Month September 2023

South African poultry producer culls 410,000 chickens amid avian flu outbreak, fears of shortages loom

South Africa’s RCL Foods said on Thursday its poultry unit Rainbow has culled 410,000 chickens due to the country’s worst outbreak of avian flu, heightening fears of chicken meat and egg shortages. The outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI),… Continue Reading →

Car bomb kills 6, wounds 14 at Somali meat market

A car bombing struck a meat market in central Somalia on Thursday, killing six people and wounding 14, local officials said, the third attack of the day in the volatile East African country. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the… Continue Reading →

Food delivery driver’s personal grudge cited as motive in shooting outside US Embassy in Beirut

Lebanese police said Thursday that a food delivery driver who opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut last week allegedly did so because of a personal grudge against the guards at the compound. The police said they had arrested… Continue Reading →

Swedish PM looks to military for help amid gang violence spike

Sweden’s prime minister on Thursday said that he’s summoned the head of the military to discuss how the armed forces can help police deal with an unprecedented crime wave that has shocked the country with almost daily shootings and bombings…. Continue Reading →

Bermuda auditing ‘very sophisticated’ cyberattack against government

Bermuda’s premier said Thursday that the government is slowly restoring operations after being hit by a “very sophisticated” cyberattack a week ago. An in-depth forensic audit is underway to determine how the attack occurred, and so far, experts have not… Continue Reading →

French police rescue 6 migrant women trapped in truck, sparking concerns amidst ongoing migration challenges

Six female migrants trapped inside a refrigerated food truck were rescued by French police after one of the women made a distress call to a reporter, the BBC and French authorities said Thursday. The women — four Vietnamese and two… Continue Reading →

Scuffle between Lebanese Armenians, riot police, erupts outside Azerbaijani Embassy

Hundreds of Lebanese Armenians scuffled with riot police on Thursday outside the Azerbaijan Embassy in northern Beirut during a protest against the Azerbaijani military offensive that recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh from the enclave’s separatist Armenian authorities. Protesters waved flags of Armenia and… Continue Reading →

Deadly gunman attacks hospital and apartment in Rotterdam, 2 killed

Two people were killed by a lone gunman who opened fire and started fires in a hospital and an apartment in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday, the city’s police chief said. The shooter, a 32-year-old student from Rotterdam,… Continue Reading →

Former Belarusian operative acquitted in Swiss court over disappearances of Lukashenko opponents in 1990s

A court in northern Switzerland on Thursday acquitted a former security Belarusian operative over the enforced disappearances of three of President Aleksander Lukashenko’s political opponents in the late 1990s, said an advocacy group that spearheaded the case. Judges in the… Continue Reading →

Iran’s Defense Ministry car battery factory hit by second fire in 1 week

A fire broke out Thursday at a car battery factory owned by Iran’s Defense Ministry for the second time in less than a week, state media reported. No one was injured in the blaze, which erupted in an area where… Continue Reading →

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