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Torrential rains brought by Typhoon Chan-Hom have wreaked havoc in many parts of east China’s Zhejiang Province for the past two days, including causing severe flooding, landslides and damaging many roads. A total of 20 counties in the province reported more than 100 millimeters of rainfall during a 36-hour period. In the coast city of Zhoushan, where the typhoon made landfall on Saturday afternoon, the persistent downpour led to knee-deep floodwaters in the low-lying […]
JULY 10 (Reuters) — Filipino boxing superstar Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao visited an Indonesian prison on Friday (July 10) to meet a Filipina woman on death row for drug trafficking, hoping to draw attention to her case and get her sentence commuted. Mary Jane Veloso won a last-minute reprieve from execution in April this year, after officials in Manila asked Indonesian President Joko Widodo to let her give evidence in an investigation into a network accused […]
(REUTERS) Thai Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha insisted on Thursday (July 9) that Bangkok was only a middle country and the conflict should be resolved between Ankara and Beijing, after it confirmed it had forcibly returned nearly 100 Uighur migrants to China. “We are not part of the conflict so please stop trying to get us involved with all of the conflicts. We are a middle country, no matter the case, we have to follow […]
(REUTERS) The number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries has passed 4 million, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday (July 9). UNHCR said that the total was on course to reach 4.27 million by the end of 2015. Some 630,000 Syrians are now living in Jordan, according to the UNHCR figures. But having escaped their war-torn homes, many of the refugees have found their new lives a struggle. According to the UNHCR […]
(REUTERS) Greece is a small part of the world economy, and its possible exit from the euro zone should have limited impact on the rest of the world, the IMF’s chief economist said on Thursday, though he warned similar crises could happen in other countries. Greece is racing to find a last-minute third bailout from its IMF and European Union creditors to avoid bankruptcy and exit from the euro zone. “In a world in which […]
(REUTERS) European Council President Donald Tusk joined on Thursday (July 9) growing international calls for Greece to be granted debt restructuring as part of any new loan deal if it delivers convincing reforms to avert imminent bankruptcy. The call was an implicit challenge to Germany, Athens’ biggest creditor, which has so far ruled out any write-offs as illegal and taken a restrictive view of reprofiling the debt to help Greece over a major repayment […]
(Reuters) — Twenty-five people were killed on Tuesday (July 07) after a suicide bomber, suspected of belonging to Boko Haram, attacked a crowd in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria. The attack took place in the compound of a local government building where people had gathered to greet a newly-appointed head administrator. There were conflicting reports as to whether the bomber was male or female. In a separate attack, witnesses and a military source said […]
(REUTERS) The U.S. Army plans to cut 40,000 troops over the next two years, affecting all its domestic and foreign posts, USA Today reported on Tuesday (July 7), saying the Army also planned to cut 17,000 civilian employees. The cuts would reduce the active-duty Army from its current size of about 490,000 soldiers to about 450,000, its smallest number since before the United States entered World War Two. The troop reductions were initially announced […]
(Reuters) Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pleaded in the European Parliament on Wednesday for a fair deal to keep his country in the euro zone after EU leaders gave him five days to come up with reforms. “I honestly believe that it’s the sovereign right of any government to decide to increase taxation on profit-making businesses and not affect the lowest possible pensions and cut back further there to achieve those objectives,” Tsipras told the […]
(Reuters) — Greek pensioners queued outside banks in Athens once again on Wednesday (July 8) to withdraw their pensions as fears grew that the country’s cash reserves would soon run dry. The scenes have been repeated outside 1,000 bank branches across Greece since banks were closed and capital controls imposed on June 29. Banks were only opened during the last week to pensioners who do not have credit or debit cards. Other people stood in […]
(Reuters) — A pilot of a U.S. military aircraft was rescued on Tuesday (July 7) after safely ejecting from his fighter jet that had collided with a small plane in midair over South Carolina. The collision between the fighter jet and a Cessna C-150 occurred at around 11 a.m. near Moncks Corner, north of Charleston, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. The two people aboard the Cessna were both killed, a spokesman for […]
JULY 8 (Reuters) — China said on Tuesday (July 7) that it opposed the arbitration case brought up by the Philippines against Beijing over territorial disputes in South China Sea. Manila has sent a legal team of experts and high ranking officials in the Hague this week to fight in an unprecedented arbitration case under the United Nations’ Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Philippine foreign ministry said. It said Philippines will present […]
