SEOUL, (APP/AFP) – Seoul said Wednesday an advanced US missile defence system will be deployed in a remote southern county and will have the capacity to protect two thirds of the country against feared attacks from the North. The plan to deploy the powerful system, which fires projectiles to smash into enemy missiles, came last […]
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S. Korea confirms anti-missile system site
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Myanmar’s top monks parry claims of Buddhist hardliners
YANGON, (APP/AFP) – The body representing Myanmar’s top monks has distanced itself from a vocal Buddhist nationalist group, in an unprecedented blow to the anti-Muslim network blamed for a surge in sectarian violence across the country. The Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, which represents the upper echelons of the clergy in the overwhelmingly Buddhist country, issued […]
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A year after bailout, Greece struggles for brighter future
ATHENS, (APP/AFP) – A year after it fought and lost a tug-of-war with its creditors, Greece remains a country that seems adrift, and many of its citizens view the present as joyless and the future as grim. Summer 2015 saw Greece’s youthful left-wing prime minister Alexis Tsipras wage an extraordinary battle between the mighty European […]
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Solar plane lands in Egypt in penultimate stop of world tour
CAIRO, (APP/AFP) – The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Cairo on Wednesday for the penultimate stop in the solar-powered plane’s world tour, two days after setting off from Spain. The experimental plane had completed the first solo transatlantic flight to land in Spain last month, and will continue from Cairo to Abu Dhabi, where it […]
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China claims right to air defence zone, denounces court
BEIJING, (APP/AFP) – Beijing “has the right” to declare an air defence identification zone over the South China Sea, it said Wednesday as it stepped up denunciations of an international tribunal that ruled against its expansive claims in the strategic waters. Whether Beijing set up such a zone — which would require civilian aircraft to […]
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Israel border police kill Palestinian in West Bank: army
JERUSALEM, (APP/AFP) – An Israeli border policeman shot dead one Palestinian and wounded another in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday when they drove towards officers, an army spokeswoman said. The officers had been carrying out a search operation in Al-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem, during which they uncovered an arms workshop, when they spotted the […]