Japanese wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki (R) and Ri Su Yong, a vice chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea who formerly served as foreign minister, shake hands in Pyongyang on PYONGYANG – Japanese wrestler-turned-lawmaker Antonio Inoki on Friday held talks with North Korea’s top official in charge of foreign affairs, amid soaring tensions between the country […]
Continue reading …Saint Martin after the storm. AFP. The hurricane killed nine, while seven are still missing in the French Caribbean islands, France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has said. In addition to those killed and missing, 112 were left injured, and 60 percent of homes on the island were damaged so badly that they were uninhabitable. Collomb […]
Continue reading …Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (L) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (R). Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani called Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to initiate talks to resolve a three-month-old diplomatic crisis, Saudi state media said early Saturday. The Qatari emir expressed willingness to discuss the demands of […]
Continue reading …Russian President Vladimir Putin © Sergey Guneev / Sputnik Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on IT companies in Russia to use domestically developed software, saying that soon the use of such foreign products will no longer be possible in certain sectors due to “high security risks.” The IT industry in Russia should aim to […]
Continue reading …Hurricane Irma surges towards the Florida Keys as it approaches the U.S. mainland. (Photo: NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite) Like a giant buzzsaw, Hurricane Irma is forecast to carve a ferocious path up the Florida peninsula, all the way from the Keys to the Georgia border. The National Hurricane Center’s forecast path for Irma has it […]
Continue reading …Iraqi authorities exhume a mass grave in Tikrit. Mosul (IraqiNews.com) More than 2,000 bodies of civilians were recovered since liberation of Mosul city, an Iraqi officer said on Friday. “Rescue teams of Nineveh’s civil defense department have recovered more than 2,100 bodies of civilians from under the destroyed houses in the western side of Mosul, […]
Continue reading …File photo of a cell in a Rome jail. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP The Council of Europe criticized Italy on Friday for overcrowding in the country’s jails. The Council’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) said that many of Italy’s prisons were “still operating above capacity”, and denounced multiple cases of ill treatment. Prisoners […]
Continue reading …Another UN official says more than 1,000 people, mostly Rohingya Muslims, may have been killed. More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar, according to a UN official [Suzauddin Rubel/AFP/Getty Images] The number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh in the last two weeks to escape the violence in Myanmar has shot up to about 270,000, a spokeswoman […]
Continue reading …The most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in a century struck off the country’s southern coast early Friday, killing at least 26 people and prompting warnings it could trigger tsunami waves up to 10 feet high. The quake just before 1 a.m. ET was stronger than the 1985 tremor that killed more than 5,000 people […]
Continue reading …FILE PHOTO Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) © Issei Kato / Reuters For the second time in its history, Japan has carried out a series of anti-missile drills at a US airbase in the northern Tohoku region, as tensions mount with North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons program. A crew of thirty set up a Patriot […]
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