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KAENA POINT, Hawaii (Reuters) — Rescue teams searched for a downed Army Black Hawk helicopter with five crew members aboard that was last reported off the west coast of Hawaii, the United States Coast Guard said on Wednesday (August 16). Coast Guard Hercules and Army Black Hawk aircrews spotted debris near Kaena Point, Oahu at 11:28 p.m. local time (0928 GMT) after staff at Wheeler Army Airfield said they had lost contact with one of their […]
SUNSARI, Nepal (Reuters) — Residents of floo-hit Sunsari District in southern Nepal said on Wednesday (August 16) they have been left with nothing, after the Koshi River overflowed with monsoon rains and swept away their belongings. The death toll from the flash floods and landslides that have hit Nepal have left at least 115 people dead, officials said on Tuesday (August 15), with an additional 38 people still missing. Relief workers said 26 of Nepal’s 75 […]
(Eagle News) — It was an inspiring scene. South Africans singing in joy as they planted pecan trees and olive trees, as well as various vegetables in a land transformed into an eco-farm by the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) to help the people of Ladybrand and other nearby towns in South Africa. In South Africa, where there are many unemployed, this 508-hectare eco-farm, is now seen as the land of promise by […]
ENIWA, Japan (AFP) — Some 300 Japanese and United States military personnel on Wednesday carried out live-fire artillery training in northern Japan, officials said, amid high regional tensions over North Korean missile threats. The drill, part of a 19-day exercise, came after a tense war of words between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang’s threats to fire missiles towards the Pacific island of Guam. Troops from Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) and US Marines fired live ammunition […]
GAIBANDHA, Bangladesh (Reuters) — Floods in north Bangladesh have killed at least 39 people in the last few days and affected more than 500,000, many of them fleeing their homes to shelter in camps, officials said on Tuesday (August 15). The situation could get worse as swollen rivers carry rainwater from neighbouring India downstream into the low-lying and densely populated country, they said. In Gaibandha in Northern Bangladesh, soldiers were seen reinforcing houses with sandbags. […]
BEIJING, China (CCTV) — United States Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a three-day diplomatic visit. The top US military officer was greeted with a welcoming ceremony by his Chinese counterpart, General Fang Fenghui, chief of the Joint Staff Department under China’s Central Military Commission. While in Beijing, Dunford will hold talks with Chinese officials about US-China military cooperation and Korean Peninsula tensions. […]
by Ali Noorani Agence France Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — President Hassan Rouhani warned Tuesday that Iran could abandon its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers within hours if the United States keeps on imposing new sanctions. In a speech to parliament outlining plans for his new term, Rouhani also hit out at US counterpart Donald Trump, saying he had shown the world that Washington was “not a good partner.” Rouhani’s comments come with the […]
by David Harding Agence France Presse DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Qatar’s foreign minister said Tuesday it will take a “lot of time” to rebuild any trust between sparring Gulf countries because of the region’s continuing diplomatic crisis. As the impasse between Doha and four Arab states led by Saudi Arabia entered its 11th week, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said regional relations had been transformed by the dispute. “Qatar has always been one of the […]
SHAOYANG CITY, China (CCTV) — Heavy rainfall in China’s Hunan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has claimed a total of nine lives and one missing, local authorities said Monday. The rainwater, which accumulated in Hunan’s Shaoyang City and Guangxi’s Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, has turned the two places into Asian Venice, a well-known Italian city, while locals had to paddle boats to commute between places. Continuous rainfall in central China’s Hunan since last Friday […]
New Delhi, India (AFP) — India can defend itself from anyone who seeks “to act against our country,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an Independence Day speech Tuesday amid a tense standoff with Beijing over a Himalayan plateau. “Security is our top priority,” Modi said in a speech before thousands at the landmark Red Fort in New Delhi as the country marked the 70th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule. “Be it the sea […]
(Reuters) — North Korea’s leader received a report from his army on its plans to fire missiles towards Guam and said he will watch the actions of the United States for a while longer before making a decision, the North’s official news agency said on Tuesday (August 15). North Korea said last week it was finalizing plans to launch four missiles into the waters near the US Pacific territory of Guam, and its army would […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been briefed on a plan to fire missiles near Guam but hinted that he would hold off on the launch, Pyongyang’s state media said Tuesday. Kim “examined the plan for a long time” and “discussed it” with commanding officers on Monday during his inspection of the command of the Strategic Force in charge of the North’s missile units, according to the Korean Central […]
