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BEIJING, China (AFP) — A tornado has left six people dead and nearly 200 injured after ripping through a northeastern Chinese city, local authorities said Thursday. The tornado hit Kaiyuan in Liaoning province on Wednesday afternoon, tearing down trees and electricity poles, smashing the windows of apartment buildings, and knocking down some brick walls. More than 190 people were injured and 43 of them were hospitalized, the Kaiyuan public security bureau said on the Weibo […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese authorities have issued evacuation orders for more than one million people in southern parts of the country hit by heavy rains, a year after deadly floods that killed more than 200 people. Small landslides were already being reported in parts of the affected area, public broadcaster NHK reported. It said a total of 1.1 million people in Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, on the island of Kyushu, had been ordered to […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — China warned Britain on Wednesday that it must “refrain from further interference” in Hong Kong’s protests or risk “further damaging” its relationship with Beijing. China has appeared irked by Britain’s public rebukes over the unprecedented anti-Beijing demonstrations that have rocked Hong Kong in recent weeks. “I do hope that the British government will realize the consequences and… refrain from further interference, from further damaging the relationship,” China’s UK ambassador […]
MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Six people were killed and at least 18 were missing on Wednesday after the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade breached a dam in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, authorities said. “Using drones, we have located six dead bodies and over 18 people are still missing,” Alok Awasthy, spokesman for India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), told AFP. “We have deployed two teams after the Tiware dam breach occurred last […]
US President Donald Trump’s government on Tuesday gave up a controversial attempt to put a question about citizenship on next year’s census, handing a victory to those who argued the new item would lead to discrimination against minority residents including Filipinos living in the US. The decision followed a Supreme Court ruling that the case for adding the citizenship question was not convincing. Trump’s initial reaction to the ruling had been to call for […]
by Marina LAPENKOVA Agence France Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Fourteen Russian seamen have died in a fire on a deep-water research submersible, Russia’s defence ministry said Tuesday, amid local media reports that the vessel was a secretive nuclear-powered mini-submarine. Russian officials have offered little information about the vessel or the circumstances of the accident, but the presence of many senior ranking officers on board could suggest it was not on an ordinary assignment. The […]
by Peter HUTCHISON MUMBAI, India (AFP) — A wall collapsed and killed at least 22 people in Mumbai on Tuesday as the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade brought chaos to India’s financial capital and surrounding areas. Scores more were injured when the structure came down at nighttime in a slum, said Tanaji Kamble, a disaster management spokesman for Mumbai’s local authority. By late Tuesday one more person had succumbed to injuries, increasing the previous […]
by Imed LAMLOUM TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) –Nearly 40 migrants were killed in an air strike Tuesday night on their detention centre in a Tripoli suburb blamed on Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who has been trying for three months to seize the capital. At least 70 were also wounded in the raid on Tajoura, an emergency services spokesman told AFP. “This is a preliminary assessment and the toll could rise,” said spokesman Osama Ali. He said […]
by Yan ZHAO / Catherine LAI Agence France Presse Hong Kong Tuesday grappled with the aftermath of a night of unprecedented anti-government protests which saw parliament ransacked, as Beijing called for a criminal probe into the unparalleled challenge to its authority. The semi-autonomous financial hub has been thrown into crisis by weeks of demonstrations over a bill that would allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland, with the issue becoming a lightning rod for resentment […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping urged US President Donald Trump to “show flexibility” towards North Korea, including the “timely” easing of sanctions, at the G20 summit last week, China’s foreign minister said Tuesday. Xi visited North Korea prior to meeting Trump at the G20 in Japan on Saturday, and analysts had said the Chinese leader could use the trip as leverage in his trade war talks with the US leader. Trump […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday hailed the third meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone as the result of an “astounding imagination” and thinking outside the box. All three held an impromptu encounter at the truce village of Panmunjom on Sunday when Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea and agreed with Kim to resume working-level talks, […]
MUMBAI, India (AFP) — At least 15 people were killed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai early Tuesday when a wall collapsed during torrential monsoon downpours. Another 69 were injured when the structure came down around 2am (2030 GMT Monday) in a slum settlement, Tanaji Kamble, a disaster management spokesman for Mumbai’s local authority, told AFP. The tragedy came as the teeming coastal settlement of 20 million residents was lashed by heavy rains for a […]
