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by Shingo ITO / Sara HUSSEIN TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s new prime minister Fumio Kishida unveiled his government on Monday, mixing holdovers with newcomers, after lawmakers voted him the new leader of the world’s third-largest economy. The soft-spoken scion of a Hiroshima political family, 64-year-old Kishida beat popular vaccine chief Taro Kono to win the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) last week. He easily won Monday’s vote in parliament approving him […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia said on Monday it had launched a new hypersonic cruise missile from a submarine, the latest test of emerging weapons President Vladimir Putin has dubbed “invincible”. Moscow has in recent years touted the development of weapons that it hopes will give it the edge in any arms race with the United States at a time of growing tensions with the West. Hypersonics can travel more than five times the speed […]
LUCKNOW, India (AFP) — At least eight people were killed in northern India Sunday after clashes broke out at a farmers’ protest, officials told local media, in a deadly escalation of their year-long campaign against controversial agriculture laws. The farmers had gathered for a demonstration in Uttar Pradesh state’s Lakhimpur Kheri district, where the junior home affairs minister Ajay Mishra and the state’s deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya had been due to visit. Chaotic […]
by Amber WANG Agence France Presse TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan accused Beijing of bullying and damaging regional peace Saturday after Chinese fighter jets and bombers made their largest-ever incursion into the island’s air defence zone. Beijing marked its National Day on Friday with its biggest aerial show of force against Taiwan, buzzing the self-ruled democratic island with 38 warplanes, including nuclear-capable H-6 bombers. That was followed by a new record incursion on Saturday by […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia on Friday reported a high for coronavirus deaths for a fourth day running as infections continue to surge. A government tally reported 887 fatalities over the past 24 hours. Over the same period there were 24,522 new cases — the highest total since late July. The new figure brings the country’s total deaths from Covid-19 to 208,142 — the highest in Europe. The world’s fifth worst-hit country with more than […]
by Shingo ITO TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — After years of controversy, Japan’s Princess Mako will marry this month, but she will forego traditional rites and will not take a usual payment given to royal women marrying commoners. “Princess Mako will marry on October 26,” an Imperial Household Agency official told AFP, adding that “wedding ceremony, reception banquet and other rituals won’t be held, and a lump-sum payment won’t be provided.” Princess Mako, who is the […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Sri Lanka on Friday lifted a near six-week lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus but maintained a night curfew and a ban on public gatherings and parties. Daily deaths had jumped to over 250 with 4,000 infections after Sri Lankans celebrated the traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year in mid-April, but case numbers have since eased. The health ministry on Friday urged companies to encourage staff to work from […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has test-fired a “newly developed” anti-aircraft missile, the latest in a string of recent weapons test launches, state media said Friday. “The DPRK test-fired an anti-aircraft missile newly developed by it on September 30,” the Korean Central News Agency reported, using the country’s official name. © Agence France-Presse
MANAMA, Bahrain (AFP) — Israel’s top diplomat Yair Lapid opened the Jewish state’s embassy in Bahrain Thursday, a year after the US-brokered normalisation of ties. “We have officially opened the Israeli embassy in Bahrain,” tweeted Lapid. “We agreed that by the end of the year, there will be the opening of the Bahraini embassy in Israel.” © Agence France-Presse
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghanistan’s health system is on the verge of collapse, a top Red Cross official warned Thursday, saying more than 2,000 health facilities had been shuttered across the conflict-ravaged country. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned that a dire lack of funding was pushing Afghanistan’s health system to the brink. “People might agree to work without salaries for a few more weeks,” Alexander Matheou, IFRC’s Asia […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister has been appointed to the country’s top government body, the official KCNA news agency reported Thursday. Kim Yo Jong, a key adviser to her brother, was promoted to a position on the State Affairs Commission, amid a raft of changes approved by the Supreme People’s Assembly, the rubber-stamp parliament. No fewer than nine members of the commission were dismissed, including one of […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un condemned a US offer of dialogue as a “facade”, state media reported Thursday, and accused the Joe Biden administration of continuing a hostile policy against his nuclear-armed country. Talks between Pyongyang and Washington have been largely at a standstill since the collapse of the Hanoi summit between Kim and then-president Donald Trump over sanctions relief and what the North would be willing to give […]
