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The eurozone entered into a technical recession at the start of the year, shrinking by 0.1 percent for a second consecutive quarter, figures from the EU's statistic agency showed Thursday. Eurostat revised down an earlier forecast that had predicted slight growth, after economic powerhouse Germany said last month it had fallen into recession. The worse-than-expected figures come as inflation and higher interest rates have curbed demand in Europe's largest economy.  Eurostat cut its earlier estimate of 0 percent growth in the final quarter of 2022 and 0.1 percent growth in the first quarter of 2023 to 0.1 percent contractions in both periods. — AFP

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the region flooded by the breached Kakhovka dam Thursday, as Moscow-installed authorities said five people had been killed in the disaster. The dam was breached on Tuesday, forcing thousands to flee their homes as water surged into the Dnipro River, flooding dozens of villages and parts of the regional capital Kherson and sparking fears of a humanitarian disaster. Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of causing the breach, which on Thursday had left 600 square kilometres underwater, according to a regional governor. Zelensky posted videos on Thursday showing him meeting officials in the Kherson region, as well as footage of people being evacuated at a crossing point. — AFP

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EU interior ministers meeting Thursday looked to reach an agreement on a long-stalled revision of the bloc's rules to more equally share the hosting of asylum seekers and migrants. But diplomats have cautioned the odds of a deal were still 50-50, with increasing numbers of European Union members adopting hardline policies on the issue. "It's almost three years since I presented this huge proposal and it's been a marathon," said EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson. "We have maybe 100 metres left, so we are so close to actually finding an agreement today." — AFP

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Pope Francis, 86, spent a good first night in hospital after a three-hour operation in a Rome hospital to fix a painful hernia, the Vatican said Thursday. "The night went well", the press office said in a short statement, adding that further details would be provided later. The Argentine pontiff was said to have been awake and joking with his medical team Wednesday after the abdominal operation at the Gemelli hospital. The pope, who underwent colon surgery in 2021, had been suffering from an incisional hernia on the site of a scar from a previous surgery, doctor Sergio Alfieri told reporters Wednesday. — AFP

7 hours ago

WhatsApp on Thursday begins letting select organizations try a new feature called "Channels" that lets them broadcast to followers on the popular, Meta-owned messaging service. The debut comes as an array of agencies and organizations grow disenchanted with Elon Musk-owned Twitter in the face of fees, performance problems, and dramatically scaled-back content moderation. Meta described Channels as "a simple, reliable, and private way to receive important updates from people and organizations, right within WhatsApp." — AFP

9 hours ago

Tokyo shares drop Thursday on profit-taking following recent gains, with falls of US tech shares and a shock interest rate hike by Canada's central bank also encouraging selling. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 0.85%, or 272.47 points, to 31,641.27, while the broader Topix index fell 0.67%, or 14.80 points, to 2,191.50. — AFP

10 hours ago

More than 30 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan's air defence zone over the course of about six hours, the island's defence ministry said Thursday, a sharp ramp-up in single-day incursions by China's military. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has vowed to take it one day -- by force if necessary. — AFP

11 hours ago

A bipartisan group of United States lawmakers including Florida Senator Marco Rubio has urged Joe Biden's administration to "prohibit" Hong Kong's sanctioned leader from attending an annual Pacific economic summit in California.  The Chinese finance hub is one of the member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) trade summit, which is due to be held in San Francisco in November. But Hong Kong leader John Lee was placed under US sanctions in 2020 by the Donald Trump administration due to his role as the city's security chief in crushing massive and at times violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong the year before. "Inviting a sanctioned human rights abuser is an affront to all those who have been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party and (China), and its proxies in Hong Kong," the lawmakers said Wednesday in an open letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. — AFP

11 hours ago

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has raised the alert level of Mayon Volcano to Alert Level 3 (increased tendency towards a hazardous eruption) from Alert Level 2 (increasing unrest). It says in a bulletin that this means that the volcano is “exhibiting magmatic eruption of a summit lava dome, with increased chances of lava flows and hazardous [pyroclastic density current] affecting the upper to middle slopes of the volcano and of potential explosive activity within weeks or even days.” Phivolcs recommends evacuation within the 6-km radius Permanent Danger Zone, and urges increased vigilance against PDCs, lahars and sediment-laden streamflows along channels draining the edifice. It adds that ash fall events may most likely occur on the south side of the volcano, based on prevailing wind pattern. MAYON VOLCANO BULLETIN8 June 202312:00 Noon#MayonVolcano https://t.co/i6RrwbtJgi pic.twitter.com/xAWXv9YzpZ— PHIVOLCS-DOST (@phivolcs_dost) June 8, 2023

11 hours ago

Former US vice president Mike Pence launched his presidential campaign Wednesday by framing the Republican nomination as a choice between "reckless" Donald Trump and the Constitution -- arguing that his old boss's bid to overturn the last election should bar him from returning in 2024. Offering a spirited defense of the Trump White House's policies, the deeply religious former radio talk show host and Indiana governor said he was proud to stand with his running mate "every single day" during the 2017-21 administration. But he drew the line at the then-president's incitement of a crowd to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as Pence was inside, overseeing the certification of Joe Biden's election win.  "As I've said many times, on that fateful day, president Trump's words were reckless and endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol," Pence told supporters in Ankeny, Iowa. "The American people deserve to know that on that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. Now voters will be faced with the same choice. I chose the Constitution and I always will." — AFP

14 hours ago

Myanmar lawyers defending political detainees in junta-run courts are being harassed and even jailed by military authorities, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, warning that intimidation was forcing many to stop taking cases. Since it seized power more than two years ago and plunged the country into turmoil, the junta has arrested tens of thousands in a sweeping and bloody crackdown on dissent. Rights groups say the military has used the courts to throttle opponents including democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi and former president Win Myint, who were jailed for lengthy terms by closed-door courts. Defence lawyers working in "special courts" set up by the junta to try political crimes face harassment, intimidation and threats from authorities, HRW said in a report based on interviews with 19 lawyers. "In the courtroom, I now have to worry about not getting myself detained rather than speaking the truth," one Yangon-based lawyer told the watchdog. — AFP

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