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UNITED STATES (AFP) – The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday after North Korea said it had successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile, diplomats said. The United States — which confirmed it was an ICBM launch — backed by Japan and South Korea, requested the urgent meeting that is scheduled for 3 pm (1900 GMT). North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un oversaw the launch of the Hwasong-14 missile which experts […]
RUSSIA (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have signed a joint statement to further deepen their comprehensive strategic partnership. Under historic new conditions, the two countries will be devoted to further consolidating their relations based on equality, mutual support, common prosperity and an enduring friendship, and will seek to promote deeper political mutual trust, practical cooperation, security cooperation, people-to-people exchanges and international coordination, the document signed on Tuesday in […]
CHINA (Reuters) – Floods triggered by a continuous bout of heavy rain have killed 27 people with 8 missing in central China’s Hunan Province, local authorities announced Tuesday. The floods have also affected over 11 million people and caused a direct economic loss of nearly 29.5 billion yuan, according to the latest data released by Hunan Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters at a press briefing. The heavy rain, which started on June 22, […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) – The leader of the rebel group Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) was released Tuesday from a hospital where he was treated after he suffered a mild stroke, the government said Tuesday. After spending two days in the hospital, Rodrigo Londono has now travelled to Cuba to continue his convalescence, the high commissioner for the country’s peace process said. Doctors said the FARC leader, 58, checked himself into a hospital in Villavicencio in […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) – Guatemala will extradite Mexican ex-governor Javier Duarte for him to face racketeering and money-laundering charges after he told a court Tuesday he wanted to return home to clear his name. Duarte is known for presiding over an explosion of violence and human rights abuses in the eastern state of Veracruz from 2010 to 2016, when he abruptly resigned and went into hiding. Arrested at a lakeside resort in Guatemala in […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) – Lawyers for Brazil’s President Michel Temer said they will present their defense Wednesday against corruption charges that threaten to drive Temer from office. Temer’s defense team will make its case to a committee in Congress that will draw up a recommendation on whether he should face trial over the allegations. “There will be a written submission followed by an oral defense,” one of the lawyers, Gustavo Bonini Guedes, told AFP. Temer […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he “respect(ed)” the dissenting opinions of some Supreme Court justices with respect to the declaration of martial law in Mindanao. He also noted, however, that “it (was) a very shortsighted thing,” considering the fact that Marawi, where local terrorists inspired by the Islamic State launched offensives on May 23 in a bid to carve out a province for the international terrorist group, was located in Central Mindanao. “You have […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The Miami Heat officially waived forward Chris Bosh on Tuesday, the same day the NBA club announced that they would eventually retire his jersey. The 11-time all-star missed the 2016-17 season after he failed a preseason physical due to a blood clot issue. “He is, without a doubt, one of the greatest players in the history of the franchise. The number ‘1’ will never be worn by another player and […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte assured the man whose family of five was murdered in their house in San Jose del Monte that justice would be done, noting that criminals had nowhere to hide in the country. “Kahit saan ka magtago, I will catch up with you. Pag kriminal ka, mahirap buhayin ang kriminal. Isang kriminal dito kinakailangan may relatives sila sa kabilang bayan,” Duterte said in an interview with reporters after he visited […]
by David Harding Agence France Presse DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Qatar said Tuesday the demands of Arab rivals in a Gulf diplomatic crisis were impossible to meet, ahead of talks in Egypt between Saudi Arabia and allies that have cut ties with Doha. Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani told a press conference in Doha that the list of conditions for restoring relations “is unrealistic and is not actionable.” “It’s not about terrorism, […]
SEOUL, North Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of carrying a “large, heavy nuclear warhead” that can survive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, its official news agency said Wednesday. The device, launched on Tuesday in a watershed moment for Pyongyang’s weapons ambitions, was capable of reaching Alaska, according to outside experts. The Korean Central News Agency quoted leader Kim Jong-Un, who personally oversaw the test, as having inspected the Hwasong-14 missile and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed Tuesday that North Korea has test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time. “The US strongly condemns North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Testing an ICBM represents a new escalation of the threat to the US, our allies and partners, the region, and the world,” Tillerson said in a statement. He added that the US “will never accept a nuclear-armed […]
