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Hundreds of people are left stranded at ports in the Philippines as a super typhoon barrels towards the country, forcing seaports to suspend operations. Super Typhoon Noru was packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 195 kilometres (121 miles) an hour after an unprecedented “explosive intensification”, the state weather forecaster said on Sunday. The storm, the strongest to hit the Philippines this year, is expected to continue strengthening as it makes landfall around 80 kilometres […]
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) by Cat Barton and Sunghee Hwang North Korea fired a ballistic missile Sunday, Seoul’s military said, just days after a US aircraft carrier arrived for joint drills with the South in a show of force against Pyongyang. With talks long-stalled, nuclear-armed North Korea has doubled down on its banned weapons programmes, even revamping its laws earlier this month to declare itself an “irreversible” nuclear power. The Sunday launch is the latest […]
ATM: Mga deployable response groups (DRGs) ng @coastguardph District NCR-Central Luzon, nakahanda na sa posibleng evacuation o rescue operations sa kasagsagan ng #KardingPH sa Metro Manila at mga kalapit na probinsya! Heavy Rainfall Warning No. 2 NCR_PRSDWeather System: Super Typhoon #KardingPHIssued at: 5:00 PM,25 September 2022 pic.twitter.com/fZ2B44M6yL — PAGASA-DOST (@dost_pagasa) September 25, 2022 Heavy Rainfall Warning No. 1A NCR_PRSD Weather System: Super Typhoon #KardingPH Issued at: 3:39 PM,25 September 2022 pic.twitter.com/r2XlukDl1r — PAGASA-DOST (@dost_pagasa) September […]
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Thousands were without running water and power in central Japan on Sunday after Typhoon Talas dumped record rains on the region, triggering floods and landslides, and leaving at least two dead. The body of a man in Kakegawa city, Shizuoka region, was pulled from what remained of his house on Saturday after a landslide destroyed it, a regional disaster management official told AFP. “Another male (in neighbouring Fukuroi city) was driving to […]
by Shaun Tandon and Nicolas Revise Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The top US and Chinese diplomats meet Friday in New York as soaring tensions show signs of easing, but Beijing issued a new warning against support for Taiwan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are set to meet on the sidelines of the annual United Nations summit, their first encounter since extensive talks in July […]
by Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong announced Friday it will end mandatory hotel quarantine, scrapping some of the world’s toughest travel restrictions which have battered the economy and kept the finance hub internationally isolated. The long-awaited move will bring relief to residents and businesses clamouring for the Asian business hub to rejoin the rest of the world in resuming unhindered travel and living with the […]
by Suy SE Agence France Presse PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) — More than 20 Chinese nationals are missing at sea after a boat capsized off the coast of Cambodia, an official said Friday. The boat carrying 41 Chinese people got into difficulties off Sihanoukville on Thursday, Preah Sihanouk provincial spokesman Kheang Phearom told AFP, and only 18 of those on board had been rescued. The once-quiet fishing village of Sihanoukville has been transformed by a […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – Japan announced Thursday that it will lift tough Covid restrictions on foreign tourists, reopening the borders after two and a half years. Speaking at the New York Stock Exchange, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the pandemic had interrupted the free flow of people, goods and capital that had helped the nation flourish. “But from October 11, Japan will relax border control measures to be on par with the US, […]
by Shaun Tandon and Nicolas Revise Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The top US and Chinese diplomats meet Friday in New York as soaring tensions show signs of easing, but Beijing issued a new warning against support for Taiwan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are set to meet on the sidelines of the annual United Nations summit, their first encounter since extensive talks in July in […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – China’s former justice minister faces life in prison after a court handed him a suspended death sentence on Thursday for taking bribes and “bending the law”. Fu Zhenghua’s death sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment after a two-year reprieve, the Intermediate People’s Court in the city of Changchun said in a statement. The high-profile sentencing — part of a sweeping anti-graft campaign — comes just three weeks before a key […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia -(AFP) by Suy SE Cambodia’s UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court gave its final verdict Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on the regime’s last surviving leader. The tribunal was ruling on an appeal by Khieu Samphan, head of state for the murderous communist regime which wiped out a quarter of the Cambodian population in less than four years in the 1970s. It is the last verdict that will […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Protests spread to 15 cities across Iran overnight over the death of the young woman Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the country’s morality police, state media reported on Wednesday. In the fifth night of street rallies, police used tear gas and made arrests to disperse crowds of up to 1,000 people, the official IRNA news agency said. Demonstrators blockaded streets, hurled stones at security forces, set fire to police […]
