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A firefighting helicopter works the Saddleridge Fire on Saturday in Sylmar, California. -AFP

October 13, 2019

Firefighters curb southern California blazes

LOS ANGELES - Wildfires raging across southern California abated on Saturday with evacuation orders lifted after 100,000 people were forced to flee their homes.A fire that had burned rapidly through the San Fernando Valley in greater Los Angeles was the strongest of several across southern California.By Saturday, it had consumed 8,000 acres about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, fire officials said, adding that the blaze was about 33 ...

Migrants raise their hands as they walk by members of the National Guard during an operation to halt a caravan of migrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Central America, hours after they embarked toward the United States, in Tuzantan, in Chiapas state, Mexico on Saturday. -Reuters

October 13, 2019

Mexico military police halt migrant caravan on its way to US

HUEHUETAN, MEXICO - Mexico's military police on Saturday halted and turned back a caravan of up to 2,000 migrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Central America, hours after they embarked toward the United States, according to Reuters witnesses.The migrants had departed before dawn from Tapachula in the southern state of Chiapas near Guatemala despite an ongoing crackdown on migration on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.The group, including people pushing ...

Demonstrators set up barricades during the 10th day of a protest over a fuel price hike ordered by the government to secure an IMF loan, in the surroundings of the National Assembly in Quito on Saturday. -AFP

October 13, 2019

Ecuador protest talks set for Sunday as capital locks down

QUITO - A first meeting between Ecuador's president and indigenous leaders will take place on Sunday, the United Nations said, after Lenin Moreno ordered a curfew and military control in the capital to try to quell deadly, anti-austerity protests.The rolling demonstrations have left six people dead and nearly 2,100 wounded or detained, according to authorities, with protesters on Saturday targeting a television station and a newspaper as well as setting ...

Rescue personnel work in a flooded area in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Kawagoe city, Saitama prefecture on Sunday. -AFP

October 13, 2019

14 dead, rescues underway after Typhoon Hagibis slams Japan

KAWAGOE, JAPAN - At least 14 people were killed and nine others missing after Typhoon Hagibis slammed into Japan, officials said Sunday, as rescuers scrambled to reach people trapped by catastrophic flooding.The storm's "unprecedented" heavy rain triggered deadly landslides and caused rivers to burst their banks. The destruction forced Rugby World Cup organizers to cancel a third match though the key Japan-Scotland clash will go ahead.By Sunday morning, the significantly ...

Kurds living in Athens hold kurdish flags and placards during a protest near the Turkish embassy in Athens, on Saturday. -AFP

October 13, 2019

Thousands in Europe march against Turkey's Syria offensive

PARIS - Thousands of people, some shouting "Erdogan terrorist", took to the streets of Paris and other European cities on Saturday in protest at the Turkish assault on Kurds in Syria.Protesters marched under the Kurdish green, red and yellow flag waving placards.Organizers said "more than 20,000 people" took part in the demonstration in Paris after Ankara stepped up its assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria on Saturday, defying ...

People attend a memorial service for the victims of the 2002 Bali bombings to mark the 17th anniversary of the attacks, at the Bali Bombing Memorial (top R) in Kuta near Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Saturday. — AFP

October 12, 2019

Tears, grief mark 17th anniversary of Indonesia's Bali bombings

DENPASAR, Indonesia —Hundreds of mourners and survivors on Saturday commemorated the 17th anniversary of the Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people on the Indonesian resort island, as militant attacks continue to plague the country.Grieving families, attack survivors and representatives from several embassies laid flowers and lit incense sticks at a memorial in the popular tourist hub of Kuta, where radicals detonated bombs in 2002.Some victims' family members broke ...

Syrian patient Fatima Al-Issa who was hit by shrapnel during Turkish bombardment of Ras Al-Ain, receives treatment at a hospital in the town of Tal Tamr in the countryside of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, on Saturday. — AFP

October 12, 2019

Germany bans weapons sales to Turkey over Syria offensive

BERLIN — Germany said Saturday it is halting sales of weapons to Turkey over its widely criticized operation against Kurdish militias in northern Syria.Germany, along with many of its allies, has condemned the offensive that Ankara says is targeting the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia — a force that has played a key role against the Daesh (so-called IS) group in Syria.It joins the fellow NATO members the Netherlands ...

This image courtesy of Planet Labs Inc., shows smoke from the Saddleridge Fire about 20 miles (32kms) north of downtown Los Angeles on Friday. Wind-driven wildfires forced the evacuation of about 100,000 people in southern California and destroyed dozens of structures and homes as authorities warned it could take days to extinguish the flames. By Friday evening, the strongest blaze, dubbed the Saddleridge Fire, had consumed 7,542 acres (3,052 hectares) in areas of the San Fernando Valley, fire officials said. — AFP

October 12, 2019

Southern California wildfires burning unchecked

LOS ANGELES — Gusting winds fueling a fast-moving wildfire in southern California showed no signs of abating Saturday as a blaze that forced the evacuation of some 100,000 people kept burning out of control.A red flag warning of critical fire danger — strong winds and very low humidity — has been extended into the weekend, the National Weather Service said.Firefighters said people have taken evacuation orders seriously in the so-called ...

Displaced Syrians, who fled their homes in the border town of Ras al-Ain, receive humanitarian aid on Saturday, in the town of Tal Tamr in the countryside of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province. Ras Al-Ain would be the first town to fall to Ankara's forces since the launch of its cross-border offensive earlier in the week. Both it and Tal Abyad further west have been major goals of the invasion as Turkey seeks to impose its control over the area between them which although Kurdish-controlled, is mainly ethnic Arab. — AFP

October 12, 2019

Turkish offensive stretches Syria hospital to limit

TAL TAMR, Syria — Writhing in pain on a hospital stretcher, Fatima Al-Issa bit on a purple handkerchief as a medical team tended to wounds she suffered in Turkish bombardment of northeast Syria.They rubbed ointment into burns around her swollen left eye after the 45-year-old was hit by shrapnel from Turkish shelling near her home in the border region of Ras Al-Ain.Outside the medical facility in Tal Tamr, a small ...

Russian space agency rescue team members and United Arab Emirates specialists carry United Arab Emirates astronaut Hazzaa Ali Al-Mansoori shortly after the landing. –Courtesy photo

October 12, 2019

Emirati astronaut returns home to hero's welcome

ABU DHABI - An Emirati astronaut who became the first Arab to reach the International Space Station received a hero's welcome home on Saturday.Hazzaa Al-Mansoori of the United Arab Emirates was greeted by Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan at the capital's airport.Men, women and children lined a red carpet to welcome back Mansoori and his colleague Sultan Al-Neyadi -- who underwent the same training and served as ...

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