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BEIJING, China (AFP) — The death toll in a landslide that buried a village in southwest China rose to 20 on Friday, with 25 people still missing three days after the disaster, state media said. Rescuers found the bodies of two children, a mother with her baby, and another woman on Thursday in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, according to state broadcaster CCTV, citing an investigation. Eleven people have been found alive since the side of […]
by Jerome TAYLOR / Yan ZHAO HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong police on Thursday banned a planned protest against suspected triad gangs who beat up pro-democracy demonstrators, ratcheting up tensions ahead of what is expected to be another weekend of anti-government rallies. Protest organizers have vowed to go ahead with their march despite the police denying their request. Public anger has been raging since last Sunday when a gang of men in white […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the launch of “a new-type of tactical guided weapon” as a “solemn warning to South Korean military warmongers,” state news wire KCNA said Friday. Kim “personally organized and guided” the firing of the “state-of-the-art weaponry system” on Thursday, KCNA said, a reference to the two short-range missiles fired into the sea. It was Pyongyang’s first missile test since an impromptu June meeting between […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — North Korea fired “projectiles” that landed outside Japanese waters, Japan’s defense minister said Thursday, calling the latest launches by Pyongyang “extremely regrettable”. “We have confirmed so far that they did not reach our country’s territory or exclusive economic zone,” Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told reporters after South Korea reported two “projectile” launches. “If they were ballistic missiles, it violates UN resolutions… These recent cases of them firing projectiles are extremely regrettable,” […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — North Korea is holding a Russian fishing ship with a crew of 15 Russians and two South Koreans since detaining it last week, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang said Wednesday. North Korean border guards took control of the ship belonging to the Russian North-Eastern Fishing Company on July 17. “According to the North Korean foreign ministry, the ship was detained for ‘violating rules of entry and stay’” in North Korea, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Four Chinese nationals have been indicted for financial dealings with North Korean companies sanctioned for involvement in the production of weapons of mass destruction, the US Justice Department said Tuesday. Ma Xiaohong, the head of Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development Co. Ltd (DHID) and three top executives of the Chinese company were indicted by a federal grand jury in New Jersey, the department said in a statement. The other three […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Moscow denied on Tuesday that its aircraft had violated South Korean airspace, saying its jets had carried out planned drills over international waters. “Two Tu-95 strategic bombers of Russia’s aerospace forces carried out a planned flight in the airspace above the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan,” the defence ministry said in a statement. It also denied that the South Korean planes fired warning shots. Moscow said two South Korean […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean fighter jets fired over 400 warning shots and Japan complained to Moscow on Tuesday after a Russian military plane violated airspace claimed by both Seoul and Tokyo. Seoul said a Russian A-50 warplane twice entered South Korean airspace near the disputed Dokdo islets — which Japan calls Takeshima. South Korea officials said they responded by scrambling F-15K and KF-16 fighters, which first issued warnings and fired flares. […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Severe floods and lightning have claimed the lives of more than 650 people across India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, officials said Monday as the annual monsoon took its toll on the rainfed region. More than 10 million people in the South Asian countries have been affected by the deluge, which has also forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. In India, heavy rains since the start of July have […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iranian authorities said on Monday that security agencies had arrested 17 suspects and sentenced some of them to death after dismantling a CIA spy ring in a case announced last month. The agencies “successfully dismantled a (CIA) spy network on July 18,” the head of counter-intelligence at the Iranian intelligence ministry, whose identity was not revealed, told reporters in Tehran. “Some were sentenced to death and some to long-term imprisonment.” © […]
by Jerome TAYLOR / Elaine YU HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Anger soared in Hong Kong on Monday over a vicious assault against pro-democracy protesters by a mob of suspected triad gangsters that left dozens wounded, one critically, in a dramatic escalation of the political violence plaguing the financial hub. The city’s roiling unrest took a dark turn late Sunday when gangs of men — most wearing white t-shirts and carrying bats, sticks and metal […]
by Shingo ITO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claimed victory Sunday for his ruling coalition in the upper house election but appeared to fail to secure a “supermajority” in the chamber in support of his dream to amend the nation’s pacifist constitution. With the results, the 64-year-old Abe, who is on course to become Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, aims to shore up his mandate ahead of a crucial consumption tax hike later this year, along […]
