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BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Heavy haze enveloping many parts of north China is seriously disrupting people’s daily life. In Beijing, Tuesday marks the fifth day of a red alert warning against air pollution. As of 06:30, a total of 169 flights had been canceled due to low visibility of less than 300 meters. The visibility is expected to rise to one kilometer after 10:00. The government has increased its public transport capacities and implemented the […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake followed by 37 aftershocks rattled Ecuador’s Pacific coast before dawn Monday, causing three deaths and heavy damage to hotels and homes in resort towns, officials said. The northwestern province of Esmeraldas — hit hard by a devastating temblor in April — bore the brunt of the new quake, too. Three people died and 47 were injured as a result of the quake, according to disaster management agency SGR. At […]
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin held a special meeting in the Kremlin to discuss the murder of Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov on Monday (December 19). “The committed crime is obviously a provocation designed to spoil normalisation of Russia-Turkey relations and derailing peace process in Syria which is actively promoted by Russia, Turkey, Iran and other countries interested in reconcilement of inter-Syria conflict,” Putin said. Putin also said he had a […]
by Adem Altan with Stuart WILLIAMS in Istanbul Agence France Presse ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — A Turkish policeman crying “Aleppo” and “Allahu Akbar” shot dead Russia’s ambassador to Turkey in Ankara on Monday, prompting a vow from President Vladimir Putin to step up the fight against “terrorism.” Andrei Karlov died of his wounds after the shooting in an Ankara exhibition center, which came on the eve of a key meeting in Moscow between the Russian, […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — The Chinese and U.S. militaries are having “unimpeded” talks about the return of U.S. underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea last week, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday (December 19). The drone, known as an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), was taken on Thursday (December 15) in waters off the coast of the Philippines, the first seizure of its kind in recent memory. U.S. President-elect […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The US Marines on Monday resumed flights of their controversial Osprey aircraft in Japan, less than a week after a crash off the southern island of Okinawa sparked local protests. Last Tuesday an MV-22 Osprey made what Marines called a “controlled landing” just off the Okinawan coast during a night training flight that left the aircraft in pieces. No one was killed but the accident sparked anger on the island — […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Hospital visits spiked, roads were closed and flights cancelled Monday as China choked under a vast cloud of toxic smog, with forecasters warning the worse was yet to come. At least 23 cities in the world’s most populous country have issued red alerts for air pollution since Friday, according to the official Xinhua news agency. A host of emergency measures have been implemented to protect the public’s health from the smog, […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese state media said Monday US President-elect Donald Trump’s diplomatic inexperience could spark a confrontation between the two nations, while one newspaper termed him unfit to lead a superpower. They were commenting on Trump’s response to Beijing’s seizure of a US maritime probe in international waters, a move which raised already heightened tensions between the world’s two largest military powers. A Chinese naval vessel “unlawfully” grabbed the unmanned underwater vehicle in […]
by Hwang Sunghee Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-Hye has set off an early scramble among her potential successors, even before the final decision has been made to remove her from office. While some have openly announced their intention to run, others have been more circumspect — resulting in a “phony campaign” where the declared and undeclared protagonists skirmish without really joining battle. On paper, […]
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) — The Islamic State (IS) group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that struck a gathering of pro-government forces in Yemen’s temporary capital of Aden that left at least 49 soldiers dead. An online statement made by IS on twitter claimed that “more than 70 apostates were killed in the jihadist attack.” The suicide bomber who carried out the terrorist operation was identified as Abu Hashim Radfani, according to an […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no immediate casualties were reported and an initial tsunami threat was later deemed to have passed. The earthquake struck 60 km to the east of Taron, New Ireland, at 8.51 pm local time (1051 GMT) at a depth of some 75 km, the USGS said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre initially warned hazardous […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said Saturday it would return a US naval probe seized in international waters, as it slammed the “hyping” of the incident as “inappropriate and unhelpful”. The unmanned underwater vehicle was taken around 50 nautical miles northwest of Subic Bay in the Philippines late on Thursday, according to the Pentagon, which called the capture unlawful and demanded its immediate return. The incident comes amid escalating tensions between China and the […]
