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December 12, 2019
NZ military set for risky mission to retrieve bodies from volcano
WHAKATANE, New Zealand — New Zealand's military will embark on a risky dawn mission to retrieve eight bodies from the still-active White Island volcano, officials said on Thursday, as pressure from distraught victims' families mounted.Teams will move in "shortly after first light" on Friday, deputy police commissioner Mike Clement said, despite volcanologists warning that the chances of another significant eruption in the next 24 hours had risen to 50-60 percent."They ...
December 12, 2019
Suu Kyi slammed for 'silence' over Myanmar genocide claims
THE HAGUE — The Gambia hit out Ton hursday at Aung San Suu Kyi's "silence" over the plight of Rohingya Muslims after the Nobel peace laureate defended Myanmar against genocide charges at the UN's top court.Lawyers for the African country said her arguments that Myanmar's 2017 military crackdown was a "clearance operation" targeting militants ignored widespread allegations of mass murder, rape and forced deportation."Madame agent, your silence said far more ...
December 12, 2019
Algeria polling stations ransacked in unpopular presidential vote
ALGIERS — Algeria held a presidential election on Thursday that has been fiercely opposed by a ten-month-old protest movement and was hit by unrest at several provincial polling stations.The demonstrators who forced aging President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign his two-decade tenure in April have pushed on with weekly rallies to demand far more sweeping reforms to the political system ahead of any vote.Shortly after polls opened, attackers "ransacked the ballot ...
December 12, 2019
71 killed in Niger military camp: Defense ministry
NIAMEY — Hundreds of militants attacked a Niger military camp near the border with Mali with shelling and mortars, killing 71 soldiers, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.Tuesday's attack in Inates in the western Tillaberi region was the deadliest on Niger's military since the country's militant violence began in 2015."Sadly, we regret to announce the following toll: 71 military personnel killed, 12 injured. Others missing," the defense ministry said in ...
December 12, 2019
Bangladesh plastics factory blaze kills 13
DHAKA — At least 13 people were killed and nearly 20 people were critically injured when a fire swept through an illegal plastics factory outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police said on Thursday.Factory fires are common in Bangladesh, especially in the dry winter season, due to lax enforcement of safety codes.The blaze started on Wednesday afternoon and quickly ripped through the ground floor of the Prime Patent Plastic factory in ...
December 12, 2019
Election-weary Israel to face third vote in a year
JERUSALEM — Israel's political system was facing an unprecedented crisis Thursday, after the country's politicians failed to form a government and dissolved for a new election — the third in a year.Less than three months after an inconclusive general election, with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and challenger Benny Gantz failing to form a governing coalition, the Israeli parliament dissolved itself in the early hours of Thursday, setting a new ...
December 12, 2019
Lebanon must form credible govt to win support: ISG
PARIS — Lebanon's appeal for urgent aid received short shrift at a conference in Paris on Wednesday, with France, the US, Russia and other countries making assistance conditional on the formation of a new reform-minded government.Speaking at the end of the meeting of the International Support Group (ISG) for Lebanon, host French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said: "The only possible criteria (for aid) is the effectiveness of the government ...
December 12, 2019
Indian police fire blanks in fresh citizenship bill demos
GUWAHATI, India — Indian police fired blanks on Thursday as thousands of protesters ignored a curfew in the north-east of the country, in a fresh day of demonstrations against contentious new citizenship legislation.Officials said 20-30 people have been hurt in the protests in recent days, with vehicles torched and police firing tear gas and charging the crowds with heavy wooden sticks.Five thousand paramilitary forces were deployed in the city of ...
December 12, 2019
Britain votes in snap 'Brexit election'
LONDON — Britain went to the polls on Thursday, with the future of Brexit hanging in the balance, in a snap pre-Christmas election aimed at drawing a line under years of political gridlock and bitter division.More than 4,000 polling venues across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — including a windmill, some pubs and a chip shop -- opened their doors for a poll described as the most important in ...
December 12, 2019
Algeria holds presidential vote fiercely opposed by protesters
ALGIERS — After almost 10 months of political turmoil, Algeria on Thursday held a presidential vote bitterly opposed by a protest movement that sees it as a regime ploy to cling on to power.All 61,000 polling stations around the North African country opened as planned at 8 a.m. (0700 GMT), the official APS news agency reported.Five candidates are in the running, all of them widely rejected as "children of the ...
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