Category: GLOBAL

  • Fighter jet crashes in U.S.’s San Diego Bay

    NEW YORK – A fighter jet has crashed in San Diego Bay, California, the United States, with the two pilots ejecting before the aircraft hit the water, U.S. media say.

    The fighter jet, an E/A-18 G Growler, crashed in San Diego Bay, near Naval Air Station North Island, on Wednesday.

    The two pilots were rescued from the water and were taken to the hospital.

    The incident was the latest in a series of nearly back-to-back aerial mishaps in the United States that have raised questions about aviation safety.

    On Monday, a plane crashed into another one at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, killing one person and injuring three others.

    On January 29, 67 people were killed when a passenger plane on approach to Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., collided with a U.S. Army helicopter midair.

    IRNA

  • Jet pejuang terhempas di Teluk San Diego AS

    NEW YORK – Sebuah jet pejuang terhempas di Teluk San Diego, California, Amerika Syarikat (AS), dengan dua juruterbang terbabit melentingkan diri sebelum pesawat itu terkena air, kata media AS.

    Jet pejuang itu, E/A-18 G Growler, terhempas di Teluk San Diego, dekat Naval Air Station North Island, pada Rabu.

    Kedua-dua juruterbang itu diselamatkan dari air dan dibawa ke hospital.

    Insiden itu adalah yang terbaru dalam siri kemalangan udara yang hampir berulang-ulang di AS yang menimbulkan persoalan tentang keselamatan penerbangan.

    Pada Isnin, sebuah pesawat merempuh sebuah lagi di Lapangan Terbang Scottsdale di Arizona, membunuh seorang dan mencederakan tiga yang lain.

    Pada 29 Januari, 67 orang terbunuh apabila pesawat penumpang dalam perjalanan ke Lapangan Terbang Nasional Reagan dekat Washington, DC, bertembung dengan helikopter tentera AS di udara.

    IRNA

  • Bot nelayan terbakar di barat daya Korea Selatan

    SEOUL – Sebuah bot nelayan terbakar di perairan barat daya Korea Selatan pada Khamis, dengan tiada yang cedera atau terbunuh disahkan lagi, menurut agensi berita Yonhap.

    Dilaporkan kepada pengawal pantai sekitar jam 8:39 pagi waktu tempatan (2339 GMT Rabu) bahawa bot nelayan seberat 34 tan itu terbakar di perairan daerah Buan, kira-kira 200 km barat daya ibu kota Seoul.

    Sebelas orang, termasuk seorang kapten dan 10 kru, dilaporkan berada di atas bot nelayan itu.

    Pengawal pantai menghantar bot peronda ke tempat kejadian dan meminta bantuan kapal berdekatan.

    Seorang pegawai pengawal pantai dipetik sebagai berkata mangsa yang cedera atau terbunuh masih belum disahkan.

    XINHUA

  • Fishing boat catches fire off southwestern S. Korea

    SEOUL – A fishing boat fire broke out in waters off southwestern South Korea on Thursday, with no casualty confirmed yet, according to Yonhap news agency.

    It was reported to the coast guard at around 8:39 a.m. local time (2339 GMT Wednesday) that the 34-ton fishing vessel caught fire in waters off Buan county, about 200 km southwest of the capital Seoul.

    Eleven people, including a captain and 10 crew members, were reportedly on board the fishing boat.

    The coast guard dispatched patrol boats to the scene and asked nearby ships for help.

    A coast guard official was quoted as saying that casualties had yet to be confirmed.

    XINHUA

  • 5 askar Yaman terbunuh dalam pertempuran dengan Houthi di wilayah kaya minyak: sumber

    SANAA – Sekurang-kurangnya lima askar Yaman terbunuh pada Rabu ketika pertempuran dengan tentera Houthi di wilayah Marib yang kaya dengan minyak, tengah Yaman, lapor sumber tentera.

    Pertempuran meletus selepas matahari terbenam di barisan depan di daerah Raghwan, utara Marib, dengan kedua-dua pihak mengerahkan meriam dan dron, kata sumber itu dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan.

    Kumpulan Houthi belum membuat sebarang komen mengenai pertempuran itu.

