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Port Moresby (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) (AFP) - L'estimation de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée selon laquelle 2.000 personnes ont été ensevelies par un glissement de terrain dans les hautes terres a été remise en question mercredi, l'imagerie satellite, les experts en catastrophes et les responsables locaux suggérant un bilan bien plus bas. Alors que le Premier ministre James Marape a déclaré au Parlement une "estimation initiale" selon laquelle "plus de 2.000 personnes auraient péri", des questions ont été posées en privé sur la manière dont ce chiffre a été atteint. Jusqu'à présent, six corps...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The number of people thought to have died in the fast-moving wildfire that tore through part of Hawaii last month dropped Friday, as authorities revised their figures. The state's governor, Josh Green, said scientists sorting through remains now believed that 97 people had perished in Lahaina, down from a previous official toll of 115. "That number dropped a little bit because the Department of Defense and all of their physical anthropologists were able to help us discern better who was in cars or in houses," Green said in a Facebook video. "So thank God, fewer people have ...
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Sloviansk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia shelled a block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk on Friday, killing eight people, including a toddler who was pulled out of the rubble but died in an ambulance on the way to hospital, authorities said. The strike on the quiet neighbourhood came as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that will make it easier to mobilise citizens into the army, and block them from fleeing the country if drafted. Russia also said it was pushing further into the hotspot of Bakhmut, 45 kilometres (27 miles) southeast of Sloviansk, which is one of the...
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Washington (AFP) - The death toll from a fierce winter storm that gripped much of the United States over Christmas rose to at least 61 on Thursday, officials said. Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz said two more deaths had been reported in the western New York region that bore the brunt of the historic storm, bringing the total to 39. Erie County includes the snow-battered city of Buffalo, where most of the deaths occurred. Poloncarz said 17 of the 39 victims were found outside, 11 were in homes, four were in cars, four died while shoveling or snowblowing and three were the result of an ina...
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Kherson (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blasted Russian "terror" after shelling left 10 dead and 55 injured in Kherson city on Saturday, urging his compatriots to persevere as they observed a Christmas Eve defined by war. On the day marking 10 months since the start of the Russian invasion, shells rained around a busy market and started a fire in the southern port city which Kyiv's forces recaptured in November. AFP journalists at the scene saw several bodies lying on the street, including a man killed in his car. Rescuers and police officers were seen comforting a ma...
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Jackson (United States) (AFP) - Flash flooding caused by torrential rains has killed at least 15 people in eastern Kentucky and the death toll is expected to double, the US state's governor said Friday. "It is devastating. Our number of Kentuckians we've lost is now at 15, expected to more than double. And it's going to include some children," Governor Andy Beshear told CNN. He said hundreds of people had been rescued by boat and there had been about 50 aerial rescues using helicopters deployed by the National Guard. "Eastern Kentucky floods a lot but we've never seen something like this," Bes...
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San Antonio (AFP) - Texas residents gathered under a scorching sun Wednesday to mourn the 53 migrants who died this week after they were abandoned in a trailer in soaring temperatures, leaving tokens of flowers, candles and bottles of water. The mourners, several of whom said they or their loved ones had also migrated to the United States illegally, gathered at the site in San Antonio where the truck was found on Monday to erect large wooden crosses and pay their respects. Immigration authorities have said 53 people died, many of dehydration and heatstroke after they were shut inside the trai...
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Washington (AFP) - One million dead from Covid-19: two years ago it would have been unimaginable, but now the United States is on the verge of surpassing this terrible milestone. It will be the first country known to do so, although experts warn that the true death toll is likely to be far higher. Here are five things to know about the US pandemic. By the numbersOne million dead works out to around one in every 330 Americans -- one of the highest death rates in the developed world. Britain has seen around one in 380 people die of Covid, while in France it has been one in 456. In all, more tha...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Defense Department told lawmakers Tuesday it estimates between 2,000 and 4,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Moscow's nearly two-week-old invasion of Ukraine. The assessment came as US defense and intelligence leaders painted a stark picture of an aggressive and aggrieved Russian President Vladimir Putin and a likelihood that he will continue to propagate a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in the face of massive global opposition. Asked at a House Intelligence Committee hearing how many Russian troops have died to date in the military operation, Lieut...
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Washington (AFP) - The US death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic surpassed 900,000 on Friday, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker. The toll had hit 800,000 dead in mid-December, just a month and a half ago. New cases linked to the Omicron variant are falling, but daily deaths are still rising, with an average of 2,400 now, according to government figures. "Hospitalizations remain high, stretching our healthcare capacity and workforce to its limits in some areas of the country," said Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Covid de...
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