“Ouvrez la route!” demandent des étudiants, des commerçants et des familles pakistanaises bloqués en Afghanistan depuis que le conflit entre les deux pays voisins a conduit à la fermeture de la frontière, il y a près de trois mois.”La plupart des étudiants ne peuvent plus rentrer chez eux, ils ne sont en contact avec leur …
Plus de 6.000 prisonniers ont été libérés dimanche en Birmanie à la faveur d’une amnistie annuelle accordée par la junte pour la fête de l’Indépendance, une semaine après le début de législatives dénoncées comme une mascarade par des observateurs internationaux.L’armée a pris le pouvoir lors d’un coup d’Etat en 2021 qui a déclenché une guerre …
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Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has posted on social media for the first time since a fatal car crash in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends.The 36-year-old British fighter was a passenger in a Lexus SUV that collided with a stationary truck on a busy highway linking Lagos and Ibadan in southwest Nigeria …
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Un millier de manifestants se sont retrouvés dimanche matin devant l’ambassade des Etats-Unis à Madrid pour dénoncer une “agression impérialiste”, après l’enlèvement du président du Venezuela Nicolas Maduro au cours d’une opération militaire américaine.Les participants ont brandi de nombreuses pancartes montrant notamment Donald Trump avalant goulûment un bidon de pétrole aux couleurs du drapeau vénézuélien, une autre clamant “Trump agresseur”, tandis que sur une banderole on pouvait lire “Non à l’agression impérialiste contre le Venezuela”.Plusieurs drapeaux de la formation d’extrême gauche espagnole Podemos ou du Parti communiste espagnol étaient également visibles parmi les drapeaux vénézuéliens agités devant l’ambassade, en plein coeur de Madrid, au lendemain de la capture par les Etats-Unis de Nicolas Maduro et son épouse, après des frappes aériennes sur Caracas et ses environs.M. Maduro est désormais incarcéré dans une prison de New York dans l’attente de sa comparution devant un juge pour “narcoterrorisme” et importation de cocaïne aux Etats-Unis.Donald Trump a annoncé que son pays allait “diriger” la transition au Venezuela et comptait exploiter ses vastes réserves de pétrole.Le Premier ministre espagnol, le socialiste Pedro Sánchez, dont le pays a accueilli le candidat de l’opposition à la présidentielle vénézuélienne de 2024, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, avait condamné samedi “une intervention qui viole le droit international”, jugeant que cette opération “[poussait] la région vers un horizon d’incertitude et de bellicisme”, et avait appelé à une transition “juste et dans le dialogue”.Dimanche, Pedro Sánchez, qui doit compter sur l’appui de son partenaire d’extrême gauche Sumar, a réitéré ses critiques dans une lettre adressée aux militants du Parti socialiste où il évoque “la récente violation du droit international au Venezuela, acte que nous condamnons avec la plus grande fermeté”.Plusieurs centaines de personnes ont aussi manifesté dimanche à la mi-journée devant le consulat des Etats-Unis à Amsterdam, la capitale des Pays-Bas, brandissant des pancartes “Yankee go home” (les Américains rentrez chez vous), “Stop killing for oil” (Arrêtez de tuer pour du pétrole) ou encore “Stop Trumps Fossil Army” (Stop à l’armée des hydrocarbures de Trump), a rapporté l’agence de presse ANP.Ils répondaient à l’appel de plusieurs organisations des mouvances pacifiste et “antifa”.