    Tentera kerajaan kini mengawal tengah Marib, termasuk medan minyak dan gasnya, manakala Houthi menguasai beberapa daerah di pinggir utara dan selatan wilayah itu.

    Pertempuran sporadis berterusan sejak gencatan senjata yang rapuh dicapai pada 2022. Bagaimanapun, ketegangan meningkat bulan ini di Marib, dengan kedua-dua pihak berkumpul di sepanjang medan pertempuran.

    Yaman dilanda perang saudara sejak akhir 2014, apabila kumpulan Houthi menguasai beberapa wilayah utara, memaksa kerajaan yang diiktiraf antarabangsa meninggalkan ibu kota Sanaa.

    XINHUA

  • 5 Yemeni soldiers killed in clashes with Houthis in oil-rich province: source

    SANAA – At least five Yemeni soldiers were killed on Wednesday during clashes with Houthi forces in the oil-rich province of Marib, central Yemen, a military source reported.

    The fighting erupted after sunset on a front line in the Raghwan district, north of Marib, with both sides deploying artillery and drones, the source said on condition of anonymity.

    The Houthi group has made no comment yet on the clashes.

    Government troops currently control central Marib, including its oil and gas fields, while the Houthis hold several districts on the province’s northern and southern edges.

    Sporadic clashes have continued since a fragile truce was reached in 2022. However, tensions have escalated this month in Marib, with both sides massing forces along battlefronts.

    Yemen has been engulfed in a civil war since late 2014, when the Houthi group seized control of several northern provinces, forcing the internationally recognized government to flee the capital Sanaa.

    XINHUA

  • Pengaman Tunisia terbunuh di Republik Afrika Tengah

    TUNIS – Seorang pengaman Tunisia yang berkhidmat di bawah Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) di Republik Afrika Tengah terbunuh dekat sempadan dengan Chad, Kementerian Pertahanan Tunisia mengumumkan pada Rabu.

    “Insiden itu berlaku pada petang Selasa, apabila peronda tentera Tunisia, sebahagian daripada Unit Intervensi Pantas yang ditempatkan di bawah topi keledar biru PBB, diserang hendap. Serangan itu mengakibatkan kematian seorang anggota peronda,” kata satu kenyataan kementerian.

    Peronda itu menjalankan misi rutin sebagai sebahagian daripada Misi Penstabilan Bersepadu Multidimensi PBB di Republik Afrika Tengah.

    Tunisia mengerahkan Unit Intervensi Pantas ke Republik Afrika Tengah pada Jun 2021. Misi unit itu termasuk menyokong pasukan barisan depan, melindungi orang awam, mengamankan kawasan yang ditetapkan, mengiringi konvoi kemanusiaan dan melindungi kakitangan PBB.

    XINHUA

  • Tunisian peacekeeper killed in Central African Republic

    TUNIS – A Tunisian peacekeeper serving under the United Nations in the Central African Republic was killed near the border with Chad, the Tunisian Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday.

    “The incident occurred on Tuesday evening, when a Tunisian military patrol, part of the Rapid Intervention Unit deployed under the UN’s blue helmets, was ambushed. The attack resulted in the death of one patrol member,” said a ministry statement.

    The patrol was carrying out a routine mission as part of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic.

    Tunisia deployed its Rapid Intervention Unit to the Central African Republic in June 2021. The unit’s mission includes supporting frontline forces, protecting civilians, securing designated areas, escorting humanitarian convoys, and safeguarding UN personnel.

    XINHUA

  • Lebih 10 cedera dalam letupan grenad di Perancis

    PARIS – Lebih 10 orang cedera pada malam Rabu dalam letupan grenad (bom) di bandar Grenoble, tenggara Perancis, lapor akhbar harian Perancis Le Figaro.

    Letupan berlaku sekitar jam 8 malam waktu tempatan di sebuah bar. Dua daripada yang cedera berada dalam keadaan kritikal, kata laporan itu, memetik sumber polis.

    Datuk Bandar Grenoble Eric Piolle di platform media sosial X mengecam “tindakan jenayah keganasan itu yang tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini”.

    Selepas siasatan awal, polis menolak serangan pengganas, menurut laporan itu.

