Rescuers race to reach cyclone survivors as hundreds feared dead in France’s Mayotte
Rescue workers on Monday were racing to reach survivors after Cyclone Chido devastated Mayotte, causing major damage to its airport and cutting off communication links in the French territory. Prefect François-Xavier Bieuville told a local broadcaster the death toll from the cyclone was several hundred people and could even be in the thousands.
France used ships and military aircraft to rush rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Monday after the island group was battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a century. Authorities fear hundreds and possibly thousands of people have died.
Cyclone Chido leveled entire neighborhoods of metal shacks and other flimsy structures when it hit Mayotte, France’s poorest department, on Saturday. Entire hillside villages were reduced to a jumble of snapped trees and piles of corrugated metal and wooden frames of houses.
South Korean court begins review of president’s impeachment over martial law
President Yoon Suk Yeol and senior officials face potential charges of insurrection and abuse of authority
Mon 16 Dec 2024 07.48 GMT
South Korea’s constitutional court has begun reviewing the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law on 3 December, a process that will decide if he is removed from office.
The court will hold the first public hearing on 27 December, the spokesperson Lee Jean told a news conference, after the court’s six justices met on Saturday to discuss plans for reviewing the impeachment by the opposition-controlled parliament.
As Europe needs workers, Syrians face push to return
With labor shortages across Europe, how can EU states balance calls to repatriate Syrians after the fall of Assad with the bloc's workforce needs?
Germany was quick to announce a pause in asylum applications from Syrian nationals following the fall of dictator Bashar Assad on December 8.
Just 36 hours after Syrian rebels declared they had liberated the capital, Damascus, the German government suspended decisions on more than 47,000 pending asylum claims from Syrians. Within hours, France, Britain, Italy, and several others followed suit.
The decisions heightened nervousness among the more than 1.5 million Syrians who have settled in Europe since the civil war began in 2011.
Cambodian interns sue farmer, claim sex abuse, abortion
By YUTO YONEDA/ Staff Writer
December 16, 2024 at 17:47 JST
Three Cambodian women sued a strawberry farm operator in Tochigi Prefecture, saying he sexually abused them and forced one to have an abortion when they were working as technical intern trainees.
The lawsuit, filed with the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 16, seeks damages of about 90 million yen ($586,000) from the farm operator.
The three plaintiffs worked at the man’s farm from 2022 to 2023 under the government’s technical trainee program.
Assad says he didn’t plan to flee Syria, according to presidency Telegram account
Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s departure from the country was unplanned, according to a statement posted Monday on the Syrian Presidency Telegram account, purporting to be from Assad.
It’s unclear if Assad still controls the Telegram account. If the statement is authentic, it would mark the first time he has publicly commented on events since his regime fell this month.
“My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles, as some have claimed. On the contrary, I remained in Damascus, carrying out my duties until the early hours of Sunday 8th December 2024,” the statement from the Syrian Presidency account on Telegram said.
Prince Andrew will not join Royal Family for Christmas at Sandringham as alleged Chinese spy named
Summary
Prince Andrew will not be at Sandringham for Christmas this year, royal sources confirm to the BBC
It comes as an alleged Chinese spy who he was linked to has been named as Yang Tengbo
The businessman, who previously could be referred to only as H6, was banned from the UK in 2023 by a semi-secret national security court
Yang, who agreed to have his anonymity lifted, said he had done "nothing wrong or unlawful" and descriptions of him as an alleged spy were "entirely untrue" - read his full statement here
Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith earlier warned his presence was "the tip of the iceberg" in the UK
A master's degree in York, a travel business in the UK, and then a ban from the country - read a timeline of Yang's case here
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