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LIMA, Peru (AFP) — China’s President Xi Jinping signed new trade deals on Monday with Peru, one of its partners in its drive to boost world trade in the face of protectionist stirrings. A day after taking part in the APEC Asia-Pacific trade summit, Xi made a formal visit to the host nation, a major mineral and food exporter. He and Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in a public ceremony signed 18 agreements, including one […]
Relatives of MH370 passengers will travel to Madagascar next month in hopes of re-kindling efforts to find and recover seaborne debris from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines jet, next-of-kin association Voice370 said Monday. (AFP Video graphics)
by Karam al-Masri ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — Syrian government forces advanced quickly inside rebel-held east Aleppo on Monday, as the UN raised the alarm for nearly one million people living under siege in the war-wracked country. UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien told the Security Council that 974,080 people were now living under siege in Syria, more than double the number from six months ago. The assessment follows mounting international concern over the fate of Aleppo, […]
(REUTERS) — A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Tuesday (November 22), the Japan Meteorological Agency said, generating a tsunami that hit the same northern Pacific coast devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is currently in Argentina, said the government will move swiftly to respond to any emergencies. “We will announce any information regarding tsunami or evacuation swiftly, and will quickly gather information […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump said Monday he would move to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal the day he takes office, in line with a central campaign pledge. “I’ve asked my transition team to develop a list of executive actions we can take on day one to restore our laws and bring back our jobs,” the US president-elect said in a video message outlining priorities for his first 100 days. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A tsunami measuring one metre (3.3 feet) hit Japan’s coast at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant on Tuesday following an earthquake, operator Tokyo Electric Power said. The tsunami struck at 6:38 am (2138 GMT), a TEPCO official told a televised news conference after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the region earlier. A but TEPCO spokesman told AFP that there were no reports of any problems as a result of the wave. © […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan on Tuesday, triggering warnings of tsunami waves as high as three metres (10 feet) on the coast near the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. Public broadcaster NHK urged residents along the northeast coast to “flee immediately” to high ground, reminding listeners to heed the lessons of the “Great East Japan Earthquake”. A massive undersea quake that hit in March 2011 sent a […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The impeachment of South Korea’s embattled President Park Guen-Hye in a snowballing corruption case inched closer Monday when the main opposition party said it was examining its options. The move comes the day after prosecutors named Park a criminal suspect in a major influence-peddling case, tightening the noose on an already hugely unpopular leader. “We will immediately review the timing and methods of impeachment and set up a subcommittee to […]
PUKHRAYAN, India (AFP) — The death toll from India’s rail disaster rose to 142 on Monday after workers toiled through the night removing victims from the wreckage, with grim warnings that more bodies were trapped inside. There was little hope of finding survivors among the mangled remains of 14 carriages, which came off the tracks in northern India on Sunday in a rural district of Uttar Pradesh state. “The actual toll will still be higher […]
KANPUR, India (Reuters) — Indian rescue workers picked their way through the last of the mangled carriages of a derailed train on Monday (November 21) to pull out more bodies from a disaster that killed at least 133 people and injured more than 200. Fourteen carriages of the train, en route from Patna to Indore, derailed in the early hours of Sunday (November 20) while most of the more than 500 passengers were asleep. […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — After the APEC summit in Lima, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Argentina on Monday to bolster bilateral trade and investment ties with Latin America’s third largest economy. It will be the first visit to Buenos Aires by a Japanese prime minister in 57 years — the last one to make the trip was Abe’s grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, in 1959. Japanese companies have a big presence in the South American […]
by Andrew Beatty Joshua Howat Berger LIMA, Peru (AFP) — US President Barack Obama bid farewell to the world stage Sunday, pondering his legacy, offering advice to his successor and discussing his post-presidential life at the end of his final foreign tour. His historic presidency and charisma have made Obama a rock star on the international scene, even at times when the daily grind of politics dimmed the glow around his election as the United […]
