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BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China expressed concerns on Wednesday (March 9) over the United States’ plan to base long-range bombers in Australia, and claimed that such cooperation should not target the interests of third parties. The deployments could include B-1 bombers and an expansion of B-52 bomber missions, said Lt. Col. Damien Pickart, a spokesman for the U.S. Air Force in the Pacific, stressing that discussions were continuing and no decisions had yet been reached. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Manila will lease five military planes from Japan to patrol Philippine-claimed waters and outcrops in the disputed South China Sea, President Benigno Aquino announced Wednesday. He said the leasing the TC-90 aircraft was part of government efforts to protect Philippine territory, which also included previously stated plans to acquire fighter jets and transport aircraft. “Also lined up this year… is the lease of five of Japan’s TC-90 training aircraft that would […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its eastern coast on Thursday, fueling a build-up in military tensions after its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch. South Korea’s defence ministry said the two missiles were fired around 5:20 am (2020 GMT Wednesday) and flew some 500 kilometres (300 miles), before landing in the East Sea (Sea of Japan) off the North Korean port city of […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday recalled Venezuela’s top diplomat from the United States in protest at the renewal of a year-old US decree calling his country a security threat. “Enough arrogance, double standards, condescension and intrigue,” the leftist leader said as he announced he was summoning charge d’affaires Maximilien Arvelaiz back to Caracas. “Bolivar’s Venezuela deserves respect.” © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
Washington, United States (AFP)—The slump in Chinese growth and its nascent economic transition was the key factor in a sharp slowdown last year in global trade, the World Bank said Wednesday. Trade, as measured by total merchandise import volumes, rose only 1.7 percent in 2015, down from 3.0 percent in 2014, the Bank said in a new report. That stall in trade, one of the key drivers of economic growth in recent years, was mostly […]
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP)—Thirty people have now died in the collapse of a five-storey building under construction in an upmarket area of Nigeria’s biggest city Lagos, a rescue official said on Wednesday. “We have so far recovered 30 corpses and the number of those rescued alive still stands at 13,” Ibrahim Farinloye, from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), told AFP. A total of 12 bodies were recovered since rescuers resumed work Wednesday morning, he added. […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Billionaire Donald Trump notched a pair of easy victories Tuesday in the Republican presidential nomination race, as Democrat Hillary Clinton suffered a surprise loss to Bernie Sanders in one of the two major states at stake. Trump shrugged off a barrage of negative advertising and intense efforts by the party establishment to derail his White House campaign to win primaries in Michigan and Mississippi, signaling to his […]
BEIJING, China – According to China’s Foreign Ministry, they will not tolerate what they perceive is the meddling of the United States of America in their claimed territories in the West Philippine Sea and denied accusations of militarization in the said area. China also declared that since 2006 they have consistently held that they will not follow the ruling of the United Nations arbitral tribunal regarding the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea. (Eagle […]
(Reuters) — Time has done little to heal the pain of Masako Sugawara, 70, who lost three of her grandchildren and her husband to the tsunami disaster in northern Japan five years ago. When the magnitude-9.0 earthquake hit her hometown of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, her husband Yoshikazu, then 68, rushed out to the nearby school to pick up 9-year-old Yue, 5-year-old Yui and 5-year-old Kazuki. They were taking care of their children’s kids […]
by Ines Bel Aiba and Mounir Souissi https://youtu.be/12XkKXhWsBE TUNIS, Tunisia (AFP) — Tunisian forces killed five “terrorists” in an operation near the Libyan border late Tuesday, the interior ministry said, a day after a deadly raid the government has described as an unprecedented assault by the Islamic State group. The swoop by the army and security forces came after 17 suspects were arrested earlier in a manhunt following Monday’s dawn attacks in the border town […]
by Dhaou Maatoug BEN Guerdane, Tunisia (AFP) — Tunisian forces repelled a jihadist assault Monday on a town near the Libyan border, killing 36 assailants in what authorities said was a thwarted effort to establish an Islamic emirate. Eleven members of the security forces and seven civilians were also killed in Ben Guerdane in what President Beji Caid Essebsi condemned as an “unprecedented” jihadist attack. It prompted authorities to close the frontier and order a nighttime […]
BEIJING, China (CCTV) — There are other countries than China to be accused of militarizing the South China Sea, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Beijing on Tuesday, during a press conference held on the sidelines of the national legislature annual session. Wang made the remarks in response to a reporter’s question about China’s building of defense facilities on islands and reefs in the South China Sea. He first reiterated China’s sovereignty over the […]
