Pakistan’s airport resumes operations after a night-long battle which ended with 30 dead including all the attackers.
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China dismayed over Vietnam Philippine games in Spratlys
China expressed dismay at the friendly games held by Vietnam and Philippines in one of the disputed islands in the Spratlys.
DFA confirms 17 Filipinos in hijacked oil tanker in New Guinea
The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that there are 17 Filipino seamen in the hi-jacked Greek oil tanker off the coast of Guinea.
China says Vietnam, Philippines’ mingling on disputed isle a ‘farce’
(Reuters) – China denounced Vietnam and the Philippines on Monday for getting together on a disputed island in the South China Sea to play soccer and volleyball, calling it “a clumsy farce” and demanded both countries stop causing trouble. The comments by a foreign ministry spokeswoman were China’s first response to the gathering on the Vietnamese-held island of Southwest Cay on Sunday. Philippine naval officials described the meeting of soldiers from the two sides as […]
Spain’s King Juan Carlos abdicates
Thousands of anti-monarchy protesters rallied demanding a referendum to decide whether Spaniards want a monarchy or a republic. Following the historic news announced on Monday (June 02) that, after almost four decades on the throne, King Juan Carlos is abdicating to his heir, Prince Felipe, thousands of anty-monarchy activists took to the streets waving the red, yellow and purple republican flag and chanting slogans against the Spanish royal family. Kathy Ferrer and Angela Garcia reports from […]
Pakistan officials say airport seige has ended; death toll rises to 26
Pakistani authorities said that the situation in the airport in Karachi is secured after a night-long battle with heavily-armed suicide bombers. Pakistani Taliban promptly claimed responsibility for the attack.
Five dead in Las Vegas shootings
Two police officers in Las Vegas were shot dead in a rampage that left 1 civilian death as well as 2 of the suspects.
More than 60 people killed in wave of car bombs across Baghdad
By Kareem Raheem and Kamal Naama (Reuters) — A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical sources said. In total, there were a dozen blasts in mainly Shi’ite districts of the capital, the deadliest of which occurred in Bayaa, where a car bomb left 23 people dead, many of them young men playing billiards. “I was about […]
Ukraine’s new leader stands up to Moscow over Crimea and Europe
(Reuters) – Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko said his country would never give up Crimea and would not compromise on its path towards closer ties with Europe, spelling out a defiant message to Russia in his inaugural speech on Saturday. The 48-year-old billionaire took the oath of office before parliament, buoyed by Western support but facing a crisis in relations with Russia as a separatist uprising seethes in the east of his country. Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in […]
China sends more ships to Vietnam waters
HANOI (PNA/VNS) — Vietnamese Fisheries Surveillance Department (VSFD) staff has reported high-capacity Chinese vessels in waters around the Haiyang Shiyou-981 rig, which is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters. They said the vessels had bulbous bows and were accompanied by two Chinese coast-guard ships. Together with Chinese fishing vessels, they kept on hampering Vietnamese vessels, occasionally throwing stones and bottles. China still has a fleet of between 110-115 ships around the rig, including about 40 coast-guard […]
At least 58 people die in flash floods in Afghanistan
(Reuters) — At least 58 people have been killed and many more are missing in flash floods that hit parts of northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai’s office said on Saturday (June 7). The floods were caused by heavy rain that fell overnight in the Gozargah-e Noor district of the northern Baghlan province. Residents of the flooded area said many people have lost their homes. “Some 500 houses were destroyed in these floods and nearly 60 people have been killed also […]
Dozens killed in massacre in eastern Congo; pregnant women among victims
(Reuters) – Up to 37 people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of South Kivu on Saturday in an attack that government officials blamed on a dispute over cattle. The victims, who included several pregnant women, had been shot, stabbed or burned inside their homes. A Reuters cameraman on the scene in the village of Mutarule counted 37 bodies, some of them lying inside a village church. Residents […]
