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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — US President Donald Trump arrived in Seoul Tuesday vowing to “figure it all out” with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-In, despite the two allies’ differences on how to deal with the nuclear-armed North. As tensions over Pyongyang’s weapons program have soared, the US president has traded personal insults and threats of war with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, but the South’s capital and its 10 million inhabitants would […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A special sauce more than a century older than the United States will be on the menu for Donald Trump at his state banquet in Seoul on Tuesday — along with a diplomatically tricky prawn. The dinner, at the Blue House compound next to a former royal palace, includes a beef rib dish accompanied by a gravy made with an “exquisite, 360-year-old soy sauce,” said a spokesman for Seoul’s presidential […]
by Carole Landry Agence France-Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council on Monday called on Myanmar to rein in its military campaign in Rakhine state and allow hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya driven from their homes to return. In a unanimous statement backed by China, the council strongly condemned the violence that has forced more than 600,000 Rohingya to flee across the border to Bangladesh. The council expressed “grave concern” over human […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Donald Trump’s marathon Asia tour moves on Tuesday to South Korea, another key ally in the struggle with nuclear-armed North Korea, but one with deep reservations about the US president’s strategy for dealing with the crisis. As tensions over Pyongyang’s weapons program have soared, the US president has traded personal insults and threats of war with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, but his next stop, Seoul — and its 10 million inhabitants […]
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) — Four men suspected of plotting with two women to murder the North Korean leader’s half-brother were Monday named by police as North Koreans who fled Malaysia after the assassination. They were identified at the trial of Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, the women accused of killing Kim Jong-Nam on February 13 with nerve agent VX at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in a hit that stunned the world. The pair, who […]
by Hassan Mohammed Agence France-Presse KAFR BATNA, Syria (AFP) – Dozens of trucks carrying aid for 40,000 people on Monday entered the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, where residents and relief groups have warned a humanitarian crisis is escalating. Shocking AFP images from the region this month showed severely underweight children, and doctors reported two infants had died of malnutrition and related complications. The United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red […]
by Delphine Matthieussent Agence France-Presse MOUNT HERMON,Syria (AFP) – The wounded Syrians, carried on donkeys through the pitch-black night, could be seen in the beam of a searchlight held by their unlikely saviours — Israeli soldiers. They were high in the mountains, nearing the Israeli-occupied zone of the Golan Heights, where they were to receive medical treatment for their wounds even though Israel and Syria are officially at war. Casualties from Syria‘s six-year civil war are taken […]
by Abdulmonam Eassa and Amer Almohibany Agence France-Presse HAMOURIA, Syria (AFP) – Manal boils water on the stove in the besieged Syrian town of Hamouria, hoping to convince her four children that she is cooking, but she has no food. She puts the pot on the flame as a ruse, waiting for the children to fall asleep in the dilapidated house before they realise there is nothing for dinner. In the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta […]
by Abdulmonam Eassa and Hasan Mohammed in Mesraba Agence France-Presse JISREEN, Syria (AFP) – At least six schoolchildren were among 11 people killed in Syrian regime shelling Tuesday in Eastern Ghouta, a war monitor said, despite a ceasefire in the hunger-hit rebel enclave. The bombardment of the rebel-held pocket outside Damascus came as a new round of peace talks to end Syria‘s six-year war entered a second day in the Kazakh capital Astana. Government fire […]
HOI AN, Vietnam (AFP) — At least 49 people have died after Typhoon Damrey slammed into central Vietnam, disaster officials said Monday, as heavy flooding cast doubt on a planned retreat for APEC leaders’ spouses to the ancient town of Hoi An. The weather system hit just days before Vietnam welcomes world leaders to the APEC summit in Danang and has left several areas totally submerged in the worst flooding in years. While Danang itself has not been […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s military has been ordered to pledge absolute loyalty to President Xi Jinping while a paramilitary police force now literally sings his praises, further cementing his place as the country’s most powerful leader in decades. The world’s largest armed forces should be “absolutely loyal, honest and reliable to Xi”, said a new guideline issued by the Central Military Commission and reported by state news agency Xinhua late Sunday. China’s military personnel […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — President Donald Trump lashed out Monday at the US trade relationship with Japan, saying it was “not fair and open”, as he prepared for formal talks with his Japanese counterpart. “We want fair and open trade but right now our trade with Japan is not fair and open,” Trump told business leaders in Tokyo. “The US has suffered massive trade deficits with Japan for many, many years. So we will have […]
