SYDNEY, Oct 25, (APP/AFP) – An aggressive seal has bitten a surfer and knocked another man off his board at a popular Sydney beach in a “freak occurrence”, a report said Tuesday. Nathan Shepherd underwent surgery on his arm after the fur seal leaped out of the water and bit him at Shelly Beach in […]
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Seal ‘attacks surfers’ in rare Australia encounter
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CONMEBOL sues US partner for $18 mn over corruption
ASUNCION, Oct 24, (APP/AFP) – South American football confederation CONMEBOL said on Monday it is suing American sponsorship partners ISM for $18 million in the continuing fall-out from a world football corruption scandal. “CONMEBOL has opened a process with New York State to cancel its contract with International Soccer Marketing Inc. (ISM) for the exclusive […]
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Elderly luxury hotel boss kidnapped in Cannes
NICE, France, Oct 24 (APP/AFP): The head of a five-star hotel in the French resort town of Cannes was kidnapped on Monday, the local prosecutor said. Jacqueline Veyrach, 76, president of the Grand Hotel in Cannes, was seized from her car in the middle of the day near her home in Nice, said prosecutor Jean-Michel […]
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Cyber attack likely mitigated, US Homeland Security says
WASHINGTON, Oct 24, (APP/AFP) – The cyber attack which darkened a large portion of the US internet on Friday has been mitigated, but officials continue to monitor the situation, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday. The domain name services company Dynamic Network Services Inc, or Dyn, suffered successive attacks, causing outages for hours for […]
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UN chief hopes South Africa will reconsider ICC withdrawal
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Oct 24 (APP/AFP): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he hopes South Africa will reconsider its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. Ban said in a statement that he regretted the decision which followed a dispute over South Africa’s refusal to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and hand him […]
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Nearly 50 flee rebel-held Aleppo: Syrian state media
BEIRUT, Oct 24 (APP/AFP): Nearly 50 people fled battered eastern districts of Aleppo into the government-controlled west of the city on Monday, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported. The incident comes after a unilateral three-day ceasefire declared by Russia and government forces ended on Sunday without any evacuations by the United Nations. “Forty-eight people from… […]