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Topic: Agence-France-Presse

'No open wound': 21 teenagers found dead at S. African tavern

'No open wound': 21 teenagers found dead at S. African tavern

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 27 11:52 AM

Many of the victims are thought to have been students celebrating the end of their high-school exams on Saturday night, officials said. Read more »

Google 'experiment' blocks Australian news from local searches

Google 'experiment' blocks Australian news from local searches

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 04:44 PM

The Australian Financial Review reported that Google was blocking several major commercial news outlets including its masthead, News Corp papers and Guardian Australia from a small number of search users.   Read more »

Pirate attacks surge in 2020: watchdog

Pirate attacks surge in 2020: watchdog

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 13 09:47 PM

Pirate attacks on ships worldwide jumped 20 percent last year driven by a record spate of kidnappings off West Africa, a maritime watchdog said Wednesday, urging increased sea patrols.  Read more »

3 arrested in India for axing endangered dolphin to death

3 arrested in India for axing endangered dolphin to death

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 09 10:28 PM

According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are only between 1,200 and 1,800 of the endangered species left in the world.   Read more »

Naked fugitive found in croc-infested northern Australia waters

Naked fugitive found in croc-infested northern Australia waters

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 06 05:48 PM

A naked fugitive hiding out in trees above crocodile-infested waters has been discovered by a pair of fishermen, after spending days surviving on snails in swampy mangroves in Australia's far north.   Read more »

Mystery monolith makes appearance in Canada

Mystery monolith makes appearance in Canada

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 02 07:28 PM

A mysterious monolith — similar to ones that have appeared briefly in the Utah desert, on a heath in the Netherlands, in Warsaw and on a Romanian hilltop — has now popped up in Toronto. Read more »

Smugglers jailed as China's 'biggest ever' illegal ivory network smashed

Smugglers jailed as China's 'biggest ever' illegal ivory network smashed

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 01 07:45 AM

Demand for ivory carvings and jewelry among China's expanding middle class led to poaching crisis across Africa, and although a 2018 ban on ivory trade in China has improved the situation, a vast black market still exists.   Read more »

US military school West Point rocked by major cheating scandal

US military school West Point rocked by major cheating scandal

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 23 03:18 PM

America's prestigious military school West Point has been shaken by its biggest cheating scandal in decades, with dozens of cadets accused of breaking the academy's honor code in the spring.   Read more »

Japan's 'Twitter killer' drops death sentence appeal

Japan's 'Twitter killer' drops death sentence appeal

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 23 02:07 PM

A Japanese man dubbed the "Twitter killer" lured people who posted online comments about suicidal thoughts to his home, where he killed and butchered his young victims. All but one of those murdered were women, and they ranged in age from 15 to 26.   Read more »

China to start opening vaccination program to general public

China to start opening vaccination program to general public

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 18 01:03 PM

China has 5 coronavirus vaccines in the final stages of development -- but none has received official approval from authorities and the results of late-stage trials have yet to be published.   Read more »

Peru suspends clinical trials of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

Peru suspends clinical trials of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 12 09:15 PM

Peru has temporarily suspended clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine made by Chinese drug giant Sinopharm after detecting neurological problems in one of its test volunteers. Read more »

S. Africa's chief justice slammed for prayer against 'satanic' vaccine

S. Africa's chief justice slammed for prayer against 'satanic' vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 12 10:09 AM

South Africa's chief justice on Friday vehemently defended a prayer he made against "satanic" COVID-19 vaccines, seeming to refer to a conspiracy theory that they could "infuse 666" into people's DNA Read more »

Italy's 1982 World Cup hero Paolo Rossi dead at 64

Italy's 1982 World Cup hero Paolo Rossi dead at 64

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 10 02:26 PM

Paolo Rossi, a hero of Italian football who fired the Azzurri to victory in the 1982 World Cup, has died aged 64, prompting an outpouring of grief and tributes. Read more »

More Thai protest leaders charged with royal defamation

More Thai protest leaders charged with royal defamation

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 08 09:28 PM

Thailand has strict lese majeste laws, enshrined in section 112 of the penal code, shielding the ultra-wealthy King Maha Vajiralongkorn from criticism.   Read more »

Nobel laureates receive prizes at home amid COVID-19 pandemic

Nobel laureates receive prizes at home amid COVID-19 pandemic

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 08 09:24 PM

Adjusting to a world where travel is hampered by the pandemic, this year's Nobel laureates will receive their prizes at home this week following the cancellation of the traditional Stockholm and Oslo ceremonies. Read more »

Pfizer to deliver first vaccine doses to Canada this month: Trudeau

Pfizer to deliver first vaccine doses to Canada this month: Trudeau

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 08 01:18 PM

Pfizer and BioNTech will deliver the first doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to Canada this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday, with inoculations to start as early as next week. Read more »

Coronavirus cases worldwide top 65 million, says Agence tally

Coronavirus cases worldwide top 65 million, says Agence tally

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 04 08:31 PM

More than 65 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been detected worldwide, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 0750 GMT on Friday. Read more »

Pandemics, climate change 'intensify' global health threats

Pandemics, climate change 'intensify' global health threats

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 03 01:25 PM

From small island states to urbanized powerhouses, every country on Earth faces "multiplying and intensifying" threats to human health as climate change renders future pandemics and system collapses ever more likely, a major study has concluded. Read more »

'Don't leave trash in the desert': Utah monolith removal explained

'Don't leave trash in the desert': Utah monolith removal explained

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 02 09:08 PM

Images emerged Tuesday of 4 men working in the dead of night to remove the strange, triangular pillar that has garnered global attention from its remote resting place in the western United States desert.   Read more »

More than 1.3-million COVID-19 deaths worldwide: Agence tally

More than 1.3-million COVID-19 deaths worldwide: Agence tally

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 15 03:28 AM

New cases and deaths are accelerating again as a second wave of infections strikes Europe and the United States.  Read more »

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