TUNIS (Reuters) – The Tunisian navy rescued 98 Tunisians fleeing to Europe when their boat started to sink off Kerkenah on the southeast coast late on Saturday, the national guard said. Separately, the army said it had arrested 43 illegal migrants rescued from four boats off Zarzis, also on the southeast coast. Tunisia has been […]
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will finish unloading a 63,000-tonne cargo of Romanian wheat held by the country for containing poppy seeds by Tuesday, an agriculture ministry official said on Sunday. Forty-three thousand tonnes have already been unloaded, said Agriculture Ministry spokesman Hamid Abdel Dayem, adding none of the cargo had been transferred for sieving yet. […]
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – A military cargo plane crashed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa on Saturday, killing its 12 crew members, the defence minister said. “I confirm that a military aircraft crashed this morning,” said Defence Minister Crispin Atama Tabe. “All 12 members of the crew died.” According to an army officer who witnessed […]
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BEIJING (Reuters) – A 5.5 magnitude earthquake rattled southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Saturday, part of the country frequently struck by temblors, with initial reports of only minor damage and no reports of casualties. The quake struck 78 kilometres (48 miles) west of Guangyuan city, the United States Geological Survey said, with a depth of […]
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By Alison Bevege SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia dispatched a naval vessel to Vanuatu on Saturday to help the South Pacific nation evacuate all 11,000 inhabitants from the northern island of Ambae as an erupting volcano threatens to shower down burning ash and acid rain. Vanuatu ordered the full evacuation of the island after the nation’s […]
Read More By Bryan Sims HOUSTON (Reuters) – Cancer-causing dioxins leached from a Superfund site along a Texas river during Hurricane Harvey flooding, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said, triggering calls on Friday for the toxic waste to be permanently moved. The EPA ordered International Paper and Industrial Maintenance Corp, a subsidiary of Waste Management Inc, on […]
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By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has asked federal regulators to attempt to keep the nation’s struggling coal and nuclear power plants open by rewarding them for contributing to the resilience of the electric grid, the Department of Energy said on Friday. The move drew praise from the coal and […]
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Beyonce has released a new single and video to help with relief efforts following the recent natural disasters in the Caribbean and Mexico. “Mi Gente (My People),” a remix of the Latin hit by J. Balvin and Willy William, marks the R&B singer’s first new music since giving birth to twins […]
Read More JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The South African Weather Service said on Friday that it now forecasts a weak La Nina weather pattern to develop in the early summer, raising expectations for above-normal rainfall across large swathes of the country, including parts of the maize belt. But it cautioned in its monthly outlook, that looks five months […]
Read More (Reuters) – Lee, previously a hurricane, has weakened to tropical storm strength and is expected to dissipate on Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday. The tropical storm is located about 1210 miles (1950 km) west-northwest of the Azores with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (110 km per hour), […]
Read More (Reuters) – YRC Worldwide Inc said on Friday its freight terminal in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico has resumed limited operations and is working to provide service to customers as soon as possible. The company’s YRC Freight unit told customers in a service alert that damage, power outages, road closures, and fuel shortages due to Hurricane Maria […]
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(Reuters) – Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has been involved in a road accident in the Netherlands and will be assessed by club doctors when he returns on Friday, the Premier League side has said. “Sergio Aguero will be assessed by Club doctors today after being involved in a road accident on Thursday,” City said […]
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