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by Harumi OZAWA Tokyo, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo residents voted Sunday for a new governor tasked with preparing for the problem-plagued 2020 Olympics, after financial scandals forced the last two leaders of the sprawling metropolis to quit. The Japanese capital’s troubled preparations for the summer Olympics, especially the soaring costs, will be the major challenge facing the winner. Euphoria in 2013 at securing the right to host sport’s marquee event has given way to frustration […]
by Stuart WILLIAMS Raziye AKKOC ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday told the EU and US to “mind your own business” after the West expressed alarm over the growing crackdown against suspected coup plotters, as a court placed 17 journalists under arrest. Turkey has detained more than 18,000 people over the coup which Ankara blames on the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, with the relentless crackdown sparking warnings from Brussels that […]
by Ludovic EHRET BEIJING, China (AFP) — China and Russia will hold joint naval exercises in the South China Sea in September, Beijing’s defense ministry said Thursday, after an international tribunal invalidated the Asian giant’s extensive claims in the area. The drills will be carried out in the “relevant sea and air of the South China Sea”, defense ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told reporters at a monthly briefing. With international diplomatic tensions mounting and Washington […]
CILACAP, Indonesia (AFP) – by Muhammad Azka Indonesia on Thursday rejected mounting international pressure and desperate pleas from relatives to halt the execution of 14 drug convicts who are expected to imminently face the firing squad. The group, including foreigners from Nigeria, Pakistan, India and Zimbabwe as well as Indonesians, have been placed in isolation on a prison island where Jakarta carries out executions. Authorities stepped up preparations, with ambulances seen transporting coffins over to the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Hawaiian Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Tokyo, its second such incident in Japan this month, an official said Thursday. Flight HA 442, which departed the northern Japanese city of Sapporo for Honolulu, made an emergency landing at Narita airport just outside the Japanese capital at 10:53 pm Wednesday (1353 GMT). The pilot cited an abnormality with the Boeing 767’s hydraulics system, said an official at Narita International Airport […]
VIENTIANE, Laos (AFP) – The United States warned North Korea Tuesday that it faces “real consequences” over its internationally condemned nuclear and missile tests, which have inflamed tensions in East Asia. “Together we are determined… to make absolutely certain that DPRK (North Korea) understands that there are real consequences for these actions,” US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of Asian nations in Laos. Tensions have soared since Pyongyang carried […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least 19 people were killed in Japan when a knife-wielding man went on a rampage at a care centre for the mentally disabled early Tuesday, officials said. Another 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously, in the attack in Sagamihara city, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Tokyo, a local fire department spokesman said. A 26-year-old man who said he was a former employee of the centre later turned himself in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Some 15 people died and 45 were injured at a care center for the disabled in Japan Tuesday when a former employee went on a knife rampage before turning himself in to police, officials and media said. The attack began when the man, aged in his 20s, entered the facility in the early hours of the morning, police said. He later appeared at a nearby police station and admitted to officers: […]
Southeast Asian foreign ministers met with their Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Monday (July 25) in an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-China ministerial meeting in the Laotian capital. The meeting was the first since the U.N.-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration handed an emphatic legal victory to the Philippines in the dispute this month. The ruling by the court in The Hague denied China’s sweeping claims in the strategic seaway, through which more than $5 […]
China’s state councillor Yang Jiechi met U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice in Beijing on Monday (July 25). Yang and Rice shook hands before sitting down for talks at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Both sides said they would like to deepen cooperation between China and the United States, and looked forward to the G20 summit in Hangzhou this September. Rice is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later in the day […]
North Korea opened a zoo and nature museum in Pyongyang on Sunday (July 24). Video provided to Reuters by the North’s official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, showed North Korean students and officials, including the state’s premier Pak Pong Ju and vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Choe Thae Bok, attending the opening ceremony of the central zoo and nature museum. In the footage, North Korean visitors […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysia’s coast guard said Monday they had retrieved eight bodies after a boat capsized off the southern state of Johor at the weekend with another 20 people believed to be missing. Local media reported that the boat carrying 62 people — all Indonesians and thought to be illegal immigrants — capsized due to strong waves late on Saturday night. So far, 34 passengers have been rescued and a search was […]
