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JUNE 1 (Reuters) — President Barack Obama said on Monday (June 1) that land reclamation projects in the South China Sea are unproductive and called for an end to aggressive action in the region. “We think that land reclamation, aggressive actions by any party in that area are counterproductive,” Obama said in a town-hall discussion at the White House with a group of young leaders from Southeast Asian nations. “China is going to be successful. […]
JUNE 2 (Reuters) — A passenger ship carrying 458 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, sank in the Yangtze River in a storm late on Monday (June 1) and only about 20 had been rescued so far, state media said, in what could be one of China’s worst disasters for years. Some passengers are still alive inside the ship, the micro blog of the official People’s Daily newspaper said. Chinese President Xi Jinping has […]
JUNE 1 (Reuters) — Vietnam’s deputy defense minister said on Saturday (May 30) that reports China had placed mobile artillery weapons on a reclaimed island in the disputed South China Sea were, if true, were a very worrying development. “If it has actually happened it is a very bad sign for what is already a very complicated situation in the South China Sea,” General Nguyen Chi Vinh told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines […]
JUNE 21 (Reuters) — South Korea on Sunday (May 31) confirmed that 15 South Koreans have been infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus. “Since the first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was confirmed on May 20, we have now confirmed that a total 15 people have MERS,” South Korea’s Minister of Health and Welfare Moon Hyung-pyo told reporters. The first man was diagnosed with the disease on Wednesday (May 20) […]
BEIJING, Philippines (Eagle News) – China reacted against the comments made by United States of America regarding the disputed territories in West Philippine Sea. China added that the United States should stop using challenging statements to stop the spread of chaos in the region. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, Vince Alvin Villarin)
MAY 29 (Reuters) — An overcrowded colony of about 1,000 koalas in Australia is being assessed this week for possible ill health, in a survey that could lead to a cull, raising objections from animal welfare lobbyists. Australian media reported that the Victorian state government is concerned many of the koalas may be undernourished because the colony at Cape Otway has grown even as the supply of the koalas’ staple diet of manna gum leaves has […]
MAY 29 (Reuters) — Car bombs exploded in the parking lots of two heavily fortified five-star hotels in central Baghdad late on Thursday (May 28), killing at least 10 people, police and medical sources said. A further 30 people were wounded in the blasts, which were around seven minutes apart. The first bomb targeted the Babylon hotel, where government officials often hold meetings and news conferences, and the second hit the Meridian. Iraqi authorities lifted […]
Hundreds of people fled areas near Texas rivers that overflowed their banks on Thursday as the state reeled from severe storms this week that killed at least 16 people, flooded cities and set a record for the wettest month. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch on Thursday stretching from south of San Antonio to Dallas, through Oklahoma, where severe weather this week killed an additional six people, and into Kansas. Thunderstorms pelted […]
The transit system in the nation’s capital on Thursday (May 28) suspended all “issue-oriented” advertisements after getting a request to allow a Metro subway ad featuring a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad. The ban, approved unanimously by the board of directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), prohibits political, religious and advocacy ads through the end of the year. The WMATA had been asked by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) to run […]
The Syrian army has pulled back from the northwestern city of Ariha after a coalition of insurgent groups seized the last city in Idlib province in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border that was still held by the government. A coalition of rebel groups called Jaish al Fateh, or Conquest Army, said it had taken over the city. Syria’s al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front is a major part of the coalition. The coalition said it […]
(Reuters) The corruption charges engulfing world soccer’s governing body have heaped shame and humiliation on the game, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Thursday, although he flatly rejected calls to resign over the widening scandal. With FIFA facing the worst crisis in its 111-year history, Michel Platini, who heads Europe’s soccer confederation UEFA, said he had told Blatter to go “with tears in my eyes”, but the 79-year-old had refused. “I said, ‘I’m asking you […]
(Reuters) — High water levels caused damage near Lake Texoma in Bryan County, Oklahoma on Wednesday (May 27). Water rose past 640 feet (195km) and is now covering Cartwright bridge, according to reports. The bridge was rebuilt following a flood in 2007 and local media reports that officials said it wasn’t supposed to flood again. . The high water levels come as torrential rains battered Oklahoma and Texas, where at least 15 people have been […]
