UNITED NATIONS, United States, Oct 14, (APP/AFP): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Haiti on Saturday to visit areas devastated by Hurricane Matthew as a UN funding appeal for the Caribbean nation drew few donors. Ban will visit Les Cayes on Haiti’s southern coast — one of the cities hardest-hit by Matthew — and […]
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UN chief to visit hurricane-hit Haiti as funding appeal falls short
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Tour bus crash kills 10 in S. Korea
SEOUL, Oct 14, (APP/AFP): At least 10 people were killed and seven others seriously injured after their tour bus crashed and caught fire on a highway near South Korea’s southeastern city of Ulsan, police said Friday. Although the precise cause of the accident is still under investigation, the driver of the bus was taken into […]
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Two Poles killed in Himalaya climbing accident
WARSAW, Oct 13 (APP/AFP) – Two Polish mountaineers were killed while scaling a 6,500-metre (21,300-foot) peak in the Indian Himalayas, a climbing group said Thursday. The men got stuck on a wall Monday during their ascent of Mount Shivling in northern India, according to the Polish Mountaineering Association (PZA). One of the climbers, Grzegorz Kukurowski, […]
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17 dead in car bomb at Syria rebel checkpoint: monitor
DAMASCUS, Oct 13 (APP/AFP) – At least 17 people, most of them rebels, were killed in a car bomb blast at an opposition checkpoint in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Thursday, a monitor said. The blast hit near the town of Azaz, close to the border with Turkey, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for […]
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Obama pays tribute to late Thai king as ‘close friend’ of US
PITTSBURGH, Oct 13 (APP/AFP) – US President Barack Obama extended condolences Thursday to Thailand for the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, calling him a “close friend” and partner of the United States. Obama paid tribute to the king, whose death at age 88 was announced Thursday, as a “tireless champion” for Thailand’s development, praising his […]
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US banks planning exodus from Brexit Britain: French minister
PARIS, Oct 13 (APP/AFP) – French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Thursday that US banks had confirmed to him they would move some activities out of Brexit Britain to other European countries. Sapin said that until now US banks had adopted a wait-and-see approach towards their British investments. “For them, until now, the question was […]