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BEIJING, China (Reuters) – A car hit a tricycle at a crossroads in Haimen City of east China’s Jiangsu Province on Wednesday, leaving the tricycle driver trapped underneath the car, as shown by footage from roadside monitoring cameras. The car overturned on its side after hitting the tricycle and then trapped the elderly driver of the tricycle. Many passers-by came over to help lift the car and pull out the trapped driver. “The old man […]
by Kiki Siregar Agence France-Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – Indonesian authorities have arrested three suspects over a twin suicide bombing on a Jakarta bus terminal that killed three policemen and which has been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, an official said Friday. The elite anti-terror squad working with regular police Thursday detained two men in Bandung on Java island and a third in the nearby area of Cimahi, and their houses were now […]
YANG JIANG, China (CCTV) — A grandma from northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province challenged people’s concept of the elderly people’s lifestyle and became an internet hit by parachute-jumping from an altitude of 4,000 meters. Zuo Shufen, nearly 70 years old, flew to south China’s Guangdong Province with her granddaughter to experience skydiving during this year’s Labor Day Holiday. “My granddaughter suggested parachute-jumping last year, so this year I went with her without telling my son. I felt quite […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — United States-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed at least 35 civilians in an eastern Syrian town held by the Islamic State group, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit a series of residential buildings in Mayadeen, a town in Syria’s oil-rich eastern province of Deir Ezzor. “Among the dead are at least 26 relatives of IS fighters, many of them women and children, including […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – A third set of human remains found following the recovery of South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry has been identified as one of the missing victims, officials said Thursday. Cho Eun-Hwa, a 17-year-old girl from Danwon High School, was named by the maritime ministry in a statement. The wreck was salvaged in March and towed to the port of Mokpo last month so authorities could find the remains of nine unaccounted […]
WUZHEN, China (Reuters) – Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, beat Chinese Go master Ke Jie for a second time on Thursday (May 25), taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in a best of three series meant to test the limits of computers in taking on humans at complex tasks. Go is a highly complex board game dating back thousands of years that involves two contestants placing black and white stones on a grid. It is popular […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The Chinese government charged on Thursday that a US warship had entered its waters in the South China Sea “without permission”, prompting Beijing’s navy to warn the vessel to leave. The USS Dewey sailed less than 12 nautical miles from Mischief Reef — part of the Spratly Islands — on Thursday morning local time, a US official said earlier, the first freedom of navigation operation under President Donald Trump. “The relevant action […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – North Korea on Thursday accused the South of unleashing more than 450 machine gun rounds at a flock of birds in an “armed provocation” at the tense Demilitarized Zone, after Seoul’s forces fired warning shots at an object flying over the border. Seoul military officials initially suggested the item was a drone from North following the incident on Tuesday, before saying Wednesday that balloons carrying propaganda leaflets had blown in […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – It is justified for the World Health Organization (WHO) to not invite Taiwan to the ongoing 70th World Health Assembly (WHA), said a spokesperson for China’s State Council Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing on Thursday. An Fengshan made the remarks at a routine press briefing when asked about WHO’s exclusion of Taiwan from the WHA. “The international community recognizes the one-China principle universally. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 2758 and […]
MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) – Residents took shelter at makeshift evacuation centers in the southern Philippines on Thursday (May 25), as government troops continued their assault against Islamic militants. The Islamic State-linked Maute group occupied parts of the southern city of Marawi on Tuesday (May 23), prompting President Rodrigo Duterte to declare martial law in the entire Mindanao island. Thirteen militants and seven members of the security forces have so far been killed and 33 […]
WUZHEN, China (Reuters) — A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday (May 23), a major feather in the cap for the firm’s AI ambitions. In the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China’s world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet’s chief executive Eric Schmidt. The victory […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A US Navy ship has sailed in disputed South China Sea waters near a reef claimed by Beijing in the first “freedom of navigation” exercise under President Donald Trump, a US official said. The USS Dewey sailed “less than 12 nautical miles” from Mischief Reef — part of the Spratly Islands — early Thursday morning local time, the official said. The exercise is likely to provoke anger from Beijing as the […]
