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US flies bombers over Korean peninsula for drill: Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The US flew four stealth fighter jets and two bombers over the Korean peninsula on Monday in a show of force after North Korea’s latest nuclear and missile tests, South Korea’s defense ministry said. Four F-35B stealth fighters and two B-1B bombers flew over the peninsula to “demonstrate the deterrence capability of the US-South Korea alliance against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats,” the ministry said in a statement. They were the first flights since the North conducted its […]

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UN urged to punish Myanmar army over Rohingya ‘atrocities’

YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) – Pressure tightened on Myanmar Monday as a rights group urged world leaders to impose sanctions on the country’s military, which is accused of driving out more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims in an orchestrated “ethnic cleansing” campaign. The call from Human Rights Watch came as the UN General Assembly prepared to convene in New York, with the ongoing crisis in Myanmar billed as one of most pressing topics. The mass exodus of Rohingya refugees to […]

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Typhoon Talim brings heavy rain, major disruption in southern Japan

KYOTO, Japan (CCTV) — A powerful typhoon ripped into southern Japan on Sunday, dumping torrential rain, halting train services and affecting tourism. Typhoon Talim made landfall in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, around 11:30 on Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Because of strong winds, power has been cut off in the Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Miyazaki prefectures, affecting more than 3,000 households. Nearly 800 flights have been canceled in Kyushu and […]

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Hurricane Maria following Irma’s path

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Maria became a hurricane Sunday as it barreled toward the storm-battered eastern Caribbean with 75 mile (120 kilometers) per hour winds, the US National Hurricane Center said, on a path similar to that of mega storm Irma earlier in the month. Storm warnings and watches went up in many of the Caribbean islands still reeling from Irma’s destructive passage. As of 2100 GMT, Maria was a Category One hurricane, the […]

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Powerful wind storm kills eight in Romania

BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) — A storm packing powerful winds ripped off roofs and toppled trees in Romania on Sunday, killing eight people and injuring dozens more, authorities and witnesses said. With gusts that reached nearly 100 kilometres (60 miles) an hour, the storm pounded the area around the western city of Timisoara before heading north toward Ukraine. Most of the victims were outside when the winds swept in. One man was hit by a falling tree, another […]

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Two dead, three missing as typhoon rips through Japan

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A powerful typhoon ripped through the Japanese archipelago on Monday, leaving two people dead and three others missing, officials and news reports said. Typhoon Talim made landfall Sunday in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, packing winds of up to 162 kilometers (105 miles) per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The storm, moving northeast along the country, reached the nation’s northern island of Hokkaido by Monday morning, dumping […]

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Mexicans march to protest violence against women

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Thousands of women of all ages marched Sunday through Mexico City, demanding justice in the case of a young woman who was kidnapped and murdered. “It wasn’t your fault, Mara,” read a sign carried by one marcher, rejecting attempts to shift the blame on the victim, 19-year-old Mara Castilla, for having gone out alone at night. Castilla’s body was found Friday in the neighboring state of Puebla, a week after she left a nightclub and […]

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Britain lowers threat level after second arrest over London attack

  by Alice Tidey Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain downgraded on Sunday the nation’s terrorism threat from its highest level, after police made a second arrest in their probe days after the bombing of a London Underground train. The bomb went off during Friday’s morning rush hour in a packed carriage and although the device is thought to have malfunctioned, it still wounded 30 people. It was Britain’s fifth terror attack […]

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Protests over St Louis police shooting turn violent for third day

CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Protesters hurled debris at police in St. Louis, Missouri Sunday and smashed store windows as demonstrations over the acquittal of a former police officer in the shooting death of a black man turned violent for a third straight day. “Agitators are breaking multiple windows at Olive & 10th. Officers are heading to scene,” said on its Twitter account. Hundreds of protesters earlier staged a “die in” outside a police headquarters […]

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Trump steps onto world stage with maiden UN speech

by Andrew Beatty  and Jerome Cartillier Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump makes his maiden address to the United Nations on Tuesday, a spectacle closely watched at home and around the world, with the potential to move armies, markets and polls. His appearance — which aides say will last around a half-hour — is the centerpiece of a week-long marathon of remarks by world leaders, each vying to make their […]

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US warns N. Korea will be ‘destroyed’ if threats continue

by Brian Knowlton Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump’s administration ramped up the pressure on North Korea on Sunday ahead of a week of high-stakes diplomacy at the United Nations, warning Pyongyang will be “destroyed” if it refuses to end its “reckless” nuclear and ballistic missile drive. With US officials and their allies scrambling to find ways to contain an increasingly belligerent Pyongyang, the US president will address the UN General […]

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Bomb scare forces BA flight evacuation in Paris

PARIS, France (AFP) — A London-bound British Airways flight was evacuated at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport on Sunday after a bomb scare, but was later cleared for take-off. A woman in her 50s was taken into custody on suspicion of claiming that the Heathrow-bound plane, with 130 passengers onboard, was going to explode, a source close to the inquiry said. She was refused access to the plane because she did not have a valid […]

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