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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Nuclear-armed North Korea on Wednesday fired a suspected missile into the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s defense ministry said. “North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the Sea of Japan this morning from (the eastern port of) Sinpo,” the ministry said in a statement. If confirmed to be a missile, it would be the latest such launch by Pyongyang and will fuel international concerns about the isolated regime’s military ambitions. It […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — A suspected gas attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun in northwestern Syria on Tuesday killed 58 civilians, including 11 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. Dozens more were suffering the effects of the attack, with medical sources reporting respiratory problems and symptoms including fainting, vomiting and foaming at the mouth, the monitor said.
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Fourteen people have died as a result of a blast that ripped through a train carriage on the Saint Petersburg metro, Russia’s health minister said Tuesday. “We can state today that 14 people have died,” Veronika Skvortsova told journalists, adding that 49 people are still hospitalised after the explosion on Monday afternoon. Anti-terror authorities had earlier reported a death toll of 11. © Agence France-Presse
BISHKEK, Russia (AFP) — A suicide bomber from Kyrgyzstan was behind the explosion that killed 11 people and injured dozens more in the Saint Petersburg metro, security services in the Central Asian country said Tuesday. “The suicide bomber in the Saint Petersburg metro was a Kyrgyz national Akbarjon Djalilov… born in 1995,” a spokesperson for the country’s security services told AFP. “It is probable that he acquired Russian nationality,” he said. Russia’s Investigative Committee said […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba and Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Xuanyou Kong held a bilateral talk in Tokyo on Tuesday (April 4). The two vice foreign ministers, along with their government officials, exchanged words about North Korea’s nuclear tests, according to Japanese media. A preparation for a possible bilateral between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the July G20 in Germany is also expected […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has warned it will retaliate if the global community ramps up sanctions over its latest round of weapons tests. The warning comes as President Donald Trump threatened the United States was prepared to go it alone in bringing Pyongyang to heel if China did not step in. The isolated state has quickened its missile program in recent months, with a volley of tests it says are putting it […]
ZHUHAI, China (CCTV) — The construction of a primary underground tunnel of the cross-sea HK-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in Zhuhai City of south China’s Guangsong Province was linked up on Monday, marking a milestone toward completing one of the world’s longest bridges. Construction of the Gongbei Tunnel has been one of the most difficult parts of building the 55-kilometer bridge. The 2,741-meter tunnel connects Zhuhai City to the main bridge. “The completion means the key techniques we […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — Moon Jae-in, a South Korean human rights lawyer and a top aide to a former leader who was an advocate of a policy of engagement with North Korea, won the liberal Democratic Party primary on Monday (April 3), establishing him as the clear frontrunner for president. Moon has been leading in opinion polls among candidates for the May 9 presidential election to succeed Park Geun-hye, who was dismissed on March […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United States believes the Syrian people do not want President Bashar al-Assad to remain in power and does not accept that he could stand in elections, Ambassador Nikki Haley said Monday. Haley told a news conference that Assad is a “war criminal,” “a hindrance to peace for a long time” and that his treatment of Syrians was “disgusting.” The ambassador was asked about whether US Secretary of State […]
by Marina KORENEVA SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Eleven people were killed and dozens more injured as an explosion rocked the Saint Petersburg metro Monday, with the Kremlin saying it bore “all the hallmarks of an attack.” Authorities shut down the metro system in Russia’s second city for several hours as security services said they had also defused a bomb at a second metro station. Russia’s Investigative Committee said it was probing an “act of […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea, Japan and the United States held a joint naval exercise Monday aimed at countering missile threats from North Korean submarines, Seoul’s defense ministry said, amid mounting concerns over the hermit state’s weapons program. Pyongyang is on a quest to develop a long-range missile capable of hitting the US mainland with a nuclear warhead, and has so far staged five nuclear tests, two of them last year. The three-day […]
XINJIANG, China (CCTV) — Two successive landslides hit northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region over the past weekend, interrupting local traffic and killing livestock. The two landslides happened within less than nine hours. On Saturday night, the first landslide hit Yining County around 18:00. Large amounts of debris blocked many major roads. The second landslide occurred in the same county at 02:00 of Sunday, burying 397 animals. The local government in Yining County evacuated residents […]
