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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Severe Cyclone Mora hit Bangladesh Tuesday packing winds of up to 117 kilometers per hour (73mph) after authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from low-lying coastal villages. The storm made landfall on the coast between Cox’s Bazar and the main port city of Chittagong at 6:00 am (0000 GMT), the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said in a special weather bulletin. © Agence France-Presse
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a popular Baghdad ice cream shop, killing at least eight people, security officials said on Tuesday. The overnight attack in the Karrada district in central Baghdad also wounded at least 30 people, officials said. The Islamic State group-linked Amaq propaganda agency said the suicide bomber targeted a “gathering of Shiites.” IS considers members of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority to be heretics and frequently carries […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Fourteen civilians were killed late Monday when Islamic State group jihadists shelled a government-controlled neighborhood of Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor city, a monitor said. Three children were among the dead in the regime-held Al-Joura district, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “The shelling hit just before families were gathering to break the Ramadan fast,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. Besieged by IS since early 2015, the regime-controlled third […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea confirmed its test-firing of a precision-guided ballistic missile was “successful,” the state-run news agency KCNA reported Tuesday, a day after the projectile landed in waters provocatively close to Japan. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un supervised the launch of the “new-type precision guided ballistic rocket” — the third missile test by the nuclear-armed regime in less than three weeks and carried out in defiance of United Nations sanctions warnings […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) – A shallow, 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit inland on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi Monday, United States seismologists said, causing people to panic but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The quake hit at a depth of nine kilometers (six miles) at 10:35 pm (1435 GMT), west of the town of Poso, according to the US Geological Survey. Muhammad Guntur, who lives on the outskirts of the town, said […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China pleaded again for dialogue on Monday to ease regional tensions after North Korea launched its latest missile test in defiance of United Nations sanctions. The Chinese foreign ministry urged Pyongyang in a statement to refrain from activities that go against UN Security Council resolutions. “We hope that related parties can remain calm and restrained, ease the tension on the peninsula, and bring the peninsula issue into the right track of peaceful […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has urged the Group of Seven leading economies to “stop making irresponsible remarks” after the G7 summit expressed concern about the situation in the East and South China Seas. China has a dispute with Japan over small uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, while its claim to most of the South China Sea is challenged by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. In their closing communique in Italy […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – Former world number one golfer Ai Miyazato said on Monday (May 29) that she would retire at the end of this season, saying that she had been struggling to maintain her motivation for years although her life as a pro had been a happy one. The Okinawan-born Miyazato, 31 and a nine-time winner on the LPGA tour, told a Tokyo news conference that she had decided last summer that this season […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) – A China-funded railway connecting the Kenyan capital with a key port brings a wide range of benefits to the country, said Kenya’s railway chief during a recent interview with China Global Television Network. The Mombasa-Nairobi railway will soon be in service. It will help cut the travel time of a 400-kilometer distance from about six hours to four. Atanas K. Maina, Managing Director of Kenya Railways, said the railway will help […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korea’s recent string of missile launches is seen as an attempt to apply pressure on South Korea to change policy, the South Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) official said, on Monday (May 29) after Pyongyang fired a short-range ballistic missile. The Scud-class missile fired by North Korea reached an altitude of 120 kilometers (75 miles), the JCS official told a briefing. He said South Korea’s military was analyzing how […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – Residents of Tokyo expressed their concerns after North Korea fired what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile on Monday (May 29). The missile was believed to be a Scud-class ballistic missile which appeared to have flown about 450 kilometers (280 miles) and landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone. Many in Tokyo were worried that missiles would impact on not only the coastal area of the Sea of Japan, but also […]
(Reuters) – Two women suspected of murdering the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are due to appear in a Malaysian court on May 30. Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong and Indonesian Siti Aishah face the death penalty if they are convicted of killing Kim Jong Nam. The two allegedly smeared VX nerve agent, a chemical described by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction, across Kim’s face at Kuala Lumpur […]