    XINHUA

  • Over 10 injured in grenade explosion in France

    PARIS – More than 10 people were injured on Wednesday night in a grenade explosion in France’s southeastern city of Grenoble, the French daily Le Figaro reported.

    The explosion occurred around 8:00 p.m. local time in a bar. Two of the injured were in critical condition, the report said, citing a police source.

    Mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle condemned the “criminal act of unprecedented violence” on the social media platform X.

    After a preliminary investigation, police have ruled out a terrorist attack, according to the report.

    XINHUA

  • 124 wartawan terbunuh, kebanyakannya oleh Israel, dalam tahun paling maut bagi wartawan

    NEW YORK – Tahun lalu adalah yang paling maut bagi wartawan dalam sejarah baru-baru ini, dengan sekurang-kurangnya 124 wartawan terbunuh – dan Israel bertanggungjawab untuk hampir 70 peratus daripada jumlah itu, Jawatankuasa Melindungi Wartawan (CPJ) melaporkan pada Rabu.

    Peningkatan dalam pembunuhan, yang menandakan peningkatan 22 peratus berbanding 2023, mencerminkan “tahap konflik antarabangsa yang meningkat, pergolakan politik dan jenayah di seluruh dunia,” kata CPJ.

    Ia merupakan tahun paling dahsyat bagi wartawan dan pekerja media sejak CPJ mula menyimpan rekod lebih tiga dekad lalu, dengan wartawan dibunuh di 18 negara berbeza, katanya.

    Seramai 85 wartawan mati dalam perang Israel-Hamas, “semuanya di tangan tentera Israel,” kata CPJ, sambil menambah bahawa 82 daripada mereka adalah warga Palestin.

    Sudan dan Pakistan mencatatkan jumlah kedua tertinggi wartawan dan pekerja media terbunuh, dengan enam setiap satu.

    Di Mexico, yang mempunyai reputasi sebagai salah satu negara paling berbahaya bagi wartawan, lima terbunuh, dengan CPJ melaporkan ia telah menemui “kepincangan berterusan” dalam mekanisme Mexico untuk melindungi wartawan.

    Dan di Haiti, di mana dua wartawan dibunuh, keganasan yang meluas dan ketidakstabilan politik telah menimbulkan begitu banyak huru-hara sehingga “geng kini secara terbuka mengaku bertanggungjawab atas pembunuhan wartawan,” kata laporan itu.

    Kematian lain berlaku di negara seperti Myanmar, Mozambique, India dan Iraq.

    “Hari ini adalah masa paling berbahaya untuk menjadi wartawan dalam sejarah CPJ,” kata Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif kumpulan itu Jodie Ginsberg.

    “Perang di Gaza tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini dalam kesannya terhadap wartawan dan menunjukkan kemerosotan besar dalam norma global dalam melindungi wartawan,” katanya.

    CPJ, yang menyimpan rekod pembunuhan wartawan sejak 1992, berkata 24 daripada wartawan itu sengaja dibunuh kerana kerja mereka pada 2024.

    Wartawan sambilan, kata laporan itu, adalah antara yang paling terdedah kerana kekurangan sumber mereka, dan menyumbang 43 daripada pembunuhan pada 2024.

    Tahun 2025 tidak kelihatan lebih menjanjikan, dengan enam wartawan sudah terbunuh pada minggu pertama tahun ini, kata CPJ.

    AN-AFP/12 Feb 2025

  • 124 journalists killed, most by Israel, in deadliest year for reporters

    NEW YORK – Last year was the deadliest for journalists in recent history, with at least 124 reporters killed — and Israel responsible for nearly 70 percent of that total, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Wednesday.

    The uptick in killings, which marks a 22 percent increase over 2023, reflects “surging levels of international conflict, political unrest and criminality worldwide,” the CPJ said.

    It was the deadliest year for reporters and media workers since CPJ began keeping records more than three decades ago, with journalists murdered across 18 different countries, it said.

    A total of 85 journalists died in the Israeli-Hamas war, “all at the hands of the Israeli military,” the CPJ said, adding that 82 of them were Palestinians.

    Sudan and Pakistan recorded the second highest number of journalists and media workers killed, with six each.

