Floods and landslides have killed scores of people in China’s central Hunan province as two weeks of torrential rains forced 1.6 million to flee, authorities said Monday. Some 53,000 homes have collapsed while nearly 350,000 others were seriously or partially damaged after 11 straight days of rain, according to Tang Biyu, deputy director of Hunan’s […]
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Japan PM Abe to reshuffle cabinet as support plunges to lowest since 2012
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will reshuffle his cabinet and party leaders early next month, moving to shore up his worst levels of popular support since returning to power in 2012, following a historic loss in a Tokyo assembly election. [restrict] Last week’s loss, delivered by a novice political group, spotlights Abe’s […]
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Myanmar workers in Thailand victims of a broken system
Myawaddy (Myanmar) (AFP) – With only meagre belongings stuffed into backpacks and duffel bags, tens of thousands of Myanmar migrants have streamed home across the Thai border over the past two weeks. But it is not a joyous homecoming for the truckloads of men and women, who fled Thailand in fear of a new law […]
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Tillerson hopes to mend strained US-Turkey ties
ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday acknowledged severe strains in U.S.-Turkey relations, although he said he is hopeful of mending ties with the NATO ally and partner in the anti-Islamic State coalition. He also said he hoped that the U.S. and Turkey could replicate an agreement reached last week between […]
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Man propose while being arrested, girlfriend says yes
An Oklahoma man wanted to propose to his girlfriend on the 4th of July and he wasn’t going to let his arrest stop him. In a moment captured on police body cam footage, Brandon Thompson dropped down on one knee to pop the question, even though he’d been handcuffed by police due to six felony […]
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Marshall Islands-based military expert casts doubt on Earhart photo claims
MAJURO, 10 JULY 2017 (AFP) — A Marshall Islands-based military expert has cast further doubt on claims that a blurry photograph shows famed U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart alive in the territory in 1937. The fate of the legendary American and her navigator, Fred Noonan, during their round-the-world flight is one of aviation’s greatest mysteries, and […]