Subscribe to Updates
Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.
Browsing: Gaming
Seven people were killed and 82 others went missing today after a landslide struck an area of West Java province in Indonesia following heavy rainfall.A Spokesperson for Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said in a press statement that the landslide hit a village in the West Bandung area, noting an increase in the number of missing persons. He added that teams were intensifying search and rescue efforts in a bid to find survivors. Related Story Source link
Europeans were among 150 senior Islamic State group detainees transferred this week by the US military from Kurdish custody in Syria to Iraq, whose premier urged EU countries to repatriate their nationals.They were among an estimated 7,000 militants due to be moved across the border to Iraq as the Kurdish-led force that has held them for years relinquishes swathes of territory to the advancing Syrian army.In 2014, IS swept across Syria and Iraq, committing massacres and forcing women and girls into physical slavery, but backed by a US-led coalition, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ultimately defeated the militants in Syria five years later.This month, the United States said the purpose of its alliance with the Kurds had largely expired, as Syria's new authorities pressed an offensive to take back territory long held by the SDF, which agreed to withdraw from swathes of territory in the north and east.The EU said yesterday that alleged breakouts by detained IS foreign fighters in Syria were of ‘paramount concern’ and was monitoring the transfer of prisoners to Iraq, ‘including foreign terrorist fighters’.An Iraqi security official said the 150 detainees, which the US military transferred to Iraq on Wednesday, were ‘all leaders of the Islamic State group, and some of the most notorious criminals,’ and included ‘Europeans, Asians, Arabs and Iraqis’.Another Iraqi security source said the group included ’85 Iraqis and 65 others of various nationalities, including Europeans, Sudanese, Somalis, and people from the Caucasus region’.They ‘all participated in IS operations in Iraq,’ including the 2014 offensive that saw the militant group seize large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria ‘are all at the level of leaders’, he said.They are now held at a prison in Baghdad.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that ‘non-Iraqi terrorists will be in Iraq temporarily’.In a telephone call yesterday with French President Emmanuel Macron, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed S al-Sudani urged European countries to take back and prosecute their nationals.The SDF jailed thousands of suspected militants and detained tens of thousands of their relatives in camps as it pushed out IS.The militant group's onslaught came during the peak of Syria's civil war, which was sparked by longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on pro-democracy protests.After toppling Assad just over a year ago, President Ahmed al-Sharaa is now seeking to consolidate the government's control over all of Syria.Despite repeated Kurdish and US appeals, foreign governments have generally avoided repatriating their nationals, fearing security threats and political backlash.US President Donald Trump told the New York Post on Tuesday that he had helped stop a prison break of European militants in Syria, a day after the army accused the SDF of releasing IS detainees from the Shadadi prison.The Kurds said they lost control of the facility after an attack by Damascus.Syrian authorities later said they had arrested ’81 of the fugitives’.In north Syria's Raqa province, an AFP correspondent saw Kurdish forces who formerly controlled the Al-Aqtan prison housing IS detainees being bussed out yesterday under a deal with the government.In northeast Syria, UN refugee agency (UNHCR) spokesperson Celine Schmitt said it had been unable to enter Al-Hol camp — the biggest facility housing suspected IS relatives including foreigners — for three days due to ‘the volatile security situation’. Source link
This picture taken on 2018 shows the logo of French dairy group Lactalis on a building in Laval, western France. – AFP France’s health minister is seeking sought to reassure consumers that all suspicious infant formula had been withdrawn, as an investigation began into the deaths of two babies who drank possibly contaminated powdered milk.The infant formula industry has been rocked in recent weeks by several firms recalling batches that could be contaminated with cereulide, a toxin that can cause diarrhoea and vomiting.The potentially contaminated milk has been “withdrawn” from the market, Health Minister Stephanie Rist said.In particular, Nestle pulled batches of infant milk in several European countries on January 6.French investigators are looking into the cause of death of two infants who allegedly consumed Nestle milk.One was a two-week-old baby who died on January 8 in Bordeaux, southwest France, after drinking milk from the now-recalled batches, a prosecutor in the city said on Thursday.The second infant, aged just 27 days, died on December 23 in the western city of Angers, the local prosecutor said.The mother contacted the authorities this week, saying that the baby had drunk Nestle milk from one of the lots removed from the market.At this time, there was no established causal link between the formula and their deaths, according to French authorities.Nestle told AFP yesterday that it would co-operate with the probes, adding there was “no evidence” at this stage linking its products to the infant deaths.French group Lactalis on Wednesday also said it was recalling batches in France and other countries over worries they contained cereulide.Lactalis did not name the supplier behind the tainted ingredient.Outside France, countries concerned included Australia, Chile, China, Colombia, the Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Spain, Madagascar, Mexico, Uzbekistan, Peru, Georgia, Greece, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, and Taiwan, a Lactalis spokesperson told AFP.Singapore authorities on Saturday recalled Dumex baby formula, a brand owned by French food giant Danone.Danone said the authorities blocked just “a few pallets” of Dumex, indicating they were not yet on any store shelves. Source link
