Flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rain in Brazil claimed at least 36 lives on Carnival weekend in southeast Sao Paulo state, authorities said Sunday. TV and social media footage from the town of Sao Sebastiao showed entire neighborhoods under water, debris from hillside houses swept away by oozing earth, flooded highways and cars destroyed by fallen trees, among other damage. At least 35 people died in Sao Sebastiao, the state government said. A girl was also killed in the town of Ubatuba, news reports said. “Unfortunately, we are going to have many more deaths,” the state civil defense chief,…
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A shark killed a 59-year-old Australian tourist on Sunday near a crowded beach in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, authorities said. The man was swimming close to a pontoon around 150 metres (500 feet) from the beach in the capital Noumea when the shark attacked, biting him several times, they said. Two people sailing their boat nearby rushed him back to the beach, where emergency services tried to save him. The man had major bite wounds in his leg and both arms, local prosecutor Yves Dupas told AFP. He died at the scene despite receiving cardiac massage. Many…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey on Sunday to show support to the earthquake-hit country and NATO ally which has had tumultuous ties with Washington. The post Blinken arrives in Turkey to show US support after quake appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
North Korea said Sunday it had test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile as a warning to Washington and Seoul, saying the successful “surprise” drill demonstrated Pyongyang’s capacity to launch a “fatal nuclear counterattack”. In response, the US and South Korea staged joint air drills featuring a strategic bomber and stealth fighter jets, Seoul said. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the “sudden launching drill” at 8:00 am Saturday (2300 GMT Friday) and a Hwasong-15 missile — a weapon first tested by the North in 2017 — was fired from Pyongyang airport that afternoon, the official KCNA reported. South Korea’s military…
Turkey was already battling runaway inflation and relying on rich allies for funding to keep its economy afloat when a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands, razed entire cities and left millions needing urgent help. Now, it must pour billions of dollars into rebuilding 11 southeastern provinces flattened by the February 6 tremor — the worst disaster of its post-Ottoman history. That money will have to come on top of the billions of dollars in election promises that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made in the run-up to crucial polls still tentatively planned for May 14. All this cash could…
Six people were killed Friday in a shooting rampage in a rural area of the southern US state of Mississippi, local media reported. Police said a man who is now in custody shot a person at a store in the small town of Arkabutla, and then went to a nearby house and killed a woman, according to media in nearby Memphis, Tennessee. The man then drove his car to another home, believed to be his residence, where he killed two more, according to local law enforcement officials cited by CBS-affiliate WREG. He was then pursued by police to a second…
A first group of more than 600 Ukrainian soldiers have finished a US training course involving larger-scale maneuvers that could aid Kyiv’s forces in upcoming offensive operations, the Pentagon said Friday. The post First Ukraine troops complete expanded US training: Pentagon appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
Lawyers for five officers said they pleaded “not guilty” Friday to charges they murdered Tyre Nichols, a young Black man who died after a police beating last month in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee. Videos of the incident showed the five officers, who are all Black, repeatedly kicking and punching Nichols during a traffic stop close to his home on January 7, three days before he died in hospital. Attorneys representing the defendants, all of whom were fired by the Memphis Police Department, appeared in a brief initial plea hearing for an explosive trial that has drawn national attention…
Eighteen migrants have been found dead in an abandoned truck, the interior ministry said on Friday, as the Balkan nation struggles with an increase in illicit border crossings. The vehicle “was illegally transporting around 40 migrants hidden under some wood”, the ministry said. “Eighteen of them have died.” After locals alerted the police, the truck was located near the village of Lokorsko, 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. Some of the migrants still alive in the truck were taken to hospital. A search was underway for human traffickers believed to have driven the truck and fled, authorities…
French investigators raided the homes of four senior managers at consultancy McKinsey in late January, over suspicions the firm illegally aided President Emmanuel Macron’s election campaigns, a source close to the case told AFP Friday. First reported by daily Le Parisien, the searches are part of two probes into allegations of failure to keep proper campaign accounts and favouritism opened by financial prosecutors in November. They had already searched McKinsey offices and others belonging to Macron’s Renaissance party in December. The financial prosecutor’s office declined to confirm the January 31 raids when contacted by AFP. Investigative outfit Mediapart has reported…