TWO planes operated by a Delta subsidiary collided Wednesday on the runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport, the local port authority and the airline said. The incident involving two Endeavor Air jets occurred at 9:58 pm (0158 GMT on Thursday) as one was landing and the other about to take off, according to a statement from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. One person was taken to hospital after suffering “non-life threatening injuries,” it added. Delta reported one minor injury to a flight attendant. Images shared by US media, which AFP was unable to immediately verify, showed…
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CENTRAL African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera on Thursday officially submitted his candidacy for elections later this year that he is tipped to win. His file was handed over at the headquarters of the National Election Authority (ANE) in the capital, Bangui, by the secretary general of his ruling United Hearts Movement, an AFP reporter said. Speaking to reporters, Touadera said, “The people absolutely wanted reassurance that my candidacy file would be submitted today. “We have fulfilled a constitutional requirement within the framework of democracy in our country,” he added. Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera speaks during the General Debate…
TWO people were killed when officers opened fire on a group of people attempting to “storm” a police station in Morocco on Wednesday, state media said, as protests sometimes violent roil the North African nation. Demonstrations have convulsed Morocco for several days, urged on by the GenZ 212 group, a recently formed collective based on the Discord web platform whose organisers remain unknown. Morocco’s interior ministry said on Wednesday that more than 400 people had been arrested and nearly 300 injured during the rallies, which are demanding reforms to the public health and education sectors. A group of people tried…
CHAMPIONS League holders Paris Saint-Germain stunned Barcelona with a 90th-minute Goncalo Ramos winner to claim a 2-1 away victory in the league stage on Wednesday. Ferran Torres sent hosts Barcelona ahead with a cool finish but Senny Mayulu fired a depleted PSG level before half-time. It was an even and thoroughly entertaining bout between two of the competition’s favourites at the Olympic stadium which was eventually settled by Ramos’ late strike, as PSG exploited Barca’s high defensive line. Hansi Flick selected Torres over veteran striker Robert Lewandowski and also benched Ronald Araujo for Eric Garcia, after the Uruguayan’s red card…
ISRAEL’s relentless destruction of Gaza and targeting of the Palestinian civilian population show no sign of abating, with at least 65 people killed in attacks since dawn, as Hamas’s acceptance of a United States ceasefire plan to end the genocidal two-year war remains uncertain. Two missiles struck al-Falah School on Wednesday, which had been converted into a shelter for hundreds of displaced people in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza City, where Israel has expanded its ground invasion alongside heavy aerial bombardment. As Palestinian Civil Defence crews rushed to the scene, another attack critically injured many of them, including Munther…
PRINCE Harry, the Duke of Sussex, made a surprise remote appearance on Wednesday at London’s High Court as part of his ongoing legal war with sections of the British media, accusing them of widespread privacy violations. The preliminary hearing, which was accessible through a remote link, revealed one user logged in under the name “Prince Harry.” While the prince did not appear in person, his presence underscored the seriousness of the case, which could proceed to a full trial lasting up to nine weeks next year. Harry is one of seven high-profile claimants taking legal action against Associated Newspapers, the…
SOUTH African opposition politician Julius Malema has been found guilty of illegal possession of a gun and firing it in public, offences which carry a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. In 2018, a video emerged showing the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader using a semi-automatic rifle to fire several shots in the air during his party’s fifth anniversary celebrations held in the country’s Eastern Cape province. He was charged alongside his former bodyguard Adriaan Snyman, who was acquitted. Malema was convicted of hate speech less than two months ago and often lashes out at the white minority in…
AT least 30 people have died and more than 200 others been injured after scaffolding collapsed at a church in Ethiopia. Thousands of worshippers were gathered at the Arerti Mariam church early in the morning when the structure fell, local police inspector Ahmed Gebeyehu told BBC Amharic. The crowd had visited the church, in the central Minjar Sheknora area about 70 km (45 miles) from the capital Addis Ababa, as part of the annual Orthodox Christian celebration of St Mary. Mr Ahmed said the death toll might increase, adding that those confirmed deceased were aged between 25 and 80. Local…
LIVERPOOL slumped to a shock 1-0 Champions League defeat to Galatasaray on Tuesday as Victor Osimhen’s 16th-minute penalty handed the Turkish giants victory. The English champions were punished for the latest in a series of poor performances in Istanbul as they suffered back-to-back defeats for only the second time under Arne Slot. Liverpool were beaten for the first time this season at Crystal Palace on Saturday, but a series of late winners have masked an unconvincing start since a summer transformation of the squad that strolled to the Premier League title last season. Slot responded by leaving Mohamed Salah and…
UNITED States President Donald Trump says Hamas has “three or four days” to respond to his Gaza ceasefire proposal, telling reporters that Israeli and Arab leaders had already accepted the plan. “Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it’s not, it’s going to be a very sad end,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday. Asked if there was room for negotiations on the proposal, he replied: “Not much.” The US president also thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with Trump on Monday in Washington, DC, “for agreeing to the plan”. Trump’s…
