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by Anna Maria Jakubek Agence France Presse WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — UNESCO on Friday declared the Old City of Hebron a Palestinian world heritage site in danger, sparking outrage from Israel which said the decision denied a Jewish claim to an ancient burial cave that is also sacred to Muslims. The Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Muslims as the Ibrahami Mosque, is venerated by members of both faiths as the gravesite of the biblical […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — United States warplanes have flown over the disputed South China Sea, the US Air Force said Friday, a move aimed at asserting freedom of navigation rights in the hotly-contested area. The flights come as both US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend the G-20 meeting in Hamburg. A US B1-B bomber and two F-15 fighters with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force departed Guam’s Andersen Air Force Base and […]
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — The G20 group of major economies agreed Friday to redouble efforts to tackle the financing of extremist groups, in a rare point of agreement during a fractious summit in Germany. The countries issued a joint statement condemning the “scourge” of terrorism funding, and praised the work already undertaken to shut off sources of finance for illicit groups. “We underline our resolve to make the international financial system entirely hostile to terrorist […]
by Simon Sturdee and Hui Min Neo HAMSBURG, Germany (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin engaged in a “very robust exchange” over claims Moscow meddled in America’s elections, during their first face-to-face talks Friday at a fractious G20 summit marred by violent street protests. From the outset of the blockbuster encounter, the US property tycoon fired the key question that has weighed on his presidency, pressing the ex-KGB agent […]
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — Russia and the United States have agreed to a ceasefire in southwest Syria starting from midday on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Friday. “Today in Amman Russian, American and Jordanian experts… agreed on a memorandum of understanding to create a de-escalation zone” in the regions of Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida, Lavrov said. “There will be a ceasefire in this zone from midday Damascus time on July 9.” Lavrov was […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – China opposes the use of freedom of overflight as an excuse to harm its security, the country’s foreign ministry said on Friday (July 7), after two United States bombers flew over the disputed South China Sea. The flight by the B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam on Thursday (July 6) came as US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare for a meeting on the sidelines of a G20 summit […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s chief atomic energy regulator has acknowledged it was inappropriate to say it would be “much better” if North Korea dropped a missile on Tokyo rather than on a nuclear plant. Shunichi Tanaka, head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), found himself in hot water on Thursday after he spoke to people living near a recently restarted reactor. “If it were me, I think it would be much better to drop (a missile) on central Tokyo,” said Tanaka. He was speaking about a […]
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin exchanged a handshake for the first time on Friday as they arrived for the G20 summit in Germany, the Kremlin said. “They shook hands and said they will meet separately and see each other soon,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The billionaire tycoon and the ex-KGB agent’s meeting later Thursday in the German port city of Hamburg promises to be […]
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — Protesters clashed with police, torched patrol cars and blocked roads in the German city of Hamburg on Friday in fresh violence just before the start of the G20 summit, police said. “An operation is under way against violent individuals” who threw petrol bombs and set fire to patrol cars near a police station in the city’s Altona district, federal police said on Twitter. In the west of the city, a “plume of black smoke” was […]
by Andrew Beatty and Hui Min Neo Agence France Presse United States President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were to meet Friday for the first time in a highly-awaited encounter at a G20 summit marked by divisive issues, a rift between America and its Western allies and violent protests. New clashes erupted outside the fortified venue where leaders of the world’s biggest economies were gathering, after a demonstration late Thursday degenerated into […]
Hamburg, Germany (Reuters) — Protesters and police braced for another day of action on Friday (July 7) hours before the official start of the G20 summit in the German city of Hamburg. Protesters are trying to make their way close to the summit venue where leaders from the world’s top economies will be gathering to try and bridge deep differences with United States President Donald Trump on climate change and trade. The meeting in the […]
Tokyo, Japan (Reuters) — The death toll in western Japan’s flooding disaster has risen to at least six, a government spokesman said on Friday (July 7), while thousands of rescuers, some in helicopters, searched for survivors. Parts of Fukuoka, on the southwestern island of Kyushu, were hit by 593 mm (23 inches) of rain in the 48 hours to 9:00 a.m. Friday (midnight GMT), well over the rainfall of a usual July, the meteorological agency said. […]
