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(Eagle News) – A magnitude 7.8 quake shook Russia, 199 kilometers east southeast of Nikol’skoye off Bering Strait, triggering fears of a tsunami as the quake struck at a depth of only 11.7 kilometers. The quake struck at 7:34 a.m. (Manila time) in Russia. The quake’s magnitude was initially reported at 7.7 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), but was later revised to 7.8. The United States Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Iran is receiving “contradictory signals” from the United States administration about the fate of the nuclear deal but Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday he has yet to discuss it with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. In New York to attend a United Nations forum on development, Zarif said he was open to speak with Tillerson as Washington carries out a review of the 2015 agreement reached […]
by Issam Ahmed Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Huddled around a small table in the halls of a cavernous Washington concert hall, a group of Afghan teenage girls tweak gears and sprockets on their radio-controlled robot, hoping to best the competition. But the six proud nerds from war-torn Afghanistan’s western province of Herat almost didn’t make it to the United States capital for the chance to battle other high school students from […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — European Union member countries agreed Monday to consider imposing new sanctions on North Korea after it tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. Last month, the EU expanded its sanctions blacklist after North Korea launched a volley of surface-to-ship cruise missiles off its east coast. EU foreign ministers met on Monday to condemn the July 4 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch as an “outright violation” of UN Security Council resolutions. North Korea […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — The death toll from severe monsoon flooding across India has risen to at least 76, officials said Monday, with eight people killed in the past day in the worst-hit states. Heavy rain in Gujarat has claimed 11 lives since Saturday as the monsoon intensified across the western state. “Seven of these died in the last 24 hours and at least four others are still missing,” Pankaj Kumar, a Gujarat government official, told AFP. Arunachal Pradesh […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea proposed military talks with North Korea, the first since 2015, and a halt to hostile activities near the inter-Korean border, the South’s vice defense minister said on Monday (July 17), after a series of missile tests by the North in recent weeks. Vice Defense Minister Suh Choo-suk told a news briefing that the South had asked Pyongyang to restore military communication lines as a response to the proposal. The […]
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) — After a long and fierce battle that finally led to the liberation of Mosul, Iraqi forces have started clearing up the war-torn city which has been reduced into a wasteland of rubble after months of brutal fighting. The Old City, Mosul’s historical heart, has been among the hardest hit areas by the house-to-house fighting backed by airstrikes, artillery and heavy machine guns used to uproot the Islamic State (IS) militants, who […]
by Becky Davis Agence France Presse SHENYANG, China (AFP) — China faced international calls Friday to free the widow of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo after global condemnation over the Communist regime’s refusal to grant the democracy champion’s dying wish to leave the country. The United States and the European Union urged President Xi Jinping’s government to let Liu’s widow, the poet Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest since 2010, leave the country. Chinese […]
BEIJING, China (CCTV) — A fleet of Chinese warships led by China’s first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, conducted a training exercise aimed at testing the operational readiness of the naval vessels and the carrier-based fighter jets upon arrival in an unidentified sea area on Thursday. The drill, which also involved the destroyers Jinan and Yinchuan and the frigate Yantai, focused on examining the fleet’s combat deployment, reconnaissance and early-warning systems, as well as air maneuvers of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Chen Guangcheng, one of China’s best-known activists who fled to the United States, charged Thursday that Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo was “deliberately killed” by the country’s rulers, urging the international community to maintain pressure on Beijing. Liu, a veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 who was jailed in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power” with his Charter 08 manifesto calling for democratic reforms, died Thursday at […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s first-half trade with North Korea rose 10.5 percent year-on-year, Chinese officials said Thursday, as the United States urges Beijing to apply economic pressure on its neighbor. Customs administration spokesman Huang Songping said exports to the hermit nation rose 29.1 percent in the first six months of the year, although imports were down 13.2 percent. © Agence France-Presse
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – An undersea earthquake off the coast of North Korea was not caused by a nuclear test, the South’s media reported Thursday. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck about 190 kilometers (120 miles) south-east of the reclusive state’s third largest city, Chongjin, in the early hours of Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. North Korea has staged five nuclear tests — including two last year — and has made a significant […]
