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(AFP) — Republican Karen Handel won a fierce, closely watched special congressional election Tuesday in Georgia, US media projected, salvaging a seat in traditional conservative territory where Democrats had hoped to strike a blow against Donald Trump’s presidency. With about 83 percent of the vote counted, Handel was ahead with 52.6 percent of the vote compared with 47.4 percent for Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, prompting CNN and NBC News to call the race in Handel’s […]
ASAKA CITY, Japan (Reuters) — Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) held on Wednesday (June 21) a drill operating the anti-ballistic missile PAC-3 and other associated military equipment amid increasing tensions with North Korea which has been increasing the number of its missiles test launches in recent months. The showing of the drill, which involved self-defense personnel setting up and operating a PAC-3 launch pad and associated equipment such as a Radar Set and an Antenna Mast […]
HONGKONG, China (Reuters) — Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd said on Tuesday (June 20) that its chairman Li Ka-shing was in “very good health,” but stopped short of denying a Wall Street Journal report that he plans to step down by next year. Li, who will be 89 in July, anointed his eldest son Victor, 52, as his successor five years ago. His eventual retirement has been long awaited and would mark the […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Paris glistened in the heat as temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius on Tuesday (June 20), but the peak in weather did not stop tourists from enjoying the city and visiting the Eiffel Tower under a roasting sun, albeit with a quick dip in the fountain at its feet. The heat over the past month has beaten various records for this period of the year in France, according to French weather sites […]
GUATEMALA City, Guatemala (AFP) — A mudslide in an indigenous village in Guatemala killed 11 people and injured at least nine more on Tuesday, the emergency services said. Heavy rains caused the mudslide that swept away five houses in the western village of San Pedro Soloma, said the head of the National Disaster Reduction Coordinator, Sergio Cabanas. Television footage from the scene showed people searching through the wreckage of the village, in a mountainous area […]
by Robin Millard Agence France Presse Police on Tuesday questioned a man suspected of deliberately mowing down Muslims in London, as the interior minister said Britain was “bruised but not broken” by a string of terror attacks. Britain was coming to terms with the aftermath of its fourth bloody assault in three months following Monday’s van attack on people leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London. The family of Darren Osborne, the man […]
by Clément Zampa / Alex Pigman Agence France Presse Belgian soldiers shot a terror suspect after an explosion rocked the central train station in Brussels on Tuesday in the latest attack to hit Europe. Witnesses said the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) before causing the blast, with local media saying the individual had activated an explosive belt. Authorities reported no casualties, apart from the attacker who was killed in the confrontation. Crying passengers […]
by Andrew Beatty Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump called the death of one-time North Korean prisoner Otto Warmbier a “total disgrace” Tuesday and appeared to take a swipe at the Obama administration for failing to bring the American student home before it was too late. Sentenced to hard labor for stealing a political poster from a North Korean hotel, the 22-year-old Warmbier was medically evacuated in a coma last […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea’s military conducted a joint drill with two United States supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers on Tuesday (June 20) as part of a scheduled exercise. At an earlier briefing, a South Korean air force official told reporters the drill will also involve two South Korean F-15K fighter jets. Photos released by the US Department of Defense on Tuesday shows B-1B lancers flying a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — A suspect shouted out “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) before causing an explosion at a Brussels railway station on Tuesday, a witness said. “I went down to the mezzanine level, someone was shouting. Then he cried ‘Allahu Akbar’, and he blew up a trolley,” Nicolas Van Herrewegen, a railway sorting agent, told reporters. “I was behind a wall when it exploded. I went down and alerted my colleagues to evacuate everyone. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — An explosion rocked the central train station in Brussels on Tuesday and a man was shot by police during the incident, prosecutors told Belgian media. The incident took place around 1900 GMT, causing the city’s Gare Centrale to be evacuated. The nearby Grand Place, a major tourist destination, was also evacuated. “A crowd panicked in the station and ran for the tracks after an incident,” said Arnaud Reyman, spokesperson for Infrabel, […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — A United States warplane shot down an Iranian-made drone operated by pro-regime forces in Syria early Tuesday, officials said, prompting growing international concern over rising tensions between the two sides. Russia, a key ally of the Syrian regime, accused the US-led coalition of “complicity with terrorism” after the drone was downed in southern Syria. It comes days after a US warplane shot down a Syrian government fighter jet in the north […]
