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UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — North Korea on Wednesday delivered a rare statement at the United Nations Security Council, accusing the United States of attaching “unjust” conditions to its offer of talks on Pyongyang’s military programs. Deputy Ambassador Kim in Ryong said it would be a “fatal miscalculation” by countries to believe that the latest sanctions imposed by the council will deter North Korea from developing its nuclear forces. “Their mean and indiscreet act […]
(Reuters) — Both the United States and Russia have made clear that they have been trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into the Syrian conflict, a Syrian analyst said Tuesday. Despite the efforts to reach a political settlement for the Syrian crisis, the situation on the ground has grown increasingly complex over the past few months. In mid-March, Syrian government forces and the opposition engaged in the most intense fighting in almost a year in […]
(Reuters) – Top experts kept a close eye on a major global cyber attack that swept the world, as they gathered on Wednesday (June 28) in Tel Aviv for an annual cyber security conference. The attack disrupted computers at Russia’s biggest oil company, Ukrainian banks and multinational firms with a virus similar to the ransomware that infected more than 300,000 computers last month. The rapidly spreading cyber extortion campaign, which began on Tuesday (June 27), […]
by Joanna Chiu Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — The new United States ambassador to Beijing, known for his friendship with China’s president, said Wednesday he wanted terminally-ill dissident Liu Xiaobo to get treatment abroad, as Taiwan offered to care for the Nobel laureate. Ambassador Terry Branstad arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, one day after Liu’s lawyer revealed that prison authorities granted the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate medical parole after diagnosing him with […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Six suspected members of the Islamic State group were arrested in Spain, Britain and Germany on Wednesday in an operation led by Spanish authorities investigating a jihadist recruiting network, the Spanish interior ministry said. Raids were continuing Wednesday morning targeting the group, based on the island of Majorca and led by an Islamist imam, who was arrested in Britain, the ministry said in a statement. The imam, 44, was the target […]
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (Reuters) — The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags were raised on a permanent basis at Sydney’s Government House on Wednesday (June 28) in support of national reconciliation. The governor of New South Wales, David Hurley, said that the event was significant especially in light of the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 referendum that saw Aborigines included in population census figures. He said it was significant also in the wake of the 25th anniversary […]
CHINA (Reuters) – A Chinese mainland spokesman on Wednesday condemned Taiwan authorities for attempting to distort history in textbooks. Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman of the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office, told a media briefing on Wednesday that Taiwan’s history is an organic component of the history of China and the separatist de-Sinicizing activities have aroused strong indignation from the people in Taiwan. It was earlier reported that Taiwan authorities want to put the history of China […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) – An elderly passenger who threw coins at the engine of a plane at a Shanghai airport for good luck will not face police action, Chinese state media said on Wednesday. The superstitious 80-year-old woman delayed the China Southern Airlines flight on Tuesday for nearly six hours after she tossed nine coins at the engine from the tarmac while boarding, with one nestling inside. Police at Shanghai Pudong International Airport said the […]
NEPALGUNJ, Nepal (AFP) – Nepal’s troubled south began voting Wednesday in the first local elections for two decades, a key stage in the country’s post-war transformation from feudal monarchy to federal democracy. The elections began last month in other parts of the nation but were repeatedly delayed in the southern plains, which were hit by deadly protests two years ago. The Madhesi ethnic minority says federal boundaries set by a new national constitution will leave them […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) — Drama broke out at Venezuela’s National Assembly on Tuesday (June 27) where two dozen lawmakers said they were being besieged by pro-government gangs. Video that emerged on social media showed National Guard troops outside the National Assembly as opposition legislators shouted. The National Assembly chaos came as a Venezuelan police helicopter attacked the Supreme Court, ratcheting up a political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro condemned as a “terrorist” attack. There […]
by Natsuko Fukue Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – Three former executives at Fukushima’s operator stand trial this week on the only criminal charges laid in the 2011 disaster, as thousands remain unable to return to homes near the shuttered nuclear plant. The hearing on Friday comes more than a year after ex-Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 77, and former vice presidents Sakae Muto, 66, and Ichiro Takekuro, 71, were formally charged with professional […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Reuters) – Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday (June 27) said a meeting between Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump on healthcare was helpful as he expressed optimism the Senate would eventually pass a bill to repeal Obamacare. “I think the meeting was very helpful,” McConnell said as he left the meeting at the White House. “I think everyone around the table is interested in getting to yes … because […]