Scores of businesses across Minnesota were closing up for the day yesterday in what religious leaders and labour unions describe as a general strike to protest US President Donald Trump’s deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers on the streets of Minneapolis.”ICE OUT!” was the message of flyers posted on businesses’ doors, referring to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency yesterday, a frigid day in snowy Minneapolis with temperatures well below freezing. “NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING.”Across the state, bars, restaurants, museums, shops and other local businesses were shuttering for the day. A sticker is partially torn off a storefront window of a closed business as civic leaders and labour unions launch a day of action and…
Rescuers have found the bodies of all 10 people who were on board a chartered plane that crashed into a mountain in Indonesia at the weekend. The turboprop plane, chartered by the fisheries ministry, was carrying seven crew and three civil servants, when it lost contact with air traffic control on Saturday. The aircraft crashed into Mount Bulusaraung on the island of Sulawesi. Eight bodies were recovered earlier this week as rescuers combed the mountain’s steep slopes. The bodies of the two remaining missing people were found yesterday and would be recovered, said local rescue official Andi Sultan. Source link
This handout from the Chinese Coast Guard taken and released by the Chinese embassy in Manila on January 23, 2026 shows Chinese Coast Guard personnel assisting…
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for a special summit of European Union leaders to discuss transatlantic relations following US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose new…
US President Donald Trump signed the founding charter for the Board of Peace during the World Economic Forum in Davos, joined on stage by leaders, foreign ministers and other top officials representing 19 other countries.The US President said: ‘Once this board is completely formed, we can do pretty much whatever we want to do,’ adding that the initiative would ‘work with many others, including the United Nations.’ ‘I've always said the United Nations has got tremendous potential, has not used it,’ Trump said.He added that the board was going to be ‘very successful in Gaza’ and ‘we can spread out to other things as we succeed with Gaza.’ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the board's priority was making sure the ceasefire in Gaza endures, but the possibilities for the organization were ‘endless.’The idea of the Board of Peace was conceived primarily to oversee the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, but its charter stipulates much broader tasks that include seeking to resolve other conflicts in different parts of the world. Source link
Paraguay’s President Santiago Pena, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani, Argentina’s President Javier Milei, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Bulgaria’s former Prime Minister…
People brace the cold temperatures while walking on the Brooklyn Bridge in the Manhattan borough of New York City. – AFP A winter storm bringing icy temperatures will slam a massive stretch of the United States this week, with more than 175mn people facing the prospect of heavy snowfall, power outages and travel disruption.Winter Storm Fern is forecast to engulf an area stretching from Texas and the Great Plains region to the mid-Atlantic and northeastern states.Forecasters warned it could be 2,000 miles (3,219lm) long – well over half the length of the continental US.The storm, which could impact nearly half the country’s population, will bring up to 20” (50.8cm) of snow in the Appalachians and West Virginia mountains, while most people living in the eastern US could face dangerous slick or frozen roads and potential power outages from ice-laden trees and branches falling and snapping power lines, officials said.”With the extreme cold in the North and the storm, half of all Americans are under some form of weather advisories,” said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service (NWS)’s Weather Prediction Centre in College Park, Maryland.New York City, Boston, Baltimore and Washington, DC could see 4-10” of heavy, wet snow starting Saturday, Hurley said, with temperatures in the low 20s degrees Fahrenheit in DC and Boston seeing a low of 7F (-14° Celsius).Throughout the storm, New York state was expected to be under a “Code Blue”, which requires social service providers to extend shelter hours and ensure the homeless have access to them.Chicago will see a “deep freeze”, according to Hurley, with a low of -2F Friday and Saturday and dangerous wind chills of -30F.Space heaters have been flying off the shelves all week at JC Licht Ace Hardware River North in Chicago, according to manager James Martin.Chicagoans know how to deal with extreme cold, said Martin, a Chicago native. “We move fast and we dress in layers and layers and more layers. Then we ask, ‘Why do we still live here?”In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of emergency, activating extra personnel and equipment to help control traffic, monitor power outages, rescue people trapped by the storm, and more.He urged Texans to “remain weather-aware, check DriveTexas.org before traveling, and heed the guidance of state and local officials”.The storm is expected to clear out of most areas by late Sunday or early on Monday.The extreme cold from an Arctic blast of air from Canada will bring a high temperature of only -5F Saturday in Fargo, North Dakota.Farther south the main storm hazard will be ice, weather forecasters said.From Central Virginia to northern Texas, the southeastern states could see accumulations of up to a half inch of ice.A combination of snow, rain and sleet could make travel almost impossible, local media warned.The Monroe County Road Commission, which covers a large area outside Detroit, Michigan, warned “there is a shortage of salt”.”This year we’ve used more than we have the last four Decembers combined,” David Leach, the commission’s managing director, told CBS News.In past years, rural areas in the northeast have been entirely cut off as snowploughs struggled to clear roads. Related Story Source link
