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NOVOSELITSKOYE, STAVROPOL REGION, Russia (Reuters) – Security was tightened on Monday (April 11) in Russia’s southern Stavropol region after three men including at least one suicide bomber attacked a rural police station. Russia’s Interior Ministry said police in the affected area had been put on a high state of alert, and security measures were tightened at airports and railway stations in the region. Soldiers and police in the village blocked streets in the village with […]
NOVOSELITSKOYE,STAVROPOL REGION, Russia (Reuters) – Three men attacked a rural police station in southern Russia on Monday (April 11) including at least one suicide bomber, the country’s Interior Ministry said, saying police in the affected area had been put on a high state of alert. The attack took place in the village of Novoselitskoye in Russia’s Stavropol region, close to the volatile majority-Muslim North Caucasus area, where Islamist extremists intent upon carving out a breakaway […]
NANGARHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 12 army recruits on a bus in eastern Afghanistan on Monday (April 11) officials said, hours after a similar attack killed two people in the capital Kabul. The latest blast hit a bus in the Sorkh Rud district of Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan. Twelve bodies and at least 38 wounded were taken to the main hospital in Jalalabad, the principal […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AFP) — Group of Seven foreign ministers on Monday expressed concern about maritime disputes in Asia, as worries grow in the region over China’s territorial and military ambitions. Beijing lays claim to almost all of the South China Sea despite conflicting partial claims from Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines. It has constructed artificial islands in the area in recent months as it asserts its sovereignty. Japan, meanwhile, has its own dispute […]
Taiwan accused China Monday of kidnapping eight Taiwanese who had been cleared of criminal charges by a court in Kenya, and angrily demanded their immediate return from the mainland. The alleged abduction — described by Taiwan’s foreign ministry as “illegal” and “uncivilised” — posed a potential challenge to president-elect Tsai Ing-wen, who takes office next month. Kenyan authorities in November 2014 arrested 28 Taiwanese along with 49 other ethnic Chinese on charges of illegally entering […]
SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – A woman and her child were rescued after a three-storey building collapsed in eastern China’s Shanghai on Monday (April 11). According to state broadcaster CCTV, the incident took place at around 1:25 p.m. (0525 GMT) in Songjiang district, an area southwest of downtown. As of 8 p.m. (1200 GMT), one spot in the ruins had shown signs of life and rescuers were moving debris with hands, CCTV said. Sensors and sniffer […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – China urged on Monday (April 11) the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies to take an attitude of seeking truth in handling issues relevant to East and South China Seas, after G7 opposed provocation in the region, where China is locked in territorial disputes with nations including the Philippines, Vietnam and Japan. In the latest verbal exchange on who controls the vital trade waterways, China said it had not seen the […]
KUALA Lumpur, Malaysia (AFP) — More than 250 Malaysian schools were closed on Monday due to a heatwave brought on by the El Niño weather phenomenon which is severely affecting food production and causing chronic water shortages in many countries. Authorities ordered schools in the states of Perlis and Pahang to shut after temperatures soared above 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over a 72-hour period, according to local reports. The education ministry said the […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday (April 11) ahead of a visit to the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park. Kerry will be the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Hiroshima’s atomic bomb museum and pay respects at a memorial for victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack, raising expectations that President Barack Obama may make an historic visit next month. “We would like to […]
China has shipped its first self-designed core kit of liquefied natural gas to the Arctic from Qingdao City, Shandong Province on Saturday. This is the first time China has transported a core process module of liquefied natural gas overseas. It will be shipped to the Yamal L-N-G, a liquefied natural gas plant located deep in the Arctic Circle. China has undertaken design and manufacturing of 36 process modules from the plant. “It is the world‘s […]
G7 Foreign ministers meeting kicks off in the central Japanese city of Hiroshima. Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven Industrialised Nations (G7) began arriving in the central Japanese city of Hiroshima on Sunday (April 10) for a two day meeting. They were greeted at the entrance of the Grand Prince Hotel in Hiroshima by Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife Yuko. The first guests to arrive were French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and […]
RYAZAN REGION, Russia (Reuters) – Spaceflight enthusiasts in the Russia’s Ryazan region, south of Moscow, used the surface of a frozen lake to pay tribute to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, ahead of the anniversary of his historic flight. Video of the project, filmed by its creator Alexei Busarov and friend Oleg Butsky, shows several people clearing out paths of snow on the width of the lake, to outline the famous cosmonaut’s portrait. The […]