Un problème technique “sans précédent” touchant les fréquences de l’espace aérien grec a provoqué retards, reports et annulations de vols à tous les aéroports du pays dimanche, où le trafic reprenait progressivement à la mi-journée.L’aviation civile a indiqué dans un communiqué qu’elle oeuvrait avec les autorités compétentes pour rétablir ce “problème technique sans précédent”, survenu dimanche vers 07H00 GMT.A l’aéroport d’Athènes Eleftherios Venizelos, principal aéroport du pays, des files d’attente importantes de passagers se sont formées, tandis que de nombreux vols internationaux et internes ont été reportés ou même annulés, selon un photographe de l’AFP.”Aucun avion n’a atterri ou décollé pendant au moins deux heures” dimanche matin, a-t-on appris auprès du bureau de presse de cet aéroport, où ont transité, 31,6 millions de passagers sur les onze premiers mois de 2025, soit une hausse de 6,6% sur un an, selon les chiffres officiels de l’AIA.Selon la télévision publique grecque Ert, “aucun avion n’a pu atterrir ou décoller dans les aéroports grecs” pendant au moins trois heures dimanche matin et la plupart des avions ayant comme destination les aéroports grecs ont dû être redirigés vers ceux de la Turquie voisine.Selon l’aviation civile, le trafic aérien a commencé à reprendre progressivement vers 11H00 GMT. Seuls “35 vols par heure sont effectués pour l’instant” dans l’ensemble des 39 aéroports du pays, un nombre très inférieur par rapport au trafic régulier en cette période de vacances de fin d’année. Panagiotis Psarros, président de l’Union grecque des contrôleurs, a indiqué à la Ert que vers 09H00 locales (07H00 GMT) “toutes les fréquences ont été perdues” dans l’espace aérien grec, mais qu’en début après-midi “certaines fréquences” fonctionnaient “en toute sécurité” et que le trafic pourrait reprendre.Ce responsable a qualifié ce problème “de très sérieux” et déploré “l’équipement obsolète” dans les aéroports. Il a rappelé qu’un incident similaire avait eu lieu l’année dernière, perturbant le trafic à l’aéroport d’Athènes.Pays très prisé en particulier pour ces îles et ses sites archéologiques, la Grèce ne cesse de battre les records annuels en matière de recettes touristiques et de nombre de visiteurs étrangers ces dernières années, depuis la pandémie de Covid-19.De janvier à la fin septembre, le pays a accueilli 31,6 millions de visiteurs, soit une hausse de 4% par rapport à la même période de 2024, selon les données de la Banque de Grèce publiées fin novembre.
Attacks by Sudan’s army and its paramilitary foes on two towns in the western Darfur region over the past week have killed 114 people, medical sources told AFP Sunday.Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which in October seized the army’s last holdout position in Darfur.The RSF has since pushed west to the Chadian border and east through the vast Kordofan region, where a drone strike on the North Kordofan capital of El-Obeid on Sunday caused a blackout in the key army-controlled city.A medical source reported Sunday that 51 people were killed the day before in drone strikes attributed to the army on the North Darfur town of Al-Zuruq, 180 kilometres (112 miles) north of the RSF-overrun state capital El-Fashir.The strike hit a market and civilian areas, the source said.Al-Zuruq, under RSF control, is home to family members of RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the former deputy of his now rival, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.”Two of the Daglo family were killed, Moussa Saleh Daglo and Awad Moussa Saleh Daglo,” an eyewitness to the burial told AFP.Both the RSF and the army are accused of targeting civilian areas, in what the UN has called a “war of atrocities”.RSF fighters advancing westward towards the border with Chad last week killed another 63 people in and around the town of Kernoi, a medical source in the local hospital told AFP Sunday.”Until Friday, 63 were killed and 57 injured… in attacks launched by the RSF around Kernoi,” they said, speaking on condition of anonymity for their safety.Local sources told AFP that 17 people were still missing.The entire Darfur region is largely inaccessible to reporters and is under a years-long communications blackout, forcing local volunteers and medics to use satellite internet to get news to the world.According to the United Nations, over 7,000 people were displaced in just two days last month from Kernoi and the nearby village of Um Baru.Many are from the Zaghawa group, which has been targeted by the RSF. Members of the group have fought in the current war alongside the army in a coalition known as the Joint Forces.- ‘Attacked by drones’ -Since the war began, tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced. Much of the worst fighting has been in Darfur, reviving memories of mass ethnic atrocities committed in the 2000s by the Janjaweed, the RSF’s predecessor.The war’s fiercest violence is currently unfolding in Kordofan, Sudan’s vast oil-rich southern region that links Darfur to the capital Khartoum, which the army recaptured last year.Drone strikes on North Kordofan capital El-Obeid caused a power outage, the national electricity company said.”El-Obeid power station … was attacked by drones, leading to a fire in the machinery building, which led to a halt in the electricity supply,” the company said.Following its victory in El-Fasher, the RSF has sought to recapture Sudan’s central corridor, tightening its siege with its local allies around several army-held cities.Hundreds of thousands face mass starvation across the region.Last year, the army broke a paramilitary siege on El-Obeid, which the RSF has sought to encircle since.The Joint Forces said last week they had retaken several towns south of El-Obeid, which according to a military source could “open up the road between El-Obeid and Dilling” — one of South Kordofan’s besieged cities.Since mid-December, some 11,000 people have been displaced from North and South Kordofan states, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration.The war has forced more than 11 million people to flee internally and across Sudan’s borders, many of them seeking shelter in underdeveloped areas with a lack of nutrition, medicine and clean water.
