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BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday (March 16) that it’s open to proposals in dealing with Pyongyang after United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the escalating threat from North Korea’s nuclear program showed a clear need for a “new approach.” Two decades of diplomatic and other efforts, including aid given to North Korea by the US, had failed to achieve the goal of denuclearizing Pyongyang, Tillerson said on Thursday […]
by Fulya OZERKAN / Stuart WILLIAMS Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused the European Union of starting a “crusade” against Islam and said his country was no longer friends with The Netherlands, further souring relations. Turkey and the EU are locked in their most explosive row in years after Germany and The Netherlands blocked Turkish ministers from campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote in an April referendum on […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 42 people were killed and dozens more wounded on Thursday in air strikes on a village mosque in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “The raids by unidentified warplanes targeted a mosque in Aleppo province during evening prayers, killing 42 people, most of them civilians,” said the head of the Britain-based Observatory Rami Abdel Rahman. “More than 100 people were wounded,” he said, adding that many […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi authorities said Thursday that more than 150,000 people have fled fighting in and around west Mosul since security forces launched an operation to retake it from jihadists last month. The International Organization for Migration released displacement figures on Wednesday indicating that nearly 100,000 had fled, but those statistics included fewer people residing outside of camps. According to Iraq’s ministry of migration and displaced, 152,857 people have fled the west Mosul […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that two decades of efforts to stop North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have not worked and that a new approach is needed. “I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years to bring North Korea to the point of denuclearization have failed,” he told a press conference with Japan’s foreign minister. “In the face of […]
Pakistan launches its first census in nearly two decades, with security high as thousands of enumerators backed by the military began the enormous, politically-charged count. https://youtu.be/iL8XgnF-1Lk
By Patrick Baert BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday warned the United States against starting a trade war while expressing optimism that the world’s two largest economies could keep relations steady despite Donald Trump-era frictions. “We don’t want to see any trade war breaking out between the two countries. That wouldn’t make our trade fairer,” Li told reporters at a press conference closing China’s annual parliamentary session. “No matter what bumps […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday ordered ousted president Park Geun-Hye to appear before them next week for questioning over the corruption scandal that triggered her dramatic downfall. Park, who was dismissed by the Constitutional Court last Friday, will be required to attend a prosecutors’ office in Seoul next Tuesday, a spokesperson said. A criminal suspect in the scandal, Park had repeatedly refused to make herself available for questioning by […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — More than 800 health workers have died in “acts of war crimes” in Syria since 2011, in hospital bombings, shootings, torture and executions perpetrated mainly by government-backed forces, researchers said Wednesday. The Syrian government and its ally, Russia, have turned the violent withholding of healthcare into a weapon of war, according to an analysis published in The Lancet medical journal. This “weaponization” of healthcare, […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) – Nepal police Tuesday demolished the largest remaining settlement of people displaced by a powerful earthquake that struck nearly two years ago, a move that will leave hundreds homeless. Around 100 families were still living in the camp in Kathmandu when police wearing riot gear used bulldozers to flatten the bamboo and tarpaulin structures. “The gods will curse the government. We don’t have our home and can’t rent a room from our […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean prosecutors will summon former president Park Geun-Hye for questioning as a criminal suspect, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. Park has been named as an accomplice to the secret confidante at the heart of a corruption and influence-peddling scandal that triggered her dramatic downfall, Choi Soon-Sil. Confirmation of Park’s impeachment by the nation’s top court last week stripped her of immunity from criminal prosecution. “We will decide Wednesday when […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia will deport 50 North Koreans for overstaying their visas, the deputy prime minister said Tuesday, in an apparent exception to a departure ban after the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam. The killing of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un last month in Malaysia with VX nerve agent triggered an angry standoff between Kuala Lumpur and Pyongyang that has seen them expel each other’s ambassador and refuse to let their citizens […]
