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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch authorities have culled some 190,000 chickens after a highly-contagious strain of bird flu broke out at at least two poultry farms, the agriculture ministry said Sunday. Health workers slaughtered around 100,000 hens at a poultry farm at Hekendorp outside Gouda while 90,000 chicks were culled at Witmarsum, in northern Friesland. In both cases “a highly-contagious strain of the H5 variant” was suspected, the ministry said in a statement. There […]
By Lesley Wroughton NEW DELHI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Wednesday (August 31) on China and the Philippines to abide by an international tribunal’s decision on the disputed South China Sea and said there was no military solution to the problem. Kerry’s remarks, made in a visit to India, came ahead of a G20 summit in China on Sunday and Monday that could be overshadowed by arguments over everything from […]
(Reuters) — The Philippines had not sought support from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the international community in its arbitration case against Beijing over the South China Sea Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay said on Wednesday (July 27) in Manila as he met U.S. Foreign Secretary John Kerry. “The case we filed before the arbitral tribunal with respect to our dispute with China, concerns China and the Philippines alone, and resolving this […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday offered China conciliatory talks on a long-awaited international tribunal ruling over Beijing’s maritime claims, a week before the verdict. Duterte, who was sworn into office last week, said he was optimistic that the UN-backed tribunal in The Hague would rule in favour of the Philippines. “If it’s favourable to us, let’s talk,” Duterte said in a speech before the Philippine Air Force at the former […]
by Jo Biddle and Jan Hennop THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — A little-known international tribunal will early next month step into a bitter dispute over the South China Sea, handing down a ruling which risks further inflaming tensions between Southeast Asian nations and China. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) — the world’s oldest international tribunal for the peaceful resolution of disputes between nations — said Wednesday it will rule on July 12 in the […]
PHNOM PENH / AFP- Cambodian Premier Hun Sen lashed out Monday at claims his government had bowed to Chinese pressure to help scupper a joint statement by Southeast Asian nations on the South China Sea. In an angry speech Hun Sen also accused an international court of political bias as it prepares to rule on a sea dispute between the Philippines and China. The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration is widely expected to rule […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China accused the Philippines Wednesday of ignoring requests for dialogue about their maritime dispute, as tensions rise before an international tribunal’s ruling on the territorial row. The Philippines has “unilaterally closed the door of settling the South China Sea issue with China through negotiation”, China’s foreign ministry said in a lengthy statement published by the official Xinhua news agency. The statement came a day after the end of an annual meeting […]
