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Hollande hails Calais ‘Jungle’ camp evacuation

  • DOUI-LA-FONTAINE, France, Oct 29, (APP/AFP) – President Francois Hollande on Saturday hailed this week’s evacuation of the squalid Calais “Jungle” as a success as he vowed France would not accept the emergence of any more makeshift migrant camps. “There were no incidents from start to finish,” Hollande said of the evacuation of the Jungle camp […]

  • Rains, floods kill 18 in Egypt

    CAIRO, Oct 29, (APP/AFP) – At least 18 people were killed over three days of heavy rains and flooding in parts of Egypt, the health ministry said on Saturday. The toll included nine people killed in South Sinai province of eastern Egypt since Thursday, the ministry said in a statement. Elsewhere, six others died when […]

  • Political concerns stopping N Korea flood aid: Red Cross

    BEIJING, Oct 29, (APP/AFP) – Political concerns over the North Korean regime are stopping vital relief aid from reaching the victims of a major flood there, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said Saturday. Nearly 70,000 people are estimated to have lost their homes in disastrous flooding in North Hamgyong […]

  • Two suicide bombers kill nine in NE Nigeria: emergency services

    KANO, Nigeria, Oct 29, (APP/AFP): Two suicide bombings rocked Nigeria’s northeast city of Maiduguri on Saturday morning, killing at least nine people and injuring scores of others, emergency services said. “Two suicide bombers riding in motorised rickshaws this morning detonated their explosives 10 minutes apart, with one of them targeting the Bakassi IDP (internally displaced […]

  • 25 dead, including six police, in clashes in Central African Republic: UN

    BANGUI, Central African Republic, Oct 29 (APP/AFP) – Twenty-five people were killed, six of them gendarmes, in two days of violence around the town of Bambari in the troubled Central African Republic, the UN force MINUSCA said Saturday. Six police and four civilians were killed in an ambush by armed men Friday morning, while on […]

  • Palestinian president meets Hamas chief

    RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, Oct 28 (APP/AFP): Palestinian president and Fatah leader Mahmud Abbas has met the head of Hamas and his deputy in Qatar, a Palestinian official said Friday, in a sign of easing tensions. Thursday’s meeting in the Qatari capital was the first between Abbas and Doha-based Khaled Meshaal in two years, and the […]