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ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday slammed the economic and political isolation of Qatar as inhumane and contrary to Islamic values after key Gulf states broke off ties with Ankara’s ally. “Taking action to isolate a country in all areas is inhumane and un-Islamic,” Erdogan said in televised comments to his party in Ankara, after Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain broke off relations with Qatar on June 5, accusing it of […]
The establishment of China-Panama diplomatic ties has opened a new chapter of relations for both countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a meeting with Isabel Saint Malo de Alvarado, Panama’s vice president and foreign minister, in Beijing on Tuesday. “Both China and Panama agree that the one-China principle is the fundamental premise and the political basis on which the two countries can establish diplomatic ties and develop bilateral relations. We both agree that the […]
KHAGRACHARI, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Landslides triggered by heavy rain buried hillside homes in Bangladesh on Tuesday (June 13) killing at least 43 people and injuring several, officials said. The landslides hit hilly districts in the southeast, killing 10 people in one village, eight in another and seven in a third, said police official Rafiq Ullah. The death toll could go up as rescuers were searching for bodies, he added. Video filmed in hilly Khagrachari in […]
MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — Several people were wounded when shots were fired at a commuter rail station near the southern German city of Munich on Tuesday, as police detain one person who is believed to be behind the incident. “Several people were injured by shots. A female police officer was badly wounded” at an S-Bahn station in Unterfoehring, a northeastern suburb of the Bavarian city, police tweeted, and that the scene was now “secured.” A Munich police […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – A package exploded at South Korea’s Yonsei University in central Seoul on Tuesday (June 13) injuring a staff member who opened it in his office, a fire official said. Yonhap news agency said the blast sent small bolt nails flying from the package. It said the engineering faculty member was not seriously injured, suffering burns to his arm, and was being treated at the university hospital. The injured staffer was […]
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC (Reuters) – The Syrian government forces on Monday vowed to continue their offensive in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor after advancing to the Syrian-Iraqi border in the eastern Syrian desert. After reaching the Syrian-Iraqi border region east of the Syrian city of Homs, the government forces’ next plan was to capture the Al-Tanf border crossing, one of the three official border crossings between Syria and Iraq, from the hands of United […]
by Jocelyne Zablit Agence France Presse A United States appeals court on Monday upheld a decision to block President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting citizens from six Muslim-majority nations — the latest in a string of stinging judicial blows for the Republican president. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit kept in place a lower court injunction on the ban, arguing the president had overstepped his authority and his executive order discriminated against […]
by James Pheby Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom –British Prime Minister Theresa May took the blame for the ruling Conservatives’ disastrous performance at last week’s elections, as she faced her party’s angry MPs on Monday, seeking to ward off any challenge to her leadership. “I got us into this mess, and I’m going to get us out,” May told Conservatives MPs during the meeting in Westminster. May’s Conservatives unexpectedly lost their majority in parliament […]
Reuters – Former National Basketball Association player Dennis Rodman is expected to arrive in North Korea on Tuesday (June 13) for a trip the United States State Department said was not an official US visit, CNN reported on Monday (June 12). Rodman, who has met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on past trips to Pyongyang, declined to answer questions when he was seen by CNN reporters at Beijing International Airport, the network said. […]
CHINA (Reuters) – Typhoon Merbok, the second typhoon of the year, made landfall on the coast of Shenzhen City in south China’s Guangdong Province on Monday night, moving northward at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour. The typhoon brought strong gales to the Dapeng Peninsula where it made landfall at around 23:00 on Monday, with waves of up to five meters high seen belting a pier. Local maritime authorities had earlier banned all ships […]
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) – French “Spiderman” Alain Robert scaled one of the tallest skyscrapers in Barcelona without a harness on Monday. Bystanders and police watched as the 55-year-old climbed up the Melia Barcelona Sky Hotel, a glass and steel covered hotel building known as the fourth tallest tower in the city. The urban climber is famous for his daredevil, harness-free approach to scuttling up buildings with nothing more than some chalk on his hands and […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – Britain’s Theresa May won a stay of execution from her Conservative Party on Monday (June 12) , winning support from disillusioned lawmakers after losing a parliamentary majority at last week’s national election. The prime minister was described as “contrite” at a meeting of Conservative members called the 1922 Committee, apologising to those politicians who lost their seats in an election she did not need to hold and promising to clear […]
