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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Six of Japan’s best-known carmakers including Nissan and Honda used products from Kobe Steel, a report said Wednesday, after the firm admitted to falsifying quality data in a growing scandal. Business daily Nikkei said Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru and Mazda had also used products from Kobe Steel in their vehicles. Auto giant Toyota has already said that Kobe Steel supplied materials to one of its Japanese factories, which used them in hoods, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean computer hackers have stolen hundreds of classified military documents from South Korea including detailed wartime operational plans involving its US ally, a report said Tuesday. Rhee Cheol-Hee, a lawmaker for the ruling Democratic party, said the hackers broke into the South’s military network in September last year and gained access to 235 gigabytes of sensitive data, the Chosun Ilbo daily reported. Among the leaked documents was Operational Plans […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday refused to tell a radio station whether she would back EU membership in another referendum, as she leads her country out of the bloc. “I don’t answer hypothetical questions,” May told LBC radio station when asked how she would vote if a Brexit referendum were held now. The prime minister said she had “good reasons” when she backed European Union membership in the 2016 vote, […]
NEW JERSEY, United States (Reuters) — They are real diamonds. That’s what the industry behind diamonds made inside a scientific laboratory wants you to believe. “All the composition is exactly the same. It is a real diamond. What we’ve done is we’ve just taken what’s happened in nature and just put it in a lab,” said Kelly Good, the director of marketing for Pure Grown Diamonds. Currently, the lab-grown diamond industry is small, but it […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an end to the death penalty Tuesday, insisting it has “no place in the 21st century.” He urged member-states that still execute convicts to join the 170 countries that have halted or abolished the practice, warning that the risk of a miscarriage of justice is an “unacceptably high price” to pay. “I want to make a plea to all states that continue this […]
by Frankie Taggart Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Italian film star Asia Argento and two other women claim that disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein raped them, in a bombshell New Yorker expose published on Tuesday. The women’s allegations against the 65-year-old movie mogul, according to the magazine, include unwanted oral sex and forced oral and full sex. Weinstein denies all charges, according to a statement from his spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister, circulated among […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Two US astronauts installed a high-definition video camera at the International Space Station Tuesday and made more progress on repairs to the lab’s robotic arm, NASA said. NASA spokesman Rob Navias described the camera equipment as offering “new eyes” to the orbiting outpost, as live video showed astronaut Randy Bresnik in sharp detail, floating in his white spacesuit. The previous camera had aged, and was tinting images pink. Another camera […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — For parents raising children in urban environments, the quality of air their little ones breathe can be a big concern. Recent studies have linked infants exposed to higher levels of vehicular air pollution with lung problems later on in life. It was this concern for his own daughter that prompted Yosi Romano to invent Brizi Baby, a cushioned headrest for a baby’s pushchair with in-built sensors and a fan filter […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid sealed a five-year contract extension on Tuesday, with the injury-plagued Cameroon-born star saying he hoped to finish his career with the team. The 76ers did not confirm the financial terms of the deal but several US media outlets reported that Embiid stands to earn $148 million (125.3 million euros) over the course of the extension. If confirmed, that would mean Embiid, 23, is being […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The National Football League said Tuesday it wanted players to stand during the US anthem as it attempts to quell the controversy which has dogged the sport since the opening weeks of the season. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sent a memo to teams reiterating the league’s preference for players to stand for renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner. “Like many of our fans, we believe that everyone should stand for […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on Tuesday said they were “disgusted” by the growing allegations of sexual misconduct by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, a longtime Democratic Party donor. “Michelle and I have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein. Any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable, regardless of wealth or status,” they said in […]
by with Dave Clark in Washington, Stuart Williams and Fulya Ozerkan Agence France-Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Tuesday that Turkish officials will boycott the US ambassador, deepening one of the worst rifts in decades between the NATO allies. Erdogan said Turkey no longer regarded outgoing envoy John Bass as the US representative to Turkey after American missions in the country stopped issuing visas. The dispute erupted last week when Turkey arrested a […]
