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(Reuters) – China on Saturday called US criticism of an approach by one of its jets to a US Navy patrol plane off the Chinese coast earlier this week “completely groundless” and said its pilot had maintained a safe distance from the US aircraft. The strongly-worded statement attributed to Ministry of National Defense spokesman Yang Yujun was a response to a diplomatic complaint the Pentagon filed with Beijing on Friday. The complaint concerned an August 19 encounter about […]
(Reuters) – An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude shook the San Francisco Bay Area early on Sunday, waking residents but not causing major damage, according to initial reports. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake’s epicenter was eight km (five miles) northwest of the town of American Canyon, on the northern edge of San Francisco Bay. Police dispatchers in San Francisco and Oakland said there were no reports of reports of major damage. Several people on […]
(Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Palestinian civilians on Sunday to leave immediately any site where militants are operating, one day after Israel took the Gaza war to a new level by flattening a 13-storey apartment tower. Israeli aircraft first fired a non-explosive rocket at the building, a sign to residents to get out, before attacking it on Saturday. Seventeen people were wounded in the strike on the structure, which Israel said had housed […]
MANILA, Aug. 24 (PNA) — A low pressure area (LPA) spotted in Northern Luzon has already dissipated but another LPA off in eastern Visayas continues to be monitored, the state weather bureau said on Sunday. In an interview, PAGASA weather forecaster Fernando Cada said the LPA in Northern Luzon dissipated around 3 p.m. after hitting landmass. Cada said as of 4 p.m. the new LPA was spotted some 620 km East of Borongan, Eastern Samar […]
MANILA, Aug. 24 (PNA) — The Metro Rail Transit (MRT) 3 resumed its normal operations Sunday morning following the restoration of its communications system. MRT spokesperson Hernando Cabrera said via Twitter that train operations resumed Sunday at 4:40 a.m. after being suspended beginning around noontime Saturday due to safety reasons. “MRT-3 communications system restored, will resume operations today at 4:30 a.m.,” Cabrera Tweeted. Management had to suspend operations Saturday due to the reported failure of […]
MANILA, Aug. 23 (PNA) — The low pressure area (LPA) hovering over Luzon is expected to leave the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Saturday or Sunday, according to Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). PAGASA weather forecaster Aldcza Aurelio as of 4 p.m. the LPA was spotted some 190 km west of Iba, Zambales (15.5ºN, 118.0 ºE). He added the LPA expected to be out of PAR by Saturday or Sunday. Aurelio […]
(Reuters) – The United States charged on Friday that a Chinese fighter pilot conducted a “dangerous intercept” of a Navy patrol plane in international air space this week, flying a few yards (meters) from the U.S. jet and performing acrobatic maneuvers around it. Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the United States lodged a formal diplomatic protest with Beijing over the incident, which took place on Tuesday 135 miles (215 km) east […]
(Reuters) – A cyber attack at a firm that performs background checks for U.S. government employees compromised data of at least 25,000 workers, including some undercover investigators, and that number could rise, agency officials said on Friday. The breach at Falls Church, Virginia-based US Investigations Services (USIS) exposed highly personal information of workers at the Department of Homeland Security’s headquarters as well as its U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection […]
(Reuters) — The first 20 bodies of the Malaysian victims on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived back on home soil on Friday (August 22), more than a month after the airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine. In a sombre ceremony, coffins draped in the Malaysian national flag were brought out of a specially chartered Malaysia Airlines flight by members of the armed forces. They were then driven away for private funerals. Officials have declared Friday a national day […]
(Reuters) – The sophistication, wealth and military might of Islamic State militants represent a major threat to the United States that may surpass that once posed by al Qaeda, U.S. military leaders said on Thursday. “They are an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it’s in Iraq or anywhere else,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters at the Pentagon. Hagel’s assessment of Islamic State, which gained strength during Syria’s civil war and swept into northern Iraq earlier […]
(Reuters) — Heavy rain delayed a search on Friday (August 22) for more than 50 people believed buried under a deadly landslide on the edge of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Rescue workers feared the continuing rain could set off further landslides in the area after a month’s rain fell in one night on Wednesday (August 20), loosening slopes already saturated by heavy rain over the past few weeks. The death toll currently stands at 39. […]
