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Sydney, Australia | AFP | A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck in the sea off Tonga late Friday, according to the US Geological Survey, sparking a tsunami warning that was later lifted. The USGS said the quake hit 10 kilometres (six miles) deep, about 200 kilometres southeast of Neiafu, a town in the northeast of the Pacific archipelago nation, shortly before midnight local time (1100 GMT). It initially gave the magnitude at 7.1, but later revised […]
Strong Earthquake In the Tonga Islands Region; Tsunami Advisory Issued For American Samoa For more information see https://t.co/c9d70XmEZF pic.twitter.com/3zVSFItTai — National Weather Service (@NWS) November 11, 2022 Notable quake, preliminary info: M 7.1 – 207 km ESE of Neiafu, Tonga https://t.co/fTPzMTjV8D — USGS Earthquakes (@USGS_Quakes) November 11, 2022 We are assessing whether the M7.5 TONGA REGION earthquake poses any tsunami threat to New Zealand. If a tsunami has been generated it is not […]
Speaking on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Cambodia, Indonesian President Joko Widodo says the Southeast Asian bloc must not be ‘held hostage’ to the situation in Myanmar, which has been under military rule since a coup last year.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | by Damon WAKE Southeast Asian leaders agreed Friday to engage Myanmar opposition groups as they seek ways to quell the country’s escalating bloodshed which has seen thousands killed in clashes since last year’s coup. The Myanmar crisis dominated the first day of a gathering of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc in Phnom Penh that US President Joe Biden will join on Saturday. Myanmar has […]
Beijing, China | AFP | Xi Jinping will attend the G20 summit in Indonesia next week and meet his US counterpart Joe Biden, Beijing’s foreign ministry confirmed on Friday, in their first in-person talks since the Chinese president sealed a historic third term as leader last month. The two met prior to Biden taking office in January 2021 and have spoken by phone a number of times since then, but the Covid-19 pandemic and […]
Manila, Philippines | AFP | Seven people have been killed in fighting between the Philippine military and Muslim rebels in the country’s south, authorities said Thursday, in one of the deadliest clashes since a landmark peace pact was signed in 2014. The ongoing fighting broke out Tuesday in Basilan island province, off the main southern island of Mindanao, following what the military said was a “miscommunication” between its soldiers and members of the Moro Islamic […]
Beijing, China | AFP | by Laurie CHEN / Matthew WALSH China announced the relaxation of some of its hardline Covid-19 restrictions on Friday, after authorities had vowed to stick to a zero-tolerance virus approach despite mounting economic damage. The country is the last major economy welded to a strategy of stamping out virus flare-ups as they occur, through a combination of snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines. Top leaders had pledged to […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | Southeast Asian leaders agreed on Friday to allow East Timor to join the 10-nation ASEAN regional bloc, according to a statement released by summit host Cambodia. “We the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations… agreed in principle to admit Timor-Leste to be the 11th member of ASEAN,” the statement said. East Timor is the youngest country in Southeast Asia, having gained independence from Indonesia in 2002 […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | by Damon WAKE The escalating crisis in Myanmar was set to dominate summit talks Friday between Southeast Asian leaders struggling to find a way to calm the bloodshed in the junta-ruled country. Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc will discuss ways to implement a peace plan agreed with Myanmar last year which the junta has so far ignored. Myanmar has spiralled into bloody conflict […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | AFP | by Rose TROUP BUCHANAN World leaders attending a summit in Phnom Penh will receive Cambodian-made watches from host Hun Sen, a noted fan of luxury timepieces. The gift to VIPs at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asian Summit gatherings has raised eyebrows in a country with no history of watchmaking. US President Joe Biden and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang are among the guests over three […]
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt | AFP | by Marlowe HOOD Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change, are on track to rise one percent in 2022 to reach an all-time high, scientists said Friday at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt. Emissions from oil, fuelled by the continuing rebound in aviation, will likely rise more than two percent compared to last year, while emissions from coal — thought by some […]
Sydney, Australia | AFP | Russian hackers were behind a cyberattack on a major Australian healthcare company that breached the data of 9.7 million people, including the country’s prime minister, police said Friday. The hackers started leaking the data earlier this week after Medibank — the country’s largest health insurer — refused to pay a US$9.7 million (Aus$15 million) ransom. Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw blamed the attack on Russia-based “cyber criminals”. “We believe […]
