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Ugandan diplomat Olara Otunnu, one of eight candidates seeking to succeed Antonio Guterres as UN secretary-general next year, on Wednesday called for continued reform of the world body and the restoration of its moral authority. Otunnu, a former UN under-secretary-general who served as a special representative for children and armed conflict, invoked St. Francis of Assisi as he spoke of the need…
France saw more than 7,300 excess deaths during heat waves so far this year, health authorities said Wednesday, as the country has also endured a record number of hot days since mid-June, according to an Agence France-Presse analysis. France has been hit by three summer heat waves in quick succession: a 14-day spell in June, 16 days in July and another lasting 22 days that began in late July and…
Ecuador's intelligence chief and five US citizens died when a tourist helicopter crashed in central Kenya on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board, officials said. The accident happened Wednesday morning in Samburu County, north of the capital Nairobi, according to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. The aircraft had departed from the Loisaba wildlife reserve. Images shared by the Kenya Red…
After more than two years of ordering on Israel's enemies across the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing a tough reelection fight, is zeroing in on another perceived villain -- Turkey. On Tuesday, Warplanes bombed a base in northern Syria a short drive from the Turkish border. Netanyahu said Turkey was looking to establish a military presence there and that, after after it…
LONDON (AFP) -- Six years after stepping down as working royals, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are moving back to the United Kingdom within weeks, British press reported late Wednesday. In a surprise move, Harry, the youngest son of King Charles III, and his wife Meghan, "plan to leave the United States by the end of the month to settle in a private, non-royal residence, which is said to be…
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un later this year, while noting that Pyongyang has 57 "very powerful" nuclear weapons, marking the first time he has cited a specific figure for the recalcitrant regime's nuclear arsenal. Trump made the remarks during a press availability at the White House, a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that he…
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) -- The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said its inspectors had found several tons of nuclear material in Syria, at a site which the authorities said they reported to the agency last month. Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, praised Damascus' "courageous decision" to report the undisclosed site, which dates to the Assad-era, and said the…
An Israeli airstrike killed at least six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, health officials said, a day after Donald Trump's envoy Jared Kushner ended a trip to the region that failed to push forward the US president's plan to end the war in Gaza. Israel's military said it had carried out an airstrike on Hamas commanders and several other militants. It said one of those targeted had taken…
GENEVA (AFP) -- The Ebola outbreak in Congo is moving faster than any previous epidemic of the disease and risks spreading to more countries, the head of the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. "We must be frank: the epidemic is far from being under control," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an emergency meeting on the outbreak. "It had a big head start, and we are still…
The US imposed sanctions Tuesday on the International Criminal Court's president and a senior trial lawyer at the court, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. The move is the latest escalation in the Trump administration's campaign against The Hague-based court, which was established in 2002 by the international community to prosecute war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. The US is…
