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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in southern Japan has risen to 15, media reported Saturday, as rescuers continued work to bring out isolated survivors. Raging rivers overflowing with water and mud have devastated swathes of Kyushu — the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands — after heavy rainfall, sweeping away roads and houses and destroying schools. Thousands of rescuers have been fighting through thick mud and battling rain […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — United States warplanes have flown over the disputed South China Sea, the US Air Force said Friday, a move aimed at asserting freedom of navigation rights in the hotly-contested area. The flights come as both US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend the G-20 meeting in Hamburg. A US B1-B bomber and two F-15 fighters with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force departed Guam’s Andersen Air Force Base and […]
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — Russia and the United States have agreed to a ceasefire in southwest Syria starting from midday on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Friday. “Today in Amman Russian, American and Jordanian experts… agreed on a memorandum of understanding to create a de-escalation zone” in the regions of Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida, Lavrov said. “There will be a ceasefire in this zone from midday Damascus time on July 9.” Lavrov was […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – China opposes the use of freedom of overflight as an excuse to harm its security, the country’s foreign ministry said on Friday (July 7), after two United States bombers flew over the disputed South China Sea. The flight by the B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam on Thursday (July 6) came as US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare for a meeting on the sidelines of a G20 summit […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s chief atomic energy regulator has acknowledged it was inappropriate to say it would be “much better” if North Korea dropped a missile on Tokyo rather than on a nuclear plant. Shunichi Tanaka, head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), found himself in hot water on Thursday after he spoke to people living near a recently restarted reactor. “If it were me, I think it would be much better to drop (a missile) on central Tokyo,” said Tanaka. He was speaking about a […]
Tokyo, Japan (Reuters) — The death toll in western Japan’s flooding disaster has risen to at least six, a government spokesman said on Friday (July 7), while thousands of rescuers, some in helicopters, searched for survivors. Parts of Fukuoka, on the southwestern island of Kyushu, were hit by 593 mm (23 inches) of rain in the 48 hours to 9:00 a.m. Friday (midnight GMT), well over the rainfall of a usual July, the meteorological agency said. […]
Hong Kong, China (Reuters) — China’s first aircraft carrier sailed into Hong Kong waters on Friday (July 7) in the latest show of the country’s growing military might at a time of heightened regional tensions. Tourists and residents gathered early to catch a glimpse of the massive carrier on its maiden visit to Hong Kong, part of celebrations marking 20 years since the handover of the city from British to Chinese rule. The Liaoning […]
ASAKURA CITY, Japan (Reuters) — Heavy rain continued to batter southwestern Japan on Friday morning (July 7), as local residents and firefighters continued the search for survivors while cleaning up debris. The heavy rain since earlier this week has caused three deaths and 100,000 evacuation orders after roads were inundated. The weather agency downgraded a special warning issued on Wednesday (July 5) to Fukuoka and neighboring Oita Prefecture to a regular alert, but heavy rain […]
by Quentin Tyberghien Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least two people have been killed and 18 others are missing in huge floods that are surging through southern Japan, with authorities warning hundreds of thousands of people to flee. Unprecedented torrential rain has caused rivers to burst their banks, sweeping away roads and houses, and destroying schools. Thousands of soldiers and other rescuer workers were scrambling Thursday to reach people cut off by […]
by Jung Ha-Won Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Newly equipped with an intercontinental ballistic missile, North Korea is looking to put itself in the “driver’s seat” for any future negotiations with Washington, analysts say — but may at the same time be pushing such talks further away. The weapon, tested on the United States’ Independence Day, can reach Alaska, and could go even further. It brings within reach Pyongyang’s long-held dream of […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Rescuers were being scrambled Thursday to reach areas in southern Japan hit by flash flooding, officials said, with several people feared missing and reports of houses swept away after torrential rains swelled rivers and triggered landslides. Emergency personnel were being deployed from early Thursday following the inundations overnight that caused authorities in Kyushu island and nearby areas to issue emergency evacuation orders to hundreds of thousands of people. The city of […]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Arab states that have cut ties with Qatar vowed Wednesday to maintain their boycott of the emirate, criticizing its “negative” response to their list of demands to end the diplomatic crisis. Qatar appealed for “dialogue” to resolve the row while United States President Donald Trump spoke to Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to urge all parties “to negotiate constructively.” The foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab […]