    In Mexico, which has a reputation as one of the most dangerous countries for reporters, five were killed, with CPJ reporting it had found “persistent flaws” in Mexico’s mechanisms for protecting journalists.

    And in Haiti, where two reporters were murdered, widespread violence and political instability have sown so much chaos that “gangs now openly claim responsibility for journalist killings,” the report said.

    Other deaths took place in countries such as Myanmar, Mozambique, India and Iraq.

    “Today is the most dangerous time to be a journalist in CPJ’s history,” said the group’s CEO Jodie Ginsberg.

    “The war in Gaza is unprecedented in its impact on journalists and demonstrates a major deterioration in global norms on protecting journalists,” she said.

    CPJ, which has kept records on journalist killings since 1992, said that 24 of the reporters were deliberately killed because of their work in 2024.

    Freelancers, the report said, were among the most vulnerable because of their lack of resources, and accounted for 43 of the killings in 2024.

    The year 2025 is not looking more promising, with six journalists already killed in the first weeks of the year, CPJ said.

    AN-AFP/Feb 12, 2025

  • 20 maut, berpuluh-puluh cedera dalam kemalangan jalan raya di utara Rwanda

    KIGALI – Dua puluh orang terbunuh dan sesetengah lagi cedera dalam kemalangan jalan raya di wilayah utara Rwanda pada petang Selasa.

    Kemalangan berlaku di sektor Rusiga daerah Rulindo apabila pemandu bas yang membawa lebih 50 penumpang hilang kawalan ketika cuba melalui selekoh. Bas itu tergelincir dari jalan dan terbabas menuruni bukit ke lembah.

    Menurut kenyataan dikeluarkan oleh Pejabat Perdana Menteri lewat petang Selasa, mangsa yang cedera menerima rawatan di hospital tempatan. Kerajaan telah berjanji untuk memberikan sokongan diperlukan kepada kedua-dua, yang kehilangan dan yang cedera.

    Kerajaan menggesa semua pengguna jalan raya terutama pemandu supaya mematuhi undang-undang dan peraturan jalan raya bagi mengelak kemalangan akan datang.

    Sepanjang lima tahun lalu, Polis Negara Rwanda (RNP) telah menjalankan kempen yang digelar “Gerayo Amahoro,” yang bermaksud “Tiba Selamat,” untuk mendidik dan mempromosikan penggunaan jalan raya yang lebih selamat dalam kalangan semua pengguna jalan raya sambil meningkatkan keterlihatan dan penguatkuasaan undang-undang jalan raya.

    Menurut RNP, Rwanda merekodkan kira-kira 9,600 kemalangan jalan raya antara Januari dan Disember 2024, mengakibatkan 350 kematian, penurunan 50 peratus dalam kematian berkaitan jalan raya berbanding tahun sebelumnya.

    Kemalangan yang melibatkan penunggang, kumpulan yang sangat terdedah, juga menyaksikan pengurangan sebanyak 17 peratus.

    XINHUA

  • Wabak taun membunuh lebih 110 orang di Angola

    LUANDA – Angola merekodkan 3,402 kes taun dan 114 kematian sejak wabak itu bermula pada awal Januari, menurut kenyataan akhbar harian Kementerian Kesihatan pada Selasa.

    Sejak 1 Februari, Angola telah melaporkan lebih daripada 100 kes taun baharu setiap hari, memuncak pada 295 kes pada 8 Februari. Bagaimanapun, ujian makmal untuk mengesahkan jangkitan masih terhad, dengan hanya kira-kira 20 sampel dianalisis setiap hari.

    Sejak wabak pada 7 Januari, penyakit itu telah merebak ke beberapa wilayah, dengan Luanda dan wilayah jiran, Bengo paling terjejas.

    Lebih 925,000 orang telah diberi vaksin kolera, meliputi 86 peratus daripada populasi sasaran, menurut buletin epidemiologi Kementerian Kesihatan pada Isnin.

    XINHUA

  • Cholera outbreak kills over 110 people in Angola

    LUANDA – Angola has recorded 3,402 cholera cases and 114 deaths since the outbreak began in early January, according to the Health Ministry’s daily press release on Tuesday.

