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Jakarta, Mar 8 (EFE).- Rescuers continued looking for 43 people missing after a rain-triggered landslide hit an Indonesian island and killed at least 12 earlier this week, the disaster management agency said. The agency (BNPB) said the search operation focused on the parts of the Genteng village after the landslide...
Bangkok, Mar 8 (EFE).- Two Thai women, accused of royal defamation and who withdrew their bail to return to prison, were marking 50 days Wednesday since they began a hunger strike demanding a justice system reform in Thailand, where activists calling for change are routinely imprisoned. Orawan Phuphong, 23, and...
Tbilisi, Mar 8 (EFE).- At least 66 demonstrators have been detained in Georgia after protests broke out following the approval of a controversial draft law on individuals and organizations that get over a fifth of their funding from abroad, the country’s ministry of internal affairs reported on Wednesday. The protests...
Berlin, Mar 8 (EFE).- The German government on Wednesday warned against jumping to conclusions after new media reports suggested a pro-Ukrainian group may have carried out an act of sabotage against the Nord Stream gas pipeline last year. “I’m following this information with great interest,” Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister,...
Matamoros, Mexico, Mar 7 (EFE).- The bodies of two Americans found dead after a violent kidnapping in the Mexican city of Matamoros were taken to a forensics facility in the city on Tuesday afternoon for autopsy. The possible causes of death of the two US citizens have not yet been...
Seoul, Mar 8 (EFE).- The South Korean president’s state visit to Washington next month will mark a «historic milestone» for the alliance between the two countries, his presidential office said on Wednesday. Yoon Suk-yeol’s first state visit by a South Korean leader in 12 years, during which he will have...
Brussels, Mar 7 (EFE).- The European Union on Tuesday agreed on a package of sanctions against nine people and three organizations including Taliban ministers and high-ranking members of the Russian armed forces for sexual violence and large-scale abuse of women’s rights. This is the first time that the EU has...
Dhaka, March 7 (EFE) – At least 15 people died and 39 others were injured in an explosion at a commercial building in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka on Tuesday, officials said. “We have received 15 bodies so far. They included the bodies of two women. They were all brought...
By Jesus Centeno Beijing, Mar 7 (EFE).- China denied Tuesday having sold arms to Russia, said its close relationship with Moscow is not a threat to other countries and panned the United States during the first public press appearance of new Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Qin, who took office in...
Bangkok, Mar 7 (EFE).- A Thai court sentenced a man Tuesday accused of parodying King Vajiralongkorn in a calendar with veiled references to the monarch, allegedly likening him to a duck, to two years in prison for royal defamation, a group of Thai lawyers reported. The duck, one of the...
Baghdad, Mar 7 (EFE).- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in Baghdad on Tuesday on a previously unannounced trip ahead of the 20th anniversary of the United States-led invasion of the Middle East country. “Wheels down in Baghdad. I’m here to reaffirm the US-Iraq strategic partnership as we move toward a...
Manila (EFE).- It is expected that the oil spill from a sunken tanker that has already affected dozens of coastal villages in the Philippines will take more than a month to contain, the country’s coast guard said Tuesday. The MT Princess Empress sunk a week ago in rough seas off...
