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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 11 people were killed Sunday when a bus rammed into several other vehicles in Indonesia’s West Java province after a suspected brake failure, police said. The bus hit four cars and motorbikes before tumbling down a slope. The bus driver and some of the motorists were among the dead. The accident in Cianjur district, 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of Jakarta, also injured nearly 50 people. Transport accidents are […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Friday assailed North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch as a show of disrespect toward its ally China. “North Korea disrespected the wishes of China & its highly respected President when it launched, though unsuccessfully, a missile today. Bad!” Trump wrote on Twitter a few hours after the failed launch. © Agence France-Presse
NAGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) — The French naval ship Mistral arrived at Japan’s southern city of Nagasaki on Saturday (April 29) to participate in a four-nation military drill by Japan, the U.S., the U.K., and France. A welcoming ceremony was held by Japanese Self Defence force personnel, where the captain of Mistral Stanislas De Chargeres gave a speech. Children performed a traditional Japanese dance called Yosakoi to welcome the French officers. Just hours before the Mistral’s […]
Reuters — In a show of force, the United States is sending the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to waters off the Korean peninsula, where it will join the USS Michigan, a nuclear submarine that docked in South Korea on Tuesday. South Korea’s navy has said it will hold drills with the U.S. strike group. The U.S. Navy released a video on Friday (April 28) showing the carrier group sailing in what it said […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump said Friday he’s “happy” with his achievements on the eve of his 100 days as president of the United States, despite an admission the job’s harder than he expected. “I have to tell you, I don’t think anybody has done what we’ve been able to do in 100 days, so we’re very happy,” he told reporters after signing an executive order in the White House. “We’re getting a […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) — Clashes broke out in Rio de Janeiro on Friday (April 28) as Brazilian unions led the nation’s first general strike in over two decades to protest President Michel Temer’s austerity measures, hitting public transport and closing schools, factories, banks and other businesses in every state. Even so, analysts and government officials said the strike would have little impact on Temer’s efforts to push economic reforms through Congress, which are […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile Saturday in apparent defiance of a US push for tougher international sanctions to curb the Asian country’s nuclear threat. “North Korea fired an unidentified missile from a site in the vicinity of Bukchang in Pyeongannam-do (South Pyeongan Province) early this morning,” the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported, adding that the missile “is estimated to have failed.” A US defense official confirmed North Korea […]
KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukraine on Friday launched a process to return some $1.5 billion in assets allegedly stolen from the budget by the deposed Russian-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych and his team. The National Security and Defense Council said the state savings bank had begun confiscating the old regime’s holdings in line with an earlier court ruling. Council chief Oleksandr Turchynov said the $1.5 billion (1.4 billion euros) would be returned to the state budget. Ukrainian […]
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters on Thursday (April 27) that Seoul should pay for a U.S. anti-missile system that he priced at $1 billion. In an interview with Reuters, Trump said the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system now being deployed in South Korea to defend against a potential missile attack from North Korea would cost about $1 billion and questioned why the United States was paying for […]
by Anna MALPAS Agence France-Presse MOSCOW, Russia – President Vladimir Putin on Thursday agreed to start flights for former residents to visit a disputed island chain as he and Japanese premier Shinzo Abe again struggled to make progress on a decades-old territorial dispute. Russia and Japan have been blocked from signing a formal treaty to end World War II hostilities for seven decades over the island disagreement, hampering closer ties. The Soviet Union seized the […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China said on Thursday (April 27) it was positive that the United States is open to resolving tensions over North Korea through talks. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang made the comment at a regular news briefing in Beijing. The Trump administration said on Wednesday it aimed to push North Korea into dismantling its nuclear and missile programs through tougher international sanctions and diplomatic pressure, and remained open to negotiations to bring […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Children account for one-third of civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s grinding conflict in the first three months of 2017, and are paying an increasingly high price in the fighting, a UN report said Thursday in Kabul. From January to March, 210 children were killed — up 17 percent from the same period last year — and 525 injured, out of a total of 2,181 civilian casualties (715 dead and 1,466 injured). The […]
