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by Ola Gondronk Agence France Presse PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — Nearly 400 people were killed when a powerful quake sent a tsunami barrelling into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, officials said Saturday, as hospitals struggled to cope with hundreds of injured and rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region. The national disaster agency put the official death toll so far at 384, all of them in the tsunami-struck city of Palu, but warned […]
MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AFP) — A powerful earthquake hit central Indonesia on Friday, causing a tsunami that slammed into a city on Sulawesi island with officials saying the tremor had levelled “many” buildings. The shallow 7.5 magnitude quake sparked terror among locals who fled into the streets and raced to higher ground fearing tsunami waves. The disaster agency briefly issued a tsunami warning before lifting it. But dramatic video footage filmed from the top floor of […]
Indonesia was struck by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries. The country’s national disaster agency briefly issued a tsunami warning before cancelling it. The strong quake hit central Sulawesi island at a shallow depth of some 10 kilometres (six miles), just hours after a smaller quake killed at least one person in the same part of the country. The latest quake […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam’s growth slowed in the third quarter, data showed Friday, with a warning that the export-led economy could soon be caught up in Donald Trump’s trade war with China. Vietnam is one of Asia’s fastest growing economies — GDP growth has topped five percent over the past five years — largely driven by the export of cheap goods such as Adidas trainers, Intel computer processors and Samsung phones. Though it is […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A strong and shallow earthquake with a 6.1 magnitude struck central Indonesia Friday, geologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake was centered around 18 kilometers (11 miles) deep, just off the coast of Sulawesi island, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage and Indonesia’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency (BMKG) said there was no risk of a tsunami. Indonesia is one of the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A large, very strong typhoon churned towards Japan Friday, with the weather agency warning the storm would rip through the nation over the weekend, bringing violent winds and torrential rain. Typhoon Trami, packing gusts of a maximum 162 kilometers (100 miles) per hour near its center, was in the Pacific spiraling slowly towards Japan’s southern islands. “As it is forecast to go across Japan at a high speed, we are urging […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Nearly 200 people have died in flooding caused by heavy seasonal rains across 12 states in Nigeria, the country’s main relief agency said on Thursday. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said 199 people had lost their lives after the main Niger and Benue rivers burst their banks. A national disaster has been declared in the central states of Kogi, where the two rivers meet, and Niger, plus Delta and Anambra […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday urged world governments to encourage North Korea to advance toward denuclearization by “responding positively” to leader Kim Jong Un’s “new choices”. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Moon praised his North Korean counterpart — with whom he has held three summits — saying he had “changed the direction of the political situation” on the Korean peninsula. “North Korea moved out of longstanding isolation […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a longtime hardliner on North Korea, said Tuesday he was willing to meet Kim Jong Un after the once reclusive leader’s historic summit with US President Donald Trump. Abe, who one year ago warned at the United Nations that the window for diplomacy with North Korea was closing, took a more open but still cautious tone in his latest address to the world body. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The suspension of US-South Korean drills this summer hurt the readiness of the two militaries, the nominee to head US and UN forces in South Korea said Tuesday. General Robert Abrams said the pause in drills, which President Donald Trump agreed to at his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June, had been a “prudent risk” to help facilitate a detente on the peninsula. But there “was […]
ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) — In rebel-held northern Syria, displaced children sit or lie on the ground of an unfinished villa, bending over their notebooks to apply themselves as they write the day’s lesson. Four teachers instruct around 100 children — girls and boys aged six to 12 — at the makeshift school in an opposition-held area in the west of the northern province of Aleppo. Between the bare walls of the villa abandoned mid-construction, children […]
by Ryan MCMORROW Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said on Tuesday it was impossible to hold trade talks with the United States while Washington is imposing tariffs that are like “holding a knife to someone’s throat”. Speaking a day after Washington activated tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, vice commerce minister Wang Shouwen said China is open to negotiations but that the two sides must treat each other “equally and with […]
