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by Stuart WILLIAMS ISTANBUL ,Turkey (AFP) — A car bomb on Sunday struck the Turkish city of Gaziantep, a major refugee hub near the Syrian border, killing at least two policemen and wounding 22 people as the country reels from a succession of militant attacks. On a day of violence dubbed “Black Sunday” by local media, three Turkish soldiers died in a separate attack in the province of Mardin to the east, in an ambush […]
by Ernesto TOVAR CARACAS , Venezuela (AFP) — With their country gripped by an economic crisis, Venezuelans lost half an hour of sleep Sunday as their clocks were set forward to save power on President Nicolas Maduro’s orders. At 2:30 am local time, the oil-dependent South American nation shifted its time ahead by 30 minutes — to four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time. The move, announced in mid-April, is part of a package of measures […]
by Gregory FEIFER WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Donald Trump hit out hard at Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz Sunday, sounding unapologetic two days before a key primary in Indiana he says will decide the Republican presidential race. A new poll ahead of the winner-take-all vote Tuesday put the Republican frontrunner far in front of Cruz, who is hoping the Midwestern state will act as a Trump firewall. Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Trump […]
(REUTERS) — Workers across Asia were on the streets on Sunday (May 1) observing May Day with rallies calling for higher wages and better working conditions. In South Korea, tens of thousands carrying banners and chanting slogans gathered in Seoul’s City Hall Square, protesting the government’s labour reform plans. “Just as workers of previous generations fought for the right to an eight-hour day at the risk of their lives 120 years ago, we are […]
(Reuters) China’s relations with Japan should be based on cooperation not confrontation, China’s foreign minister told his Japanese counterpart on Saturday, adding that China would judge Japan’s desire to improve ties depending on its actions. China, the world’s second-largest economy, and Japan, the third-largest, have a difficult political history, with ties strained by the legacy of Japan’s World War Two aggression and conflicting claims over a group of uninhabited East China Sea islets. Ties have […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Rescue teams were searching for survivors after a seven-storey building collapsed in the Kenyan capital Nairobi Friday due to flooding, the Red Cross said, with 44 people already pulled alive from the rubble. A spokeswoman for the Kenya Red Cross could not confirm local media reports that at least three people were killed. “It is too early to speak about dead people, we don’t have that information,” Arnolda Shiundu told AFP. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China has denied the US aircraft carrier USS Stennis and accompanying naval vessels permission to make a port call in Hong Kong, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday, April 29. It was not immediately known what prompted the Chinese action, but it comes amid growing tension between the two countries over Beijing’s moves to assert its claims to much of the South China Sea. “We were recently informed that a request […]
BEIJING , China (AFP) — China and Russia on Friday rapped US plans to put a missile defense system on the Korean peninsula, less than 24 hours after Pyongyang twice tested projectiles thought to be capable of reaching American territory. A series of missile tests and nuclear blasts by North Korea have pushed Seoul into talks with Washington about deploying the US’s sophisticated Theater High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD), which fires projectiles to smash […]
NEW DELHI , India (AFP) — More tigers have been killed in India already this year than in the whole of 2015, a census showed Friday, raising doubts about the country’s anti-poaching efforts. The Wildlife Protection Society of India, a conservation charity, said 28 of the endangered beasts had been poached by April 26, three more than last year. Tiger meat and bones are used in traditional Chinese medicine and fetch high prices. “The stats […]
SYDNEY,Australia (AFP) — An Australian woman working for a charity in Afghanistan has been kidnapped, the country’s foreign minister said Friday. Julie Bishop said Canberra was working to secure the release of Katherine Jane Wilson, but insisted Australia does not pay ransoms for hostages. Wilson, who also uses the first name Kerry, was grabbed in the city of Jalalabad, close to the border with Pakistan, on Thursday, a government official in the area told AFP. […]
Republican front-runner Donald Trump vowed to seek better relations with Russia and China if elected president in November and said he would make U.S. allies bear more of the financial burden for their defense. In a major speech, Trump delivered a withering critique of Barack Obama’s foreign policy, saying the Democratic president has let China take advantage of the United States and has failed to defeat Islamic State militants. Reuters