    Since Feb. 1, Angola has been reporting more than 100 new cholera cases daily, peaking at 295 on Feb. 8. However, laboratory testing to confirm infections remains limited, with only about 20 samples analyzed per day.

    Since the outbreak on Jan. 7, the disease has spread to multiple provinces, with Luanda and the neighboring Bengo province the most affected.

    More than 925,000 people have been vaccinated against cholera, covering 86 percent of the target population, according to the Health Ministry’s epidemiological bulletin on Monday.

    XINHUA

  • 20 killed, dozens injured in road accident in northern Rwanda

    KIGALI – Twenty people were killed and several others injured in a road accident in Rwanda’s Northern Province on Tuesday afternoon.

    The accident occurred in Rusiga Sector of Rulindo District when the driver of a bus with more than 50 passengers lost control of the vehicle while attempting to navigate a corner. The bus veered off the road and tumbled downhill into a valley.

    According to a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office late Tuesday evening, the injured are receiving treatment in local hospitals. The government has pledged to provide the necessary support to both the bereaved and the injured.

    The government urged all road users, especially drivers, to adhere to traffic laws and regulations to prevent future accidents.

    Over the past five years, the Rwanda National Police (RNP) has conducted a campaign dubbed “Gerayo Amahoro,” which means “Arrive Safe,” to educate and promote safer road usage among all road users while increasing visibility and enforcement of traffic laws.

    According to the RNP, Rwanda recorded about 9,600 road accidents between January and December 2024, resulting in 350 deaths, a 50 percent decline in road-related fatalities compared to the previous year.

    Accidents involving cyclists, a particularly vulnerable group, also saw a 17 percent reduction.

    XINHUA

  • Dua jururawat di Australia digantung tugas kerana dilaporkan buat komen antisemitik

    SYDNEY – Dua jururawat di hospital Sydney digantung kerja kerana mengancam untuk bunuh pesakit Yahudi dan enggan merawat mereka dalam video di TikTok, mencetuskan siasatan oleh polis, kata pihak berkuasa pada Rabu.

    Video itu dikongsi oleh pengguna TikTok bernama Max Veifer, yang mengatakan dia berasal dari Israel, dan menunjukkan dia bercakap dengan seorang lelaki dan wanita yang memakai scrub perubatan.

    “Saya sangat kecewa kerana anda adalah orang Israel … akhirnya anda akan dibunuh dan pergi ke (neraka)”, lelaki dalam scrub perubatan itu berkata, selepas Veifer menyebut dia berasal dari Israel dalam sembang video.

    Ketika ditanya mengapa dia akan dibunuh, wanita dalam scrub perubatan itu berkata: “Ini negara Palestin, bukan negara kamu” dan menggunakan kata-kata lucah.

    Wanita itu berkata dia tidak akan merawat mana-mana pesakit Yahudi dan sebaliknya membunuh mereka. Lelaki itu, dengan isyarat mengancam, berkata dia sudah menghantar ramai warga Israel, yang melawat hospital, ke “Jahannam”, istilah untuk neraka dalam Islam dalam bahasa Arab.

    Reuters tidak dapat mengesahkan rakaman itu secara bebas dan tidak jelas sama ada video penuh perbualan itu telah dimuat naik oleh pengguna.

    Beberapa kata-kata wanita itu telah dibunyikan dalam video tersebut.

    Reuters tidak dapat segera menghubungi kedua-dua jururawat itu.

    Menteri Kesihatan negeri New South Wales Ryan Park berkata jururawat itu telah “dihentikan serta-merta”, sementara menunggu siasatan.

    “Jelas sekali, proses penyiasatan kini berlaku. Saya tidak mahu meninggalkan secebis cahaya untuk membenarkan mana-mana daripada mereka dapat berfikir bahawa mereka akan bekerja untuk Kesihatan New South Wales sekali lagi,” kata Park kepada pemberita.

    Polis negeri New South Wales berkata pasukan petugas antisemitiknya sedang menyiasat video media sosial yang menggambarkan pekerja kesihatan yang didakwa membuat ancaman antisemitik. Polis berkata, individu terbabit kini membantu detektif.

