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SANAA, Yemen (AFP) – Authorities in Sanaa, which is controlled by Shiite rebels, have declared a state of emergency over a deadly outbreak of cholera that has spread rapidly in the Yemeni capital. The Huthi-run health ministry said in a statement carried overnight by the rebels’ Saba news agency that cases of cholera had worsened and that it was “unable to contain this disaster.” It launched an appeal for help from international humanitarian organizations to deal with […]
by Kiki Siregar Agence France-Presse BOGOR, Indonesia (AFP) – Tiny Indonesian baby Maryamah stared around from inside an incubator, her bright eyes swivelling left and right from under a woollen hat that was far too big for her. When she was born prematurely, Maryamah was just 1.2 kilograms (2.6 pounds), less than half the usual weight of a newborn in Indonesia. Now safely back at home, she is still diminutive but nestles comfortably in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Troubled conglomerate Toshiba on Monday said it will delay reporting its annual earnings for the past fiscal year, but warned it is on track to book a net loss of 950 billion yen ($8.4 billion). The delay comes after one of Japan’s best-known companies twice postponed its nine-month earnings before releasing unaudited results last month. The delays have stirred fears that the huge conglomerate’s shares could be delisted from the Tokyo […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AFP) – North Korea’s latest missile launch was a successful test of a new type of rocket, Pyongyang’s state media reported Monday. Sunday’s launch was of a “newly-developed mid/long-range strategic ballistic rocket, Hwasong-12,” the official KCNA news agency said, adding that leader Kim Jong-Un “personally oversaw the test-launch of the new type of rocket.” The isolated North is under multiple sets of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs, which […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – North Korea on Sunday test-fired a ballistic missile, Seoul’s military said, in an apparent test of South Korea’s new president who backs engagement with Pyongyang. The missile was launched from a site near the northwestern city of Kusong at around 5:30 am (2030 GMT Saturday) and flew about 700 kilometres (435 miles), according to the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The South and US are analysing more details about the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-In on Friday scrapped state-issued school history textbooks introduced by his ousted predecessor, saying they represented an “outdated and one-sided” view of the past, his office said. The previous Park Geun-Hye administration had introduced state-authored history textbooks at middle and high schools, arguing that some existing tomes reflected left-leaning and pro-North Korea ideologies. Park’s conservative government began publishing the new textbooks this year despite opposition […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday (May 11) received an award for the promotion of women in society by the Global Summit of Women held in Tokyo. The event in Tokyo hotel was attended by Vice President of Philippines Leni Robredo, and Vice President of Vietnam, Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh, and other high ranking women in Asia and Abe’s “Womenomics” was acclaimed as a positive movement in a country that […]
PYONGYANG, North Korea (Reuters) — North Korea Foreign Ministry on Thursday (May 11) said it had unveiled a plot attack against its leadership with a bio-chemical weapon this week, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. In a briefing to foreign envoys and its representatives in Pyongyang, North Korean deputy Foreign Minister Han Song Ryol said it will begin an “anti-terrorism mop-up operation” in their own way. A North Korean statement on May 5, […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) — Hong Kong police units were put to the test in an anti-terror drill performed in front of media and senior police on Thursday (May 11). In their ninth anti-terror exercise this year, Hong Kong police units, including more than 200 officers, responded to a mock scenario where terrorists – played by colleagues – drove a van into a crowd and held people hostage. The scenario was part of the city’s […]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — The completion date for the world’s tallest tower has been pushed back to 2019, a Saudi Arabian billionaire said Thursday, almost six years after launching the record-breaking project. Jeddah Tower is to rise more than a kilometer (almost 3,300 feet), placing it above Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. “The project was delayed… but it’ll open (in) 2019,” Prince Alwaleed bin Talal told AFP during a visit to the site beside the Red […]
The head of a school in southern India has been arrested on suspicion of raping scores of disabled girls over a period of at least four years, police said Thursday. They said complaints from two former pupils at the school for speech- and hearing-impaired girls in Tamil Nadu state had alerted them to the alleged abuse. Both are now adults and are working at the school. “We received the complaint from two victims who are […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — An earthquake rocked China’s western Xinjiang region on Thursday, killing eight people and injuring another 23 as more than 1,500 homes crumbled, state media reported. The shallow 5.4-magnitude quake struck at 5:58 am (2158 GMT Wednesday) 213 kilometers (133 miles) south-southwest of the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the US Geological Survey said. Some people were buried after their adobe homes collapsed, said Wang Fuyou, Communist Party chief of Taxkorgan […]
