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SEOUL, Dec 2, 2023 (AFP) – North Korea warned Saturday it would “destroy” US spy satellites if Washington tries “any attack” on its space asset, after Pyongyang launched its first military eye in the sky last week. A spokesman for the North’s defence ministry said it would consider such a move a “declaration of war”, according to a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. The statement came after a US official’s remark […]
MANILA, Dec 3, 2023 (AFP) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos condemned on Sunday a bombing attack by “foreign terrorists” on a Catholic mass in the southern Philippines that left at least three people dead. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the senseless and most heinous acts perpetrated by foreign terrorists upon the Mindanao State University (MSU) and Marawi communities early this Sunday morning,” Marcos said in a statement. I condemn in the strongest possible […]
MARAWI, Philippines, Dec 3, 2023 (AFP) – At least four people were killed and dozens wounded in a bomb attack on a Catholic mass in the insurgency-plagued southern Philippines on Sunday, with President Ferdinand Marcos blaming “foreign terrorists”. The blast happened during a morning service at Mindanao State University’s gymnasium in Marawi, the country’s largest Muslim city, which was besieged by Islamist militant groups in 2017. Police Lieutenant General Emmanuel Peralta said four people were […]
By Cecil MORELLA MANILA, Dec 2, 2023 (AFP) – A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Saturday, the US Geological Survey reported, followed by four major aftershocks that sent residents fleeing from coastal areas amid fears of a tsunami. The initial quake struck off the coast of the country at a depth of 32 kilometres (20 miles) at 10:37 pm local time (1437 GMT) about 21 kilometres northeast of Hinatuan municipality on […]
YANGON, Myanmar, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) – Ethnic minority fighters clashed with Myanmar’s military on a major trade route to Thailand on Friday, blocking traffic and sending people fleeing, residents and local media said. Fighters from the Karen National Union (KNU) fought with the military at dawn in the town of Kawkareik in eastern Karen state, according to local media reports. The town sits on the Asia Highway that links the trade hub of […]
THITU ISLAND, SOUTH CHINA SEA, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) – The Philippines said Friday it was establishing a coast guard station on the largest island it holds in the disputed South China Sea, to improve monitoring of Chinese vessels asserting Beijing’s claims in the waters. National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano made the announcement during a visit to the Philippine-held Thitu Island, which is part of the hotly contested Spratly Islands. The coast guard station would […]
SEOUL, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) – South Korea will launch its first military spy satellite early Saturday on a SpaceX rocket, Seoul’s defence ministry said, intensifying a space race on the peninsula after Pyongyang launched its first military eye in the sky last month. Seoul’s reconnaissance satellite, carried by one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, will lift off from the Vandenberg US Space Force Base in California at 0319 Seoul time (GMT 1819), […]
TOKYO, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) – The world’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated in Japan on Friday, a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity’s future energy needs. Fusion differs from fission, the technique currently used in nuclear power plants, by fusing two atomic nuclei instead of splitting one. The goal of the JT-60SA reactor is to investigate the feasibility of fusion as a safe, […]
HONG KONG, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) – A Hong Kong journalist group said Friday it was “very concerned” about the safety of an award-winning defence reporter who was reportedly missing after attending a security forum in Beijing. Minnie Chan, a reporter with Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (SCMP) specialising in defence and diplomacy issues in China, “became unreachable” after visiting Beijing to cover the Xiangshan Forum in late October, Japanese news agency Kyodo said, […]
TOKYO, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) – Japan’s coastguard on Friday scoured the seabed for the wreckage of an Osprey US military aircraft that crashed this week, with still no sign of seven missing airmen. Tokyo’s defence minister has called on the US military in Japan to ground its Ospreys pending safety checks, but the Pentagon said it was still operating the aircraft and had not received a suspension request. The tilt-rotor CV-22B Osprey went down […]
TOKYO, Nov 30, 2023 (AFP) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hailed on Thursday the late Henry Kissinger’s “significant contributions” to peace and stability in Asia. Kissinger “made significant contributions to the regional peace and stability, including the normalisation of diplomatic ties between the US and China,” Kishida told reporters after the former US secretary of state died aged 100. “I’d like to express my most sincere respect to the great achievements he made,” Kishida […]
