despite efforts by Aung San Suu Kyi’s new civilian-led government to […]