Attacks by Sudan’s army and its paramilitary foes on two towns in the western Darfur region over the past week have killed 114 people, medical sources told AFP Sunday.Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which in October seized the army’s last …
South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung arrived in China on Sunday for a four-day visit, eager to boost economic ties with Seoul’s largest trading partner while keeping a lid on potentially explosive issues such as Taiwan.Lee is the first South Korean leader to visit Beijing in six years, and his trip comes less than a week after China carried out massive military drills around Taiwan, the self-ruled island it claims as part of its territory.The exercise, featuring missiles, fighter jets, navy ships and coastguard vessels, drew a chorus of international condemnation that Seoul has notably declined to join.Lee, accompanied by a delegation of business and tech leaders, hopes to expand economic cooperation in meetings with President Xi Jinping and other top officials.And he hopes to possibly harness China’s clout over North Korea to support his bid to improve ties with Pyongyang.”China is a very important cooperative partner in moving toward peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula,” Lee said during a meeting with Korean residents in Beijing, according to Yonhap news agency.Lee added his visit “would serve as a new starting point to fill in the gaps in Korea-China relations, restore them to normal and upgrade them to a new level”.Hours before Lee departed for Beijing, Seoul’s military said the North had fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan — its first test of the year.Seoul has for decades trodden a fine line between China, its top trading partner, and the United States, its chief defence guarantor.But Kang Jun-young, a professor at Seoul’s Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, said Beijing was now seeking to draw South Korea away from Washington’s sphere of influence.”China views South Korea as the weakest link at a time when trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the United States and Japan is strengthening,” he told AFP.Lee has deftly stayed on the sidelines since a nasty spat erupted between Beijing and Tokyo late last year, triggered by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s suggestion that Japan could intervene militarily if China attacks Taiwan.In an interview with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Friday, he said that he “clearly affirms” that “respecting the ‘one-China’ principle and maintaining peace and stability in Northeast Asia, including in the Taiwan Strait, are very important”.- Trade, AI and K-pop -On economic ties, Lee has called for South Korea and China to work towards “more horizontal and mutually beneficial” trade.He is bringing with him a large delegation of executives from some of South Korea’s biggest and best-known firms including Samsung — one of the world’s top memory chip makers which produces crucial components for the booming AI industry.Hyundai Motor Group’s executive chair, Chung Eui-sun, is also part of the delegation alongside figures from the entertainment and gaming industries.A summit with Xi is planned for Monday, followed by trade talks with top officials including Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday, according to top South Korean adviser Wi Sung-lac.Lee will then travel to the financial hub of Shanghai, home to a substantial South Korean business community, where he will attend a startup summit and visit the former headquarters of the Korean government-in-exile during Japanese rule.Xi and Lee last met in November on the sidelines of a regional summit in Gyeongju in South Korea — a meeting Seoul framed at the time as a reset following years of tense relations.The South Korean president plans to pitch a potential role for China in his efforts to rekindle frayed ties with the North, which is heavily dependent on Beijing as a trading partner.Officials also hope the meetings will lead to China easing an unofficial ban on imports of South Korean pop culture, in place for almost a decade.”China’s official position is that there is no such thing as a ban on Korean content, but from our perspective the situation looks somewhat different,” said Wi, the presidential adviser.
Armed gangs have raided a village in a north-central Nigerian state where hundreds of schoolchildren were abducted late last year, killing more than 30 people and kidnapping several others, police said Sunday.Know locally as “bandits”, the gangs invaded Kasuwan Daji village in Kabe district of Niger State and set a market ablaze, before looting shops for …
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