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TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – Japan’s youngest professional shogi player, Sota Fujii, set a historical record of 29 consecutive victories on Monday (June 26) after sitting through an 11-hour game held in Tokyo. The 14-year old has gone undefeated ever since he made his debut last December, stirring renewed public excitement over the traditional game. The board game, often described as “Japanese chess,” is played on a nine-by-nine board with 20 tiles, where the goal is […]
(Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and her royal family are set to see a huge boost to the funding they receive from United Kingdom taxpayers. Official estimates showing the crown’s finances will receive 76 million pounds this year — or 96 million United States dollars — nearly double what they received in the last two years. The money is used on everything from travel expenses to the cost of staff and upkeep of Buckingham Palace and […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief negotiator Mauro Petriccione met his Japanese counterpart Yoichi Suzuki for talks in Tokyo on Tuesday (June 27), as the two economies seek to forge a free-trade agreement. On Monday (June 26), EU trade chief Cecilia Malmstrom said the regional bloc was is in a “very intense phase” in its negotiations with Japan and could sign a provisional deal as early as next week. Petriccione has been in […]
YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) – More than two thousand people in Yokosuka participated in a memorial service held on Tuesday (June 27) for the seven sailors who died when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship. Participants, who included local residents, United States and Japanese military personnel, lined the streets and saluted a row of buses and cars carrying the family members and shipmates of the seven dead sailors, according to the US Navy. Multiple US […]
(Reuters) – A former Massachusetts pharmaceutical company executive was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday (June 26) after being convicted of racketeering and fraud charges for his role in a deadly United States meningitis outbreak in 2012. Barry Cadden, the co-founder and former president of the now-defunct New England Compounding Center, was convicted in March of those crimes by a federal jury in Boston but cleared of the harshest charges he faced, second-degree […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has made a formal protest after Indian border guards crossed from Sikkim state into its Tibetan territory, China’s foreign ministry said Tuesday, accusing them of trespassing. “Our position to uphold our territorial sovereignty is unwavering,” spokesman Lu Kang told a regular briefing, adding China has lodged “solemn representations” with India. “We hope that the Indian side can work with China in the same direction and take actions to withdraw the […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — More rock and mud fell on Tuesday at the site of a major landslide that buried a mountain village and scores of people in southwest China last weekend, state media said. No one was injured in the new and smaller avalanche as the area where Xinmo village once stood had been cordoned off following warnings on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. Rescuers workers who had been digging through the rubble since […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazilian prosecutors filed corruption charges against President Michel Temer on Monday, a step toward possibly making him the country’s first serving leader to face a criminal trial. In a filing to the Supreme Court, the public prosecution service accused Temer of receiving a 500,000-real (about $150,000) bribe from the boss of a meatpacking company implicated in a corruption scandal.
SYRIA (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday (June 26) it appears the Syrian government is preparing for another chemical weapons attack. It warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad he and his military would “pay a heavy price” if it conducts such an attack. The White House statement said preparations by Syria were similar to those undertaken before an April 4 chemical attack that killed dozens of civilians and prompted President Donald Trump to order […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Senate Republicans watched support for their Obamacare repeal bill slide into perilous territory after Monday’s release of a non-partisan report forecasting that the plan would leave 22 million more Americans uninsured by 2026. The legislation introduced last week by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was already in jeopardy, despite expressed optimism by President Donald Trump. With Democrats uniting in opposition to the draft, Republican […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea likened United States President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on Tuesday in its latest diatribe amid high tensions over Pyongyang’s military ambitions and ahead of a visit to Washington by the South’s new leader. The latest attack came a week after nuclear-armed Pyongyang called Trump a “lunatic” as tensions rose following the death of US student Otto Warmbier, who was detained for 18 months in the North and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be preparing a chemical weapons attack that would result in the “mass murder” of civilians, the White House said Monday, warning the regime would pay a “heavy price” if it goes ahead. The White House said the preparations were similar to those undertaken by the Assad regime ahead of an apparent chemical attack on a rebel-held town. Washington launched a strike against a Syrian airbase […]
