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TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Sumiko Iwamuro, whose moniker is DJ Sumirock, is a hit on the Tokyo club scene, spinning records for a crowd some 60 years younger than she is. At 82, DJ Sumirock, performs once a month in the heart of Tokyo’s red-light district. She took up turning tables in her 70s, after spending a year learning the tricks of the trade at a DJ school. On the dance floor, she’s gained the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologized Tuesday for “insensitive” remarks during a press briefing in which he asserted that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons on his own people. “Frankly, I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive comment about the Holocaust and there is no comparison,” Spicer told CNN. “For that I apologize. It was a mistake to do that.” © Agence France-Presse
by Thomas WATKINS Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Monday there is “no doubt” the Syrian regime was behind last week’s deadly chemical strike, while US officials accused Moscow of waging a misinformation campaign around the attack. The charge that Russia is obfuscating who is responsible for the horrific events of April 4 when at least 87 civilians were killed in a rebel-held town came just as US […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s foreign minister will host three-way talks with his counterparts from Syria and Iran this week, Moscow said Tuesday, after the US launched strikes against Syrian forces. “A trilateral meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Syrian minister Walid Muallem and Iranian minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is planned for the end of this week,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
LUCCA, Italy (AFP) — G7 foreign ministers have failed to agree on whether fresh sanctions should be imposed on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or his ally Russia, Italy’s Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Tuesday. “At the moment there is no consensus on new sanctions as an effective instrument,” he said at the close of a two-day meeting in Italy, after his British counterpart Boris Johnson raised the issue with the Group of Seven. “There are […]
by Ilgin Karlidag Agence France Presse Suspected Stockholm truck attacker Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old Uzbek and jihadist sympathizer, admitted Tuesday to committing a “terrorist crime” by mowing down pedestrians on a busy street, killing four people and injuring 15 others. “Akilov confesses to a terrorist crime and accepts his custody detention,” his lawyer Johan Eriksson told a custody hearing in a Stockholm district court. Akilov, who was arrested in a Stockholm suburb just hours after Friday’s […]
Sweden’s Eagle News Service correspondent, Pauline Bautista, a Filipina, recalls the horror and shock of witnessing first hand the tragic truck attack in the country’s capital of Stockholm. Bautista recalled how the bus she was riding in stopped just in the nick of time, a few seconds before the “terror truck” passed through and rammed the crowd on the busy street. The people were crying, shouting, running. Some were frantically calling the police or […]
by Joe Dyke Agence France Presse ABOARD INS HANIT, Israel (AFP) — White specks appear on the horizon and a voice crackles over the radio with a warning: “The speed boat is acting independently.” Two boats on suicide bombing missions had been spotted on either side of the INS Hanit, one of the Israeli navy’s top warships. “We recognize the target. This is an immediate enemy,” a voice says in Hebrew over the loudspeaker. “Ready […]
by Nova Safo Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — United Airlines found itself in the middle of a social media storm on Monday, after the US carrier forcibly removed a passenger from a flight due to overbooking. The incident occurred Sunday on a United Express flight bound for Louisville, Kentucky, from Chicago. United Express flights are operated by one of eight regional airlines which partner with United. The airline said it had asked […]
https://youtu.be/0TOcXF-7biA People flock to the tragic scene of the April 7 terror truck attack in the heart of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, where four people were killed and 15 were injured. With flowers and prayers, the mourners wrote their messages of love and peace on colorful sticky notes that they placed on a wall of Ahlens department store at the corner of the Drottninggatan pedestrian street, where a stolen beer truck mowed […]
Reuters — A special education teacher and one of her students were fatally shot Monday (April 10) by her estranged husband when he opened fire with a high-caliber revolver before killing himself in her classroom at a San Bernardino, California, elementary school, police said. A second student was badly wounded by the gunman, who authorities said had a criminal history that included weapons charges and domestic violence that predated his brief marriage to the slain […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea denounced Washington’s deployment of a naval strike group to the Korean peninsula Tuesday, warning it was ready for “war” in a further escalation of tensions. The Carl Vinson strike group cancelled a planned trip to Australia this weekend to head to the region, in a show of force as Washington signalled it may act to shut down Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities. “This goes to prove that the US reckless […]
