Published on 10.09.2019 at 11h54 by AFP Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has met Germany’s foreign minister as he carries abroad his call to support the growing pro-democracy movement in the former British colony, a meeting slammed on Tuesday by China as “disrespectful”. Posting a photo of himself and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on his […]
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ABUJA, Sept 10 (Reuters) – At least 640 Nigerians have signed up to take free flights home from South Africa after xenophobic attacks on foreigners, a spokeswoman for Nigeria’s president said on Tuesday. Private Nigerian airline Air Peace plans to operate two flights with Boeing 777 aircraft, the first leaving Lagos late on Tuesday to […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 10h54 by AFP Burhan Nazir Parrey, 16, had a gaping wound in his shoulder the size of a cricket ball, the latest victim of what Kashmiris say is indiscriminate brutality by Indian forces. He is one of the lucky ones. Locals accuse Indian security forces of being responsible for four deaths […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 10h54 by AFP Armed Polish border guards boarded Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior ship, which was blocking a cargo of coal from being unloaded at the port of Gdansk, the environmental group said Tuesday. The overnight intervention by a special maritime unit was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the guards, Agnieszka Golias, who […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 10h54 by AFP A woman has died of her wounds in hospital after her estranged Dutch policeman husband shot her and his two young daughters before turning the gun on himself, prosecutors said Tuesday. The shooting happened on Monday night at a home in the Dutch city of Dordrecht, a river […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 10h54 by AFP French authorities are working to declassify military files linked to a mysterious crash more than 50 years ago of an Air France plane that plunged into the Mediterranean just minutes before it was due to land, killing all 95 people aboard, families said. French President Emmanuel Macron pledged […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 09h54 by AFP Huge fires are raging across vast swathes of Indonesia’s rainforests — some of the world’s biggest — with toxic smog shutting hundreds of schools across Southeast Asia, officials said Tuesday. Massive jungle areas in Sumatra and Borneo island are ablaze as thousands of personnel battle to quell the […]
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The Taliban on Tuesday vowed to continue fighting against US forces in Afghanistan after President Donald Trump said talks with the insurgents were “dead”, saying Washington would regret abandoning negotiations. The renewed war of words between the two sides raised the spectre of violence in Afghanistan as Trump and the Taliban pledged to take the […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 08h54 by AFP Crisis-hit Japanese automaker Nissan hopes the resignation of its embattled chief executive will help turn the page on the tumult unleashed by the arrest of former chief Carlos Ghosn. But the firm still faces plenty of challenges, from naming a successor to Hiroto Saikawa and repairing its alliance […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 08h54 by AFP Indian space scientists were desperately trying Tuesday to establish communication with their broken Moon lander, having located the probe that went silent moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing. The lander, called Vikram — after the founder of India’s space programme — was due […]
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Published on 10.09.2019 at 07h54 by AFP Hong Kong’s secondary schools have become the latest ideological battleground for pro-democracy protesters with thousands of students taking part in human chain rallies since the new academic year kicked off. Tam, 16, was outside his school in Hong Kong’s Yau Ma Tei district earlier this week where he […]
Read More * “Nollywood” is world’s second-largest film industry * Investors seek access to industry’s content, audience * African states offer “rare” pay-TV growth opportunity By Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS, Sept 10 (Reuters) – “Oya!” shouts the director in Nigerian Pidgin English. Actors take their marks. Lighting blinks on. The film crew snaps into action after the order […]
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