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French President Emmanuel Macron faced widespread frustration and anger from residents of Mayotte during his visit to the Indian Ocean archipelago, which is still reeling from the damage of the strongest cyclone to hit the region in nearly a century. On Friday morning, Macron visited a neighbourhood in Tsingoni, on Mayotte’s main island, where people […]
Canadian anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson won’t be extradited to face Japanese charges | CBC News
Denmark has rejected a Japanese request to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson over criminal charges dating back more than a decade, a Danish lawyer representing Watson said on Tuesday. Watson, 74, a U.S. Canadian and founder of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group and of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, has now been released from detention in […]
The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido could be “several hundred” and may be close to 1,000, the island’s top government official told the local broadcaster Sunday. Mayotte Prefect François-Xavier Bieuville told TV station Mayotte la 1ere, “I think there are some several hundred dead, maybe we’ll get close to […]
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Wednesday he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity in the alleged persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority. Myanmar’s ruling junta said in a statement to Reuters that the country was not a member […]
Arthur Frommer, whose guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel and encouraged budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95. Frommer died from complications of pneumonia, his daughter Pauline Frommer said Monday. “My father opened up the world to so many people,” she said. “He believed deeply that travel could be an enlightening activity and one that did […]
A concrete roof above the entrance of a railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad collapsed Friday, killing at least 14 people with more feared buried under the rubble, officials said. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said that three people were rescued and hospitalized with serious injuries, and that the death toll could rise further. […]