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CHINA (Reuters) — Economic indicators show stable growth in the Chinese economy in April. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the economic data of industry, retail sales, investment and service industry in Beijing on Monday. China’s value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, expanded 6.5 percent year on year in April, 0.5 percentage points higher than the same month of last year, according to the NBS. China’s retail sales reached 2.73 trillion yuan in […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Europol, the law enforcement agency of the European Union finds worrying the increasing number of victims of a cyber-attack called “ransomware.” More than 200, 000 victims from 150 countries have been recorded at present. https://youtu.be/2SNj71DeDXU
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Seventeen prisoners have been shot dead after a mass breakout at a jail in Papua New Guinea, police said Monday, with 57 still on the run. Inmates from the Buimo jail in the Pacific nation’s second largest city of Lae made a dash for freedom after breaking out of their compound on Friday, with prison warders opening fire. The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary said in a statement 17 were killed, […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters)– Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday chaired the Leaders’ Roundtable Summit at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing. The summit was attended by 29 heads of state and government, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim, and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde. “I welcome all of you to the Yanqi Lake for the Roundtable Summit of the […]
by Kiki Siregar Agence France-Presse BOGOR, Indonesia (AFP) – Tiny Indonesian baby Maryamah stared around from inside an incubator, her bright eyes swivelling left and right from under a woollen hat that was far too big for her. When she was born prematurely, Maryamah was just 1.2 kilograms (2.6 pounds), less than half the usual weight of a newborn in Indonesia. Now safely back at home, she is still diminutive but nestles comfortably in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Troubled conglomerate Toshiba on Monday said it will delay reporting its annual earnings for the past fiscal year, but warned it is on track to book a net loss of 950 billion yen ($8.4 billion). The delay comes after one of Japan’s best-known companies twice postponed its nine-month earnings before releasing unaudited results last month. The delays have stirred fears that the huge conglomerate’s shares could be delisted from the Tokyo […]
by Robin Millard Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Governments and computer experts girded Monday for a possible worsening of the global cyberattack that has hit more than 150 countries, as Microsoft warned against stockpiling vulnerabilities like the one at the heart of the crisis. European policing and security agencies said the fallout from a ransomware attack that has already crippled more than 200,000 computers around the world could deepen as people return for another […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — New French President Emmanuel Macron went for a walkabout outside Paris town hall on Sunday (May 14) to greet well-wishers in the last stop of a busy inauguration day. He was welcomed by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and pledged to nurture success across the French territory during his five-year term in front of an audience of Parisians. Macron took power as president of France on Sunday morning, vowing to restore the […]
AVDIYIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) — Monitors on Sunday (May 14) inspected a household in the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiyivka which was damaged by artillery fire a day earlier. Members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission inspected the attack site and spoke with local residents who witnessed the incident. Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday (May 13) that four civilians were killed in renewed artillery attacks in the east of the […]
ADENDRO, Greece (Reuters) — Three people died and 10 more were injured when a train derailed in northern Greece on Saturday night (May 13) and ripped through a house, police said on Sunday (May 14). At least two carriages crashed into the ground floor of a house, ramming through its walls. Other carriages toppled onto their sides with windows smashed. It was unclear what caused the accident. The train carrying 70 passengers and five crew […]
by Brian KNOWLTON Agence France-Presse Democrats kept up the pressure on Donald Trump Sunday over his firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey, as members of both parties said the president must turn over any secret recordings of the two men’s conversations. Trump tweeted Friday that “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” White House spokespersons later refused to say whether […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AFP) – North Korea’s latest missile launch was a successful test of a new type of rocket, Pyongyang’s state media reported Monday. Sunday’s launch was of a “newly-developed mid/long-range strategic ballistic rocket, Hwasong-12,” the official KCNA news agency said, adding that leader Kim Jong-Un “personally oversaw the test-launch of the new type of rocket.” The isolated North is under multiple sets of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs, which […]
