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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but Japanese authorities said there was no tsunami threat. The quake struck at 8:48 am (2348 GMT Thursday) in Pacific waters nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) east-southeast of Miyazaki city at a depth of 24 km, according to the agency. The Japan Meteorological Agency said there were no worries about tsunami damage. The weather agency issued an emergency […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a “long-range strike” drill, the state news agency reported Friday, a day after South Korea said the weapons fired were short-range missiles. “At the command post, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un learned about a plan of the strike drill of various long-range strike means and gave an order of start of the drill,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Thursday’s launch was […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea fired a number of unidentified projectiles Thursday, the South’s military said, as a US envoy visited Seoul for discussions on how to break the nuclear deadlock. “North Korea fired unidentified projectiles eastward” from Sino-ri in North Pyongan province, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. The launch came just days after North Korea carried out a military drill and fired multiple projectiles, with at […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Chinese court was expected to hold a hearing Thursday on a Canadian man’s appeal against a death sentence for drug smuggling in a case that has deepened a diplomatic spat between Beijing and Ottawa. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, was sentenced to death in January after a court deemed his previous 15-year prison sentence too lenient. The appeal hearing comes a day after a top executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, […]
by Shaun Tandon with Amir Havasi in Tehran WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday tightened the screws further on Iran with sanctions on its mining industry after a frustrated Tehran said it would suspend some promises it made under a nuclear deal rejected by Washington. On the anniversary of Trump’s withdrawal from the accord he denounced as “horrible,” tensions were soaring after the United States deployed an aircraft carrier strike […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A car ploughed into a group of kindergarten children in western Japan’s Shiga region on Wednesday, killing two toddlers and injuring others, police said. Police said the car veered onto the pavement after making “contact” with another larger vehicle that was turning at a junction in Otsu City. The accident killed a girl and a boy, both two years old, a police spokesman told AFP. “The (smaller) car rammed into […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — A blast at one of Pakistan’s oldest and most popular Sufi shrines killed at least four people and wounded 24 in the eastern city of Lahore Wednesday, police said, as the country marks the fasting month of Ramadan. Police have said they are still investigating the nature of the blast, which occurred near the entrance gate for female visitors to the 11th-century Data Darbar shrine, one of the largest Sufi shrines […]
by Eva XIAO BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Canadian man handed the death penalty for drug smuggling in China will appeal his sentence Thursday, in a case that has deepened the diplomatic rift between Beijing and Canada. The appeal comes against the backdrop of Beijing’s anger over the December arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei, who faces a US extradition hearing in Canada on Wednesday. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian investigators were on Tuesday considering pilot error as the cause of a crash-landing that saw a plane erupt in flames at Moscow’s busiest airport and kill 41 people, media reported. The first fire engine arrived at the scene only two minutes after the plane landed and burst into flames, the airport said Tuesday. Russian television channel Ren TV posted what it said was the conversation between the pilots and air […]
by Fulya Ozerkan with Raziye Akkoc in Ankara ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday welcomed in order to re-run the recent Istanbul election, a move the opposition has branded an attack on democracy. His ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost the mayorship of Turkey’s biggest city by a narrow margin and has refused to accept defeat. “We sincerely believe there was organized corruption and irregularities,” Erdogan told party members […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Air Force is deploying massive B-52 Stratofortress bombers to the Gulf in response to an alleged possible plan by Iran to attack American forces in the region, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Several nuclear-capable B-52s are heading to the region along with an aircraft carrier task force following what the Defense Department called “recent and clear indications that Iranian and Iranian proxy forces were making preparations to possibly attack […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran will reduce some of its commitments to the nuclear deal in response to the United States’ decision to withdraw from the accord, state news agency IRNA said on Tuesday. “This will be communicated to the ambassadors of the five countries” still party to the deal — Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia — at a meeting on Wednesday with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, IRNA reported. A foreign […]
