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Seoul, South Korea | AFP | by Cat Barton and Kang Jin-kyu North Korea fired two ballistic missiles early Saturday, South Korea’s military said, the nuclear-armed country’s fourth such launch this week, as Seoul, Tokyo and Washington ramp up joint military drills to counter Pyongyang. South Korea, Japan and the US staged anti-submarine drills Friday — the first in five years — just days after Washington and Seoul’s navies conducted large-scale exercises […]
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | AFP | by Robbie Corey-Boulet Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, who was named prime minister late on Tuesday, has shaken up the ultraconservative oil titan with economic, social and religious reforms since his meteoric rise to power. The 37-year-old de facto ruler has overseen the most fundamental transformation in the modern history of the Gulf nation and sidelined all rivals after he became crown prince in June 2017. But he has […]
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP) Two underwater blasts were recorded prior to the discovery of three leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines linking Russia and Europe, a Swedish seismological institute said Tuesday as the unexplained leaks raised suspicions of sabotage. The Swedish National Seismic Network recorded two “massive releases of energy” shortly prior to, and near the location of, the gas leaks off the coast of the Danish island of Bornholm, Peter Schmidt, an Uppsala University seismologist, […]
2:30 AM EDT 9/27 Update: Hurricane #Ian strengthens into a major hurricane. A tropical cyclone update has been issued. More: https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB pic.twitter.com/clUcNw5cBF — National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 27, 2022 Havana, Cuba (AFP) by Leticia PINEDA Hurricane Ian strengthened into a Category 3 storm on Tuesday, the United States National Hurricane Center said, as Cuba and Florida — both in the storm’s likely path — ramped up preparations to deal with high winds and […]
Laurel, United States (AFP) by Issam AHMED NASA’s DART spaceship on Monday struck the asteroid Dimorphos in a historic test of humanity’s ability to prevent a cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. Impact occurred at 7:14 pm Eastern Time (2314 GMT), 10 months after the Double Asteroid Redirection Test probe blasted off from California to carry out its first-of-a-kind experiment. “We’re embarking on a new era, an era in which we potentially have the […]
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) by Cat Barton and Sunghee Hwang North Korea fired a ballistic missile Sunday, Seoul’s military said, just days after a US aircraft carrier arrived for joint drills with the South in a show of force against Pyongyang. With talks long-stalled, nuclear-armed North Korea has doubled down on its banned weapons programmes, even revamping its laws earlier this month to declare itself an “irreversible” nuclear power. The Sunday launch is the latest […]
ATM: Mga deployable response groups (DRGs) ng @coastguardph District NCR-Central Luzon, nakahanda na sa posibleng evacuation o rescue operations sa kasagsagan ng #KardingPH sa Metro Manila at mga kalapit na probinsya! Heavy Rainfall Warning No. 2 NCR_PRSDWeather System: Super Typhoon #KardingPHIssued at: 5:00 PM,25 September 2022 pic.twitter.com/fZ2B44M6yL — PAGASA-DOST (@dost_pagasa) September 25, 2022 Heavy Rainfall Warning No. 1A NCR_PRSD Weather System: Super Typhoon #KardingPH Issued at: 3:39 PM,25 September 2022 pic.twitter.com/r2XlukDl1r — PAGASA-DOST (@dost_pagasa) September […]
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Thousands were without running water and power in central Japan on Sunday after Typhoon Talas dumped record rains on the region, triggering floods and landslides, and leaving at least two dead. The body of a man in Kakegawa city, Shizuoka region, was pulled from what remained of his house on Saturday after a landslide destroyed it, a regional disaster management official told AFP. “Another male (in neighbouring Fukuroi city) was driving to […]
Paris, France (AFP) by Daniel Lawler The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze away from the deep universe towards our home Solar System, capturing an image of a luminous Neptune and its delicate, dusty rings in detail not seen in decades, NASA said Wednesday. The last time astronomers had such a clear view of the farthest planet from the Sun was when NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and only space probe […]
A small reminder about the Taiwan Fire Department! Please pay special attention #Taiwan #Earthquake https://t.co/0189X7nNAn — 高雄日報｜Kaohsiung Times (@KaohsiungTimes) September 17, 2022 🚑🚒大家都安全嗎？ 地震時，第一時間注意⚠️趴下、掩護、穩住，保護頭部頸部！注意掉落物品！！👩🚒👨🚒 👇更多防災資訊，請詳全民防災ｅ點通：https://t.co/onu5GInGDk 👇更多防災知識，請詳消防防災館：https://t.co/BVPfEdK8Pu#台東地震 pic.twitter.com/rUL25TLDEQ — 消防署 (@NFA_TAIWAN) September 17, 2022 #UPDATE The quake hit just after 9:30 pm (1330 GMT) about 50 km (30 miles) north of the coastal city of Taitung at 10 kilometres deep, the USGS said. Local media have initially reported no injuries or damage from the quake. pic.twitter.com/a1zPxnFzsy […]
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Alaska was battening down Friday for what is slated to be the US state’s worst storm in more than a decade, as the remnants of Typhoon Merbok barreled through the Bering Sea, threatening major flooding and hurricane-force winds. Residents on Alaska’s western coast were urged to brace for potentially the “worst coastal flooding in nearly 50 years,” the National Weather Service (NWS) warned in a tweet on Thursday. Merbok, now […]
Paris, France (AFP) by Coline DACLIN Consumers and businesses around the world are facing steeper prices for everything from Mexico’s beloved tortillas to the aluminium cans used by beer companies. Inflation jumped after countries emerged from Covid lockdowns and it has soared since Russia invaded Ukraine, with the IMF expecting consumer prices to rise by 8.3 percent globally this year. Here is a look at how higher prices are affecting the world: – Fuel […]
