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PYONGYANG , North Korea (AFP) — North Korea will Friday launch its highest-level ruling party meeting in almost 40 years, with delegates set to heap praise on its nuclear arsenal as a “precious sword” amid fears of a fresh atomic test. Leader Kim Jong-Un, who was not even born when the last Workers’ Party congress was held in 1980, is expected to deliver a keynote address which will be minutely scrutinised for any policy shift […]
by Karam al-Masri ALEPPO , Syria (AFP) — Air strikes killed at least 28 civilians Thursday in a camp for the displaced in northern Syria near the Turkish border as a 48-hour ceasefire took hold in Aleppo. The truce came after fierce violence in and around Aleppo and was made possible as President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and rebel forces gave in to mounting diplomatic pressure for a pause. But as relieved civilians went out onto […]
BEIRUT , Lebanon (AFP) — A double bomb attack on Thursday in central Syria killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 40 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. State television reported that at least six people were killed and 28 seriously wounded in the suicide attack and car bombing in a square in Mukharram al-Fawqani in Homs province. The area, controlled by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, is located between the cities of […]
JERUSALEM , Israel (AFP) — Israeli air strikes hit four Hamas sites in Gaza Wednesday night, the military said, following air raids earlier in the day as tensions flared along the border of the Palestinian territory. “Overnight, in response to the ongoing attacks against Israeli forces, an IAF aircraft targeted four Hamas terrorist infrastructure sites in the northern Gaza Strip,” the military said in a statement. The Israeli army hit five Hamas operated sites earlier […]
BEIJING , China (AFP) — One of China’s top folk singers is rocking her away across disputed territory in the South China Sea, serenading hundreds of troops and construction workers stationed there, Chinese media reported Thursday. Song Zuying, who has performed with the likes of Canadian superstar Celine Dion, is part of an all-singing, all-dancing People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entertainment tour of the Spratly Islands, reports said. Footage of the troupe’s performance broadcast on Chinese […]
A tract of land with ramshackle houses and rubble surrounded by high-rise buildings in a northern corner of Shanghai is prime property — and home to some of the most stubborn people in China. It is located along the rapidly developing Suzhou creek corridor, convenient to the subway and shopping malls were floor space is priced at around $12,000 per square metre. The Guangfuli neighbourhood is a property investor’s dream because a square metre of the […]
Five Filipino candidates are vying to be president as the Philippines gets ready to hold its national elections on May 9. Aquino’s successor and former interior minister Manuel Roxas, Vice president and opposition leader Jejomar Binay, Senator Grace Poe, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Miriam Santiago are the candidates vying for the highest position in the country. Incumbent President Benigno Aquino is barred from seeking re-election due to the constitution term limit. Opinion […]
Indonesia and the Philippines on Wednesday (May 4) vowed to increase cooperation to ensure safety on the open seas. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marsudi and her Philippine counterpart Jose Rene Almendras, who visited Indonesia for the first time since taking office in March, met in Jakarta ahead of a trilateral meeting with Malaysia on May 5. Jose Rene Almendras, Philippines Foreign Secretary said and here we quote: “I also came here today to participate in the […]
NEW DELHI , India (AFP) — At least 13 people died and 53 others were injured after a bus skidded off a bridge and overturned in northeast India, media quoted police as saying. The bus was travelling from Jharkhand state to Raipur, state capital of Chhattisgarh, when it came off the road at around 10.30 pm local time (1700 GMT) on Wednesday, national news agency Press Trust of India reported. The driver saw a motorcycle […]
by Park Chan-Kyong SEOUL , South Korea (AFP) — North Korean state media on Wednesday hailed Kim Jong-Un as the “Great Sun of the 21st Century” as the country made final preparations for a rare ruling party congress seen as the young leader’s formal coronation. Getting ready for the rare gathering — the first of its kind for nearly 40 years — has involved mobilising the entire country in a 70-day campaign that only ended […]
(Reuters) Islamist militants in the southern Philippines released a video that purports to show three hostages pleading for help and a masked militant vowing to behead them if the group’s demands are not met. “I’m appealing to Canadian government, the Filipino government, friends, family, anybody who can possibly help us. If the demand is not met, we will be executed like our friend John was a few days ago.” the hostage who identified himself as […]
SHIMLA , India (AFP) — Forest fires raging in India’s Himalayan region crept perilously close to a famous British-era railway track Tuesday, as panicked residents fought off blazes threatening to engulf their homes. Dubbed the “toy train” and dotted with tiny wooden stations, the narrow-gauge Kalka-Shimla railway in Himachal Pradesh state is a UNESCO world heritage site attracting thousands of tourists each year. “Our gangmen are keeping watch over the fires and dousing the flames […]
