YANGON, Jan. 10 (AFP) – Two Reuters journalists were due in a Myanmar court Wednesday where they could be charged under a secrecy law that carries up to 14 years in jail, as calls escalate for their release.
Myanmar nationals Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, were arrested a month ago after...
TEGUCIGALPA, Jan. 10 (AFP) – A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit off Honduras late Tuesday, triggering tsunami threats and advisories for nearby Caribbean shores, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The quake struck at 0251 GMT and its epicenter was located some 27...
TRIPOLI, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — Libya’s UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez Serraj stressed Monday his support for the action plan proposed by the Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, Ghassan Salame. Serraj made his remarks during a meeting with Salame in the capital Tripoli, where the two...
TOKYO, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono said on Tuesday that Japan cannot accept South Korea’s new policy position on a deal struck in 2015 between the two countries over Japan’s wartime conscription of “comfort women.” “The steady...
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — Top nuclear envoys, who represent South Korea and Japan at the six-party talks for the denuclearized Korean Peninsula, met in Seoul Monday to discuss the peninsula’s nuclear issue amid growing signs of a thaw in inter-Korean relations. Lee Do-hoon, South...
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — South Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will discuss issues of mutual concern during the upcoming high-level talks, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Monday. Unification Ministry spokesman Baek Tae-hyun told a press briefing that...
NEW DELHI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — A strong earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit India’s northeastern state of Manipur Sunday, officials said. According to Indian Meteorological Department, the earthquake occurred at 12:17 p.m. (local time).
“The epicenter of earthquake...
NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — Brutal cold hammered the U.S. East Coast after a “bomb cyclone” moved out, with dozens of records cold set over the weekend. At least 22 people in the United States have died in brutal cold weather following a massive winter storm causing the weather...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — People who sleep less than the recommended eight hours a night are more likely to suffer depression or anxiety, a new study suggests. The study, conducted by researchers at Binghamton University of New York State and published in the recent edition of journal...
JAKARTA, Jan 4, 2018 (AFP) – Two Australians were briefly detained by Indonesian police Thursday for climbing to the summit of a rumbling volcano on the holiday island of Bali, hours before authorities shrunk an exclusion zone around the belching crater. Ricky Tonacia, 34, and Jack Dennard...
