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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The death toll in a powerful earthquake that rocked Japan’s Osaka on Monday has risen to four, with over 380 injured, officials said Tuesday, urging vigilance against landslides ahead of heavy rains. The fourth fatality was an 81-year-old woman, who died after she was trapped under a chest of drawers in her house, officials said. The other fatalities included a nine-year-old girl who died in the city of Takatsuki north of […]
by Joseph Sotinel © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — OPEC ministers gather in Vienna Tuesday for crunch talks on a landmark pact curbing oil output, with Saudi Arabia and Russia hoping to persuade their peers to increase production again. The upcoming June 22-23 meetings of OPEC and non-OPEC energy ministers are expected to be contentious, with several countries bristling at the thought of reversing a deal that has been in place for 18 months […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Senate defied President Donald Trump by voting Monday to overrule his administration’s deal with Chinese telecom firm ZTE and reimpose a ban on high-tech chip sales to the company. Senators added an amendment targeting ZTE into a sweeping, must-pass national defense spending bill that cleared the chamber on an 85-10 vote. The company has been on life support ever since Washington said it had banned US companies from selling […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump escalated a growing trade war with China by unveiling plans Monday to impose 10 percent tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. With the world’s two largest economies already engaged in a confrontation long feared by markets and industry, Trump said he was pushing forward with fresh punitive measures over Beijing’s “unacceptable” move to raise its own tariffs. “Further action must be taken to […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The US and South Korean militaries confirmed Tuesday they have called off upcoming joint exercises, after President Donald pledged to halt the drills in the wake of his summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Seoul, which has tens of thousands of US troops on its soil to help protect it from its hostile northern neighbour, said the suspension would affect the large-scale Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercises slated for August. […]
By Malou Francisco EBC Europe correspondent Eagle News Service BONN, Germany (Eagle News) — The former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai proposed ways of establishing lasting peace and stability in his country, making it a place of international cooperation and not confrontation. He made it clear that success can only happen if the Afghans are the ones truly in-charge of the peace process and their internal affairs. “Peace can come only when the United […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea said Monday that sanctions against North Korea could be eased once it takes “substantive steps towards denuclearization”, seemingly setting the bar lower than Washington for such a move. Last week’s Singapore summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un produced only a vague statement in which Kim “reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula”. Amid fears […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The Spanish king’s brother-in-law was jailed Monday after losing an appeal against a graft conviction, the prison authorities said. Inaki Urdangarin, the husband of King Felipe’s sister Cristina entered the prison in Brieva, just over 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of Madrid at 8:00 am (0600 GMT), a spokesman for the facility said. The former Olympic handball player was sentenced to five years and 10 months in jail in a case which […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea on Monday began two days of war games to practise defending the disputed Dokdo islands off its east coast — against an unlikely attack by Japan. The drills come just days after President Donald Trump announced the suspension of long-running US joint exercises with South Korea — aimed at deterring North Korea — calling them expensive and “provocative”. The two-day exercise — tiny compared with the suspended US-South […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — Authorities on Sunday called off a search for the nearly 200 people missing since Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted earlier this month, devastating the surrounding countryside. Officials have confirmed the deaths of 110 people as a result of the volcanic eruption on June 3, but another 197 remain unaccounted for. A spokesman for the government’s civil protection agency, David de Leon, said the agencies involved decided to end the search “due to […]
MAWLAMYINE, Myanmar (AFP) — Flooding in southern Myanmar has caused a landslide at a famed Buddhist pagoda, submerged homes and displaced hundreds of people as monsoon rains batter the country. Several parts of Myanmar’s southern Mon state are facing flash floods due to heavy rains since the weekend with no relief in sight, according to a report in the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar on Monday. Rains triggered a landslide that damaged the hilltop […]
by Shingo Ito / Sara Hussein © Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A powerful quake rocked Japan’s second city of Osaka on Monday, killing three people including a nine-year-old girl and injuring scores of others, according to an official tally. Television images showed buildings swaying and burst pipes spewing water after the quake, which struck at the height of rush hour in the city of around two million people. However, there was no large-scale […]