AT least 26 people have been killed and almost 150 injured in a powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck off the coast of the central Philippine island province of Cebu, collapsing buildings, sending people running onto the streets, and knocking power out in some areas. The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at 9:59pm local time on Tuesday (13:59 GMT) off Cebu Island’s northern tip near Bogo, a city of some 90,000 residents, and was followed by four earthquakes of magnitude 5 or higher in the area after the first tremor. The Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and…
SOUTH Africa’s ambassador to France, formerly a long-serving cabinet minister, was found dead on Tuesday outside a Paris hotel after the window of his room in the high-rise building was forced open, prosecutors said. Nkosinathi Emmanuel Nathi Mthethwa, 58, usually known as Nathi Mthethwa, had “reserved a room on the 22nd floor whose secured window had been forced open”, the office of the Paris prosecutor told AFP. The body of Mthethwa, a close associate of former South African president Jacob Zuma, was found “directly by the hotel”, it added. A source close to the case, who asked not to be…
A MILITARY court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced ex-president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for “treason”. Kabila, 54, who was not present at the trial in the capital nor represented, was found guilty of complicity with the M23 anti-government armed group, which has seized swathes of the resource-rich Congolese east with Rwandan help. He left the vast central African country in 2023 and briefly reappeared in Goma in the volatile east in May, causing disquiet in Kinshasa. Observers say the death sentence aims to remove the possibility he could unite the opposition within the country,…
MANCHESTER United legend Wayne Rooney has launched a scathing attack on his former club, declaring that the “soul has gone” from Old Trafford and expressing zero confidence in manager Ruben Amorim’s ability to revive the Red Devils. Speaking on The Wayne Rooney Show, a BBC podcast, United’s all-time record goalscorer said he attends games “expecting them to lose” and believes the team has sunk into an identity crisis. “Manchester United is broken. I don’t see anything giving me confidence right now,” Rooney lamented. “There needs to be big changes; manager, players, whatever it takes. Some players don’t deserve to wear…
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apologised to Qatar for the killing of a Qatari citizen during an unprecedented Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha this month, which drew global condemnation. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani received the apology on Monday in a joint call from United States President Donald Trump and Netanyahu during their meeting at the White House. “As a first step, Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep regret that Israel’s missile strike against Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman,” a White House statement said. “He further expressed…
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a law to pull Russia out of a European anti-torture convention, as Moscow extricates itself from Western bodies it was kicked out of or quit over its offensive on Ukraine. Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe, an international human-rights monitor, in March 2022, though it had technically remained a party to its European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. The landmark agreement aims to strengthen the rights of persons deprived of their liberty and empowers monitors to visit prisons and detention centres. On Monday, Putin signed a law denouncing the convention. Explanatory…
MADAGASCAR’s president, Andry Rajoelina, has dissolved his government in response to mass demonstrations over power and water shortages that turned deadly, with the United Nations reporting that at least 22 people have been killed and more than 100 others were injured. The protests, which began last week and continued into Monday, were led largely by young people, angry over deteriorating living conditions in the capital, Antananarivo. Experts say they represent the most serious challenge to Rajoelina’s authority since his re-election in 2023, and the largest wave of unrest the island nation has seen in years. Crowds gathered at Antananarivo’s main…
GABRIEL scored a 96th-minute winner as Arsenal came from behind to beat Newcastle United in the Premier League at St James’ Park. The defender got his head on the end of Martin Odegaard’s corner to send manager Mikel Arteta and his staff wild on the touchline. Mikel Merino’s late glancing header off the post cancelled out Nick Woltemade’s Newcastle opener in a tempestuous game. The Gunners took all three points to close the gap on league leaders Liverpool to two points and leave Newcastle floored. Newcastle were on course for victory after the towering Woltemade easily rose above Gabriel to…
AT least 40 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, including at least 10 displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp and 15 in Gaza City. Israeli forces are destroying “infrastructure, residential houses, buildings, neighbourhoods, which is making it difficult for medical teams to reach injured people and those trapped under the rubble”, according to our team on the ground. Two-and-a-half-month-old Eid Mahmoud Abu Jamma has died of malnutrition and lack of treatment in Khan Younis. Meanwhile, the Israeli army shelled al-Helou Hospital in Gaza City, hitting the facility with two artillery rounds, according to medical sources cited…
RUSSIAN Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has warned NATO and the European Union that “any aggression against my country will be met with a decisive response”. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Saturday, Lavrov insisted that Moscow had no plans to attack the West, but that it was prepared to act if provoked. His comments came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed Russia for recent drone and plane incursions in Europe. “Russia is testing their ability to defend themselves and trying to influence societies so people begin to ask: ‘If we can’t protect…