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by Jerome Cartillier with Park Chan-Kyong in Seoul Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday warned North Korea it should be “very, very nervous” of the consequences if it even thinks of attacking United States soil, after nuclear-armed Pyongyang said it was readying missile launch plans on the Pacific territory of Guam. The Republican billionaire dismissed any criticism of his “fire and fury” warning, saying it possibly “wasn’t tough […]
Jiuzhaigou County, China (CCTV) — Death toll from a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck a remote area in southwest China’s Sichuan Province Tuesday night has risen to 20. As of 12:00 Thursday, the quake has also left 431 others injured, according to the information office of the provincial government. The quake jolted Jiuzhaigou County, a popular tourist destination, at 21:19 Tuesday at a depth of 20 km. Search and rescue operations are under way, the office […]
Jiuzhaigou County, China (CCTV) — The 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday caused mountain collapse and road destruction inside the scenic spot Jiuzhaigou Valley, in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, according to a China Central Television (CCTV) reporter who walked into the valley with firefighters on Wednesday afternoon. The video shot by the CCTV reporter shows that rocks kept falling down from mountains. Long cracks appeared on roads; and some sections of roads even sank. Many trees toppled […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The Japanese government said Thursday it “can never tolerate” provocations from North Korea after the country’s military said it was finalizing a plan to launch missiles towards Guam that would fly over Japan. “North Korea’s provocative actions, including this time, are obviously provocative to the region including Japan as well as to the security of the international community,” Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s chief government spokesman, told reporters. “We can never tolerate this.” Japan has […]
JIUZHAIGOU COUNTY, China (Reuters) — Evacuations continued on Thursday (August 10) after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck a remote, mountainous part of China’s southwestern province of Sichuan, killing 19 people, including eight tourists, and injuring 263, state newspaper Global times said. The quake hit a sparsely populated area 200 kilometers (120 miles) northwest of the city of Guangyuan late on Tuesday (August 8) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), the United States Geological Survey […]
Cancún, Mexico (AFP) — Tropical storm Franklin strengthened to a category-one hurricane as it raged towards Mexico for a second assault on Wednesday, the United States National Hurricane Center said. The NHC said in a report that Franklin was over the Gulf of Mexico 170 kilometers (105 miles) from the major port city of Veracruz. Franklin struck Mexico’s eastern Yucatan peninsula on Monday and was expected to make landfall again in the province of Veracruz […]
by Alexander Martinez The United States imposed new sanctions on crisis-hit Venezuela, targeting members of a controversial, all-powerful, loyalist assembly installed last week to bolster what Washington calls the “dictatorship” of President Nicolas Maduro. The measures were aimed at six members of the so-called Constituent Assembly — among them the brother of late president Hugo Chavez — as well as a military officer in charge of security for the body, and a board member of […]
North Korea is working on plans for a missile strike near the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam targeted at “mid-August,” according to Pyongyang’s state-run KCNA news agency which cited a North Korean army official. The army will complete its plans in mid-August, ready for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s order, General Kim Rak Gyom, commander of the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army said on Wednesday (August 9). The news agency issued […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Thursday said United States President Donald Trump was “bereft of reason” and would only respond to force, as it elaborated on a threat to attack the US Pacific territory of Guam. Trump this week stunned the world with a bold-faced message to Kim Jong-Un, saying his country faced “fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Pyongyang then said it was working on a plan to […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French security forces have shot and arrested a man suspected of being behind an attack on soldiers in a Paris suburb on Wednesday, security sources told AFP. The man, aged in his late 30s, was intercepted on a motorway north of the French capital in the vehicle used to drive into the soldiers, the sources said, asking not to be named because they were not authorised to speak. One source […]
by Gina Doggett Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — French police launched a manhunt on Wednesday after a car rammed into soldiers near their barracks outside Paris, injuring six people, two of them seriously. Police were scrambling to track down the vehicle, which took off after the incident described by local mayor Patrick Balkany as “without a doubt a deliberate act.” The incident took place around 8:00 am (0600 GMT) outside a military barracks […]
Kyoko Hasegawa Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nagasaki must be the last place to suffer an atomic bombing, its mayor said Wednesday, marking 72 years since the devastating American nuclear attack on the Japanese city with a passionate call for denuclearization. The anniversary comes as tensions over North Korea’s rogue weapons program and increasingly bellicose rhetoric from United States president Donald Trump rattle the region and put nuclear threats in the spotlight. “A […]
