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PARIS, France (Reuters) — French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe confirmed on Tuesday (June 20) that the man who deliberately rammed a car carrying weapons and explosives into a police van on Monday (June 19) held an arms permit despite being on a police watchlist. Philippe said in a morning TV interview that the permit had been given to the attacker before an alert was made over the individual. “He had no criminal record that would […]
(Eagle News) — The third earthquake drill will be held in July, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said on Wednesday. The MMDA said the mock exercise will be done from July 14 to July 17, around 4 p.m., to enable “other emergency responders from other regions to come in and participate.” The agency said the drill, called the shake drill, “aims to identify the gaps during the first two drills held in 2015 and 2016.” It […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – A suspected North Korean drone surveillance is a “grave provocation” which violates the Korean War truce, Seoul said Wednesday, demanding a United Nations probe into a drone that crashed near the border. A drone, which had been photographing a controversial US missile defense shield, was discovered early June after it crashed close to a sensitive military installation along the heavily fortified border, Seoul’s military said. “The latest action by the […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi King Salman on Wednesday named his son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, completing a gradual removal of powers from the previous Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, 57, who has been fired. According to a royal decree issued by the official Saudi Press Agency, Mohammed bin Salman, 31, was also named deputy prime minister and maintains his post as minister of defense. Mohammed bin Nayef, a veteran law enforcer well-regarded in the […]
PAILIN, Cambodia (Reuters) — Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge Chief Pol Pot’s right-hand man, often known as “Brother Number Two,” is set to make his closing statement on Friday (June 23) at the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia in the second trial against him for charges of crimes against humanity, genocide, and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. About 1.8 million people were killed during the 1975-1979 rule of Pol Pot’s ultra-communist Khmer Rouge, from torture, execution, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters)– South Korea’s military said on Wednesday (June 21) a drone found earlier this month on a mountain near the Demilitarized Zone border was confirmed to have been from North Korea, and described it as a “grave provocation” that violated the Korean War truce. The drone crashed while returning to the North and was found equipped with a camera and aerial photographs of a United States anti-missile defense system site in a […]
CHINA (Reuters) — The chairperson of the Taiwan-based Kuomintang (KMT) party Hung Hsiu-chu on Sunday called people on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to pursue peace and closer relations when addressing the 9th Straits Forum held in Xiamen, east China’s Fujian Province. “Although the relationship between the two sides now seems gloomy, as long as we kindle the light of peace in our heart and move ahead resolutely and unswervingly, one light will kindle […]
A 2,500-square-meter graffiti fresco, sprayed onto the side of a Rio school, is about to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest created by a woman. The artist in question is 19-year-old Luna Buschinelli from Brazil. Her work was inaugurated on Monday by the city’s mayor. (AFP Video) https://youtu.be/f0qPfWNnHto
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Singer Adele paid a surprise visit on Monday (June 19) to some of the firefighters who tackled the blaze that ravaged a London tower block last week. “She just turned up at the station and knocked on the window and said she had some cakes for us,” said station manager Ben King in a statement. The death toll from the Grenfell Tower fire has risen to 79 people, police said on […]
(AFP) — Republican Karen Handel won a fierce, closely watched special congressional election Tuesday in Georgia, US media projected, salvaging a seat in traditional conservative territory where Democrats had hoped to strike a blow against Donald Trump’s presidency. With about 83 percent of the vote counted, Handel was ahead with 52.6 percent of the vote compared with 47.4 percent for Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, prompting CNN and NBC News to call the race in Handel’s […]
ASAKA CITY, Japan (Reuters) — Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) held on Wednesday (June 21) a drill operating the anti-ballistic missile PAC-3 and other associated military equipment amid increasing tensions with North Korea which has been increasing the number of its missiles test launches in recent months. The showing of the drill, which involved self-defense personnel setting up and operating a PAC-3 launch pad and associated equipment such as a Radar Set and an Antenna Mast […]
by Albee Zhang with John Biers in New York Agence France-Presse SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — China on Wednesday hailed the acceptance of its stocks in a leading United States-based index of emerging market shares as a signal of confidence in the Asian power’s economy after three previous rejections. The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets opened higher after New York’s MSCI agreed to include 222 large capitalization Chinese stocks in its MSCI Emerging Markets Index, representing […]
