BEIJING (AP) — A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a weekly look at the latest […]
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Australia opens way for faster military response to ‘terrorist incidents’
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s military will be more readily deployed to respond to “terrorist incidents” on home soil under proposed changes to laws announced by the government on Monday. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said state and territory police forces would remain as the first response to such incidents, but the military would offer support […]
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Central California wildfire nearly 50 percent contained as hot, dry conditions persist
(Reuters) – A damaging wildfire burning on California’s scenic central coast was expected to continue burning into Monday, after fire fighters made progress on Sunday in containing the blaze which has destroyed 16 homes. [restrict] By Sunday evening the so-called Whittier Fire burning near Santa Barbara was 49 percent contained, an improvement from earlier in […]
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Some residents couldn’t hear alarms in deadly Honolulu blaze
HONOLULU (AP) — As flames raged through a Honolulu high-rise building, killing three people and injuring a dozen others, some residents didn’t even realize a blaze had broken out until they opened their doors or saw firefighters racing to battle the inferno. Several Marco Polo high-rise residents told The Associated Press the sirens are located […]
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Cook Islands censured by the ILO
GENEVA, 12 JULY 2017 (RNZI) — The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has censured the Cook Islands government for not meeting its full obligations to the United Nations agency. The ILO’s Credentials Committee has complained that a Cook Islands delegation to an international labour conference in Geneva didn’t include worker and employer representatives. [restrict] The Cooks […]