Seoul, Mar 15 (EFE).- North Korea said it fired two medium-range ballistic missiles on Tuesday in a new response to the military drills being carried out by Seoul and Washington this week in the south of the Korean Peninsula. State media KCNA reported Wednesday that the regime said it launched “two ground-to-ground missiles in a … Read more
Los Angeles, Mar 14 (EFE).- President Joe Biden on Tuesday met in Monterey Park, California, with relatives of some of the 11 people who lost their lives in a mass shooting in January and promised new gun control measures. The president, who hours earlier had signed an executive order to try and restrict gun sales, … Read more
New Delhi, Mar 14 (EFE).- India’s top court on Tuesday set aside a government request for additional compensation to the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy that caused thousands of death, with chronic health effects persisting nearly four decades later. The federal government had urged the court to order the American chemical company Union Carbide’s … Read more
Tokyo, Mar 14 (EFE).- Cherry trees began their bloom Tuesday in Tokyo, the earliest date of the year since the Japan Meteorological Agency began recording this data in 1953, along with those of 2020 and 2021, due to high temperatures. The agency observed the first “sakura” petals on the Japanese hybrid variety of cherry trees … Read more
Jerusalem, Mar 13 (EFE).- The Israeli parliament on Tuesday approved in an initial hearing a controversial bill that would allow a simple parliamentary majority to overturn Supreme Court rulings, a key element of a broader judicial overhaul that has sparked the country’s largest protests in decades. The so-called annulment clause was approved by 61 votes … Read more
Seoul, