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(Reuters) — Korean defense ministry said on Tuesday (August 25) both North and South Korea would begin rolling back heightened military postures at noon (0300 GMT), after the two Koreas reach reached agreement early on Tuesday to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding of South Korean […]
(Reuters) — French President Francois Hollande on Monday (August 24) awarded France’s highest honour, the Legion d’honneur, to three U.S. citizens and a Briton who helped disarm a machine gun-toting suspected Islamist militant on a train last week. The award came a day after it was revealed that one of the Americans, Spencer Stone, also appeared to have saved the life of a fellow passenger. The suspect’s lawyer said on Sunday the man named by […]
INDIANA, United States of America, August 25 (Eagle News) — A freshman student in the Indiana Small State University can’t express his happiness after receiving free tuition for a semester after successfully shooting the free throw shot from the half-court in a challenge that has been conducted by said university since 2013. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
AUGUST 25 (Reuters) — South Koreans on Tuesday (August 25) welcomed the news that the two Koreas reached an agreement on Tuesday (August 25) to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding of South Korean soldiers in landmine blasts and Seoul agreed to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts, […]
AUGUST 25 (Reuters) — South Korean defense ministry said on Tuesday (August 25) both North and South Korea would begin rolling back heightened military postures at noon (0300 GMT), after the two Koreas reach reached agreement early on Tuesday to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding […]
Islamic State militants on Sunday (August 23) blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country’s antiquities chief. The temple bombing would be the first time the insurgents, who control swathes of Syria and Iraq and captured Palmyra in May, damaged monumental Roman-era ruins. A week ago, the militants beheaded Khaled Asaad, an 82-year-old scholar who worked for more […]
(Courtesy CCTV) — Chinese and Russian naval soldiers, who are taking part in the nine-day Joint Sea-2015 (II) drill, gathered at designated waters on Sunday and started the joint training. Chinese and Russian vessels left Vladivostok on Sunday morning ahead of schedule for the relevant waters. The order of departure was given on Saturday night in accordance with the plan of the drill and weather condition. “The directing team gave the order at night, […]
(Reuters) — Thailand’s police chief Somyot Poompanmuang said on Monday (August 24) Bangkok bomber suspect might still be in the country, a week after a blast killed 20 people including foreigners. The blast last Monday at one of the capital’s most famous shrines, packed with Asian visitors, will inevitably dent the tourist industry, one of the economy’s few bright spots. Economic woes could undermine the military government as it steers the country towards an […]
South Korean Defence Ministry on Monday (August 24) said their position is to deter North Korea’s provocation, as the isolated state had deployed twice the usual artillery strength at the border and had around 50 submarines away from base, the South’s ministry said. Top officials from North and South Korea negotiated through a second straight night and into Monday morning in a marathon bid to defuse tensions that have brought the peninsula to the brink […]
AUGUST 24 (Reuters) — Typhoon Goni lashed the southern islands of Ishigaki, Okinawa prefecture on Monday (August 24) registering wind gusts of up to 255.6 kilometers an hour (158.8 miles an hour) – the strongest on record, local media reported. The typhoon, called Typhoon 15 in Japan, knocked out power on the tropical resort island as 21,500 homes were left without electricity overnight, Japanese media said. Japanese media footage showed traffic lights and even small […]
AUGUST 24 (Reuters) — An explosion rocked a warehouse at a U.S. military base in Sagamihara, Japan, but there were no reports of injuries, Japanese fire officials said on Monday (August 24). The local fire department said it received a call just after midnight of an explosion at the warehouse where it said “dangerous material” is stored and sent firefighters. It added that the fire had subsided and there was no danger of it spreading […]
(Reuters) — Giant panda Mei Xiang, a star tourist draw in the U.S. capital, gave birth to a pair of cubs hours apart on Saturday (August 22), the National Zoo said. Mei Xiang gave birth to her first cub at 5:34 p.m. (2134 GMT) after her water broke about an hour beforehand, zoo officials said. About four and one-half hours later, at 10:07 p.m., a second cub arrived and appeared healthy, the zoo said. […]
