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SEOUL, South Korea — For the second time in less than a month, North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan, days after the international community further tightened its sanctions over its banned weapons and nuclear program. Here’s how the program got to where it is: Late 1970s: North Korea starts working on a version of the Soviet Scud-B (range 300 kilometers or 186 miles). Test-fired in 1984 1987-92: Begins developing variant of Scud-C (500 km), […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday concerning North Korea’s latest missile launch over Japan, the council presidency announced. The United States and Japan requested the meeting, which will be held at 3 pm (1900 GMT), according to the Ethopian council presidency. The meeting will be closed-door, diplomats said. Pyongyang’s latest launch comes after the Security Council imposed an eighth set of sanctions on North […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan condemned Friday’s North Korean missile launch “with strongest words,” the top government spokesman said, saying the country could “never tolerate this repeated extreme provocative action.” “We have strongly protested to the North, telling them of the strong anger of the Japanese people,” Yoshihide Suga told reporters. © Agence France-Presse
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Hamza bin Laden, son and would-be heir of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has urged Muslims around the world to join the jihad in Syria against “crusaders” and Shiites. “The cause of Syria is the cause of the entire worldwide Muslim community,” he said in an undated audio recording released on jihadist networks Thursday. “In order for the people of Syria to resist the Crusader, Shiite and international aggression, Muslims […]
NASIRIYA, Iraq (AFP) — Gunmen and suicide car bombers killed at least 74 people, including seven Iranians, near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya on Thursday, an official said, giving an updated toll. “There are now 74 deaths and 93 wounded,” Abdel Hussein al-Jabri, deputy health chief for the mainly Shiite province of Dhiqar, said of the attack claimed by the Islamic State group. That was up from the previous toll of 52 dead and […]
LUCKNOW, India (AFP) — At least 20 people died on Thursday when a boat packed with laborers capsized on the Yamuna river in northern India, an official said. Twenty bodies have been recovered, Dharam Pal Singh, additional magistrate of Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh state, told AFP. “It appears the boat was crowded beyond its capacity,” he said. “The incident happened early morning. It was a privately hired boat and was carrying some 50-55 people,” […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam on Thursday ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate its central coastal area as Typhoon Doksuri closed in, with officials predicting the storm could be the most powerful in a decade. Doksuri is expected to make landfall in Vietnam midday Friday, packing heavy winds and rain. Officials ordered an offshore fishing ban, while some 47,000 people in Ha Tinh province began leaving their homes Thursday, according to an official from […]
YALA, Thailand (Reuters) — Roadside bombs planted by suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand killed one soldier on Thursday (September 14) and wounded 20 other people, most of them soldiers and police, security forces said. The blasts occurred in Yala, one of the predominantly ethnic, Malay Muslim provinces in the deep south where a separatist insurgency has dragged on for decades, with more than 6,500 people killed since 2004 alone. The first bomb did not […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Twenty-five people, most of them students, were killed when a fire tore through a school in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, an official said. The blaze broke out in the school, Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah, located in a mainly Malay settlement of Datuk Keramat just before dawn. “The number of confirmed dead are 23 students and two wardens,” Khirudin Drahman, director of Kuala Lumpur’s fire and rescue department told AFP. “They could have died […]
by Carole Landry Agence France-Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday broke its weeks-long silence on the crisis in Myanmar and called for an end to the violence as UN chief Antonio Guterres said the military campaign amounted to the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims. Following a closed-door meeting, the 15-member council including China, a supporter of Myanmar’s former ruling junta, expressed concern about excessive force during security […]
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Divers Wednesday recovered the bodies of two seamen who went missing after their dredger collided with a tanker off Singapore and rescuers were hunting for three still missing. The accident around the busy Singapore Strait occurred just weeks after a deadly collision involving a US warship in the same area. After the latest collision in the early hours, the Dominican-registered dredger capsized, leaving four Chinese members of crew and one Malaysian […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi will address the crisis engulfing Rakhine state next week, in her first speech since scores were killed in violence that has sent nearly 380,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh. In a press conference government spokesman Zaw Htay said Suu Kyi will “speak for national reconciliation and peace” in a televised address on September 19. He said the Nobel laureate, who has been pilloried by rights groups […]
