Two sailors have been killed in separate incidents in the treacherous Sydney to Hobart bluewater classic, officials said Friday, as a string of yachts limped out of a race fleet battered by powerful winds.Both crew members — a 55-year-old man on Flying Fish Arctos and a 65-year-old man on Bowline — were struck on the …
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South Korea’s acting president faced an impeachment vote on Friday, as the country struggled to shake off political turmoil sparked by his predecessor’s martial law declaration that shocked the world.Acting president Han Duck-soo took over from President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was suspended following a parliamentary vote over his move to impose martial law on …
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Israeli air strikes pummelled Sanaa’s international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday, with Huthi rebel media reporting six deaths.World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on social media he was at the airport during the strike, adding that “one of our plane’s crew members was injured”.The Israeli military did not immediately respond …
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Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday ruled out negotiations with US President-elect Donald Trump over control of the Panama Canal, denying that China was interfering in its operation.Mulino also rejected the possibility of reducing tolls for US vessels in response to Trump’s threat to demand control of the vital waterway connecting the Atlantic and …
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A former Peruvian congressional official on Thursday denied having set up a prostitution ring in the legislature providing sexual favors to lawmakers in return for votes.Jorge Torres, the former head of the congressional legal and constitutional office, rejected the accusations during questioning by a parliamentary oversight committee investigating the scandal in parallel with the public prosecutor’s …
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Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose economic reforms made his country a global powerhouse, has died at the age of 92.Singh, who held office from 2004 to 2014, was credited with having overseen an economic boom in Asia’s fourth-largest economy in his first term, although slowing growth in later years marred his second …
Membership of Britain’s upstart anti-immigration Reform UK party has overtaken that of the centre-right Conservative Party for the first time, the party said Thursday, as Tories disputed the numbers.Party leader and Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage hailed the figure as a “historic moment”.Immigration was a major issue at the ballot box at the UK’s July general …
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A bus carrying several foreign tourists went off the road and ended up partially submerged in a lake near the Raftsundet strait that separates the Lofoten archipelago from the Norwegian mainland, killing three people and injuring four, police said Thursday. “Many of the passengers on the bus were foreign nationals,” police said, adding that 58 people were …
Finnish authorities said Thursday they were investigating an oil tanker that sailed from a Russian port over the suspected “sabotage” of a power cable linking Finland and Estonia.On Christmas Day, the Estlink 2 submarine cable that carries electricity from Finland to Estonia was disconnected from the grid, just over a month after two telecommunications cables …
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Azerbaijani and US officials believe a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the deadly crash of an Azerbaijani passenger jet, media reports and a US official said Thursday, as the Kremlin cautioned against “hypotheses” over the disaster.The Azerbaijan Airlines jet crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau, an oil and gas hub, on Wednesday after going off …
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