    Max Veifer, yang kerap menyiarkan video kebanyakannya mengenai Timur Tengah di TikTok, mempunyai 102,000 pengikut dan videonya telah disukai oleh 4.2 juta pengguna.

    Perdana Menteri Anthony Albanese berkata polis persekutuan Australia telah menawarkan “apa jua bantuan” kepada polis negeri New South Wales.

    “Saya telah melihat video antisemitik ini. Ia didorong oleh kebencian dan ia menjijikkan. Komen-komen itu keji, rakaman itu memuakkan dan ia memalukan,” kata Albanese di parlimen.

    Australia menyaksikan siri serangan yang semakin meningkat ke atas sinagog, bangunan dan kereta sejak perang Israel-Gaza bermula pada Oktober 2023, mencetuskan ketakutan dalam kalangan hampir 115,000 orang Yahudi Australia.

    REUTERS

  • Two nurses in Australia suspended for reportedly making antisemitic comments

    SYDNEY – Two nurses in a Sydney hospital have been suspended from work for threatening to kill Jewish patients and refusing to treat them in a video on TikTok, triggering an investigation by police, authorities said on Wednesday.

    The video was shared by a TikTok user named Max Veifer, who says he is from Israel, and shows him talking to a man and woman wearing medical scrubs.

    “I’m so upset that you’re Israeli … eventually you’re going to get killed and go to (hell)”, the man in medical scrubs said, after Veifer mentioned he is from Israel in a video chat.

    When asked why he would be killed, the woman in medical scrubs said: “It’s Palestine’s country, not your country” and used an obscenity.

    The woman said she would not treat any Jewish patients and instead kill them. The man, with a threatening gesture, said he had already send many Israelis, who visited the hospital, to “Jahannam”, the term for Islamic hell in Arabic.

    Reuters could not independently verify the footage and it was not immediately clear if the full video of the conversation had been uploaded by the user.

    Some of the woman’s words have been beeped out in the video.

    Reuters could not immediately contact the two nurses.

    New South Wales state Health Minister Ryan Park said the nurses have been “stood down immediately”, pending an investigation.

    “Obviously, the investigative process now takes place. I do not want to leave a sliver of light to allow any of them to be able to think that they will ever work for New South Wales Health again,” Park told reporters.

    New South Wales state police said its antisemitic taskforce is investigating a social media video depicting alleged health workers making antisemitic threats. Police said the individuals involved were now assisting detectives.

    Max Veifer, who regularly posts videos mostly about the Middle East on TikTok, has 102,000 followers and his videos have been liked by 4.2 million users.

    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Australian federal police has offered “whatever assistance” to New South Wales state police.

    “I have seen this antisemitic video. It’s driven by hate and it’s disgusting. The comments are vile, the footage is sickening and it is shameful,” Albanese said in parliament.

    Australia has seen an escalating series of attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars since the Israel-Gaza war began in October 2023, sparking fear among Australia’s nearly 115,000 Jewish people.

    REUTERS

  • 2 maut apabila gelongsoran tanah menghanyutkan trak dari lebuh raya Bolivia

    LA PAZ – Dua wanita maut apabila sebuah trak kargo dihanyutkan dari lebuh raya akibat gelongsoran tanah di jabatan La Paz Bolivia, kata pihak berkuasa pada Selasa.

    Komander polis wilayah itu berkata, kemalangan itu berlaku pagi Isnin di lebuh raya Quiabaya-Sorata berikutan hujan lebat yang mencetuskan gelongsoran tanah membawa maut.

    Hujan tanpa henti sejak November 2024 telah menyebabkan kemusnahan meluas di Bolivia.

    XINHUA

  • 2 killed as landslide sweeps truck off Bolivian highway

    LA PAZ – Two women died when a cargo truck was swept off a highway by a landslide in Bolivia’s La Paz department, authorities said Tuesday.

    The regional police commander said the accident happened Monday morning on the Quiabaya-Sorata highway following heavy rains that triggered deadly landslides across the country.

    Relentless rains since November 2024 have caused widespread destruction across Bolivia. The Vice Ministry of Civil Defense reported that 109,156 families had been affected or displaced as of Feb. 5, with more than 300 homes completely destroyed.

    XINHUA