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UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — A senior UN official warned Tuesday that recent rapprochement on the Korean peninsula, as well as between North Korea and the United States had not been accompanied by an improvement in human rights in the reclusive country. Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the North, urged Pyongyang to show willingness to start addressing the issue following key summits with both South Korea and the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump charged Tuesday that a Saudi operation to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul had given rise to “one of the worst cover-ups” in history. “They had a very bad original concept. It was carried out poorly and the cover-up was one of the worst in the history of cover-ups,” Trump declared in the Oval Office. “Bad deal, should have never been thought of. […]
by Amber WANG / Sean CHANG Agence France-Presse YILAN, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan’s president pushed for a swift investigation Monday after an express train derailed on a coastal tourist route, killing 18 people as it sent sleeping passengers flying from their seats. The crash on the popular east coast line injured another 187 people Sunday and left the Puyuma Express lying zig-zagged across the tracks in the island’s worst rail accident for a quarter century. […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, and was felt strongly in the capital Taipei. The quake struck around 104 kilometers (66 miles) off the coast of Hualien city, in the east of the island, at a depth of 34 km at 12:34 pm (0434 GMT). There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Taiwan’s central weather bureau measured the quake at 6.0 magnitude. © Agence […]
by Jennifer GONZALEZ COVARRUBIAS / with Jerome CARTILLIER in Washington Agence France Presse HUEHUETAN, Mexico (AFP) — President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will start cutting aid to three Central American countries as a caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran migrants rolled on toward the US border. The United Nations said more than 7,000 people were now heading toward the United States, as more migrants joined the original group, including some Central Americans […]
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Hurricane Willa was upgraded to a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm Monday off Mexico’s Pacific coast, where it was expected to produce life-threatening wind and flooding, the US National Hurricane Center said. The powerful hurricane was on course to slam into Mexico somewhere around the resort town of Mazatlan on Tuesday afternoon or evening, the NHC said in its 1500 GMT advisory. It now has maximum sustained winds of 260 kilometers […]
by Sara HUSSEIN Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a rare trip to China this week hoping improved relations will lead to new economic partnerships, as the two countries come under US pressure on trade. The visit is the first by a Japanese premier since 2011 and is part of a years-long process of repairing ties in the wake of a disastrous falling-out in 2012, when Tokyo “nationalised” […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Kanye West made a five-figure donation Monday to a little-known candidate running to become the mayor of his hometown Chicago, days after she was endorsed by fellow hip hop star Chance the Rapper. Kanye gave $73,540 to the campaign of Amara Enyia, who wants to be the first black woman to lead America’s third largest city. The amount is the exact figure state election officials fined Enyia’s campaign for a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Two US warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, a military spokesman said, in a move bound to aggravate China amid heightened tensions with Beijing. The USS Curtis Wilbur and USS Antietam conducted a routine transit to demonstrate US commitment “to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Colonel Rob Manning told reporters at a press briefing. It was the second time in the space of three months that American warships […]
by Luis Jaime CISNEROS Agence France Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru President Martin Vizcarra vetoed on Monday a law that would have spared disgraced former leader Alberto Fujimori from prison, confining criminals over 65 suffering from serious or chronic illnesses to house arrest. The law, passed by a Congress dominated by Fujimori’s former party, Popular Force, would have allowed the 80-year-old to avoid being sent back to prison once he leaves hospital, where he […]
by Eleonore Sens / with Jerome Cartillier in Washington Agence France Presse HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — “Big Night in Texas!” Donald Trump promised in his Monday morning tweet. Ted Cruz hopes it is as well. The US leader arrived in the Lone Star State in the evening to give a shot in the arm to the Senate campaign of Cruz, his fiercest rival for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Wearing black cowboy boots, […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — More than 7,000 people have joined the migrant caravan headed toward the US border with Mexico, a UN spokesman said Monday, citing estimates of the International Organization for Migration. “IOM reports that large numbers of people are arriving in Mexico today and are likely to remain in the country for an extended period,” UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said, urging that they be treated with “respect and dignity.” “At […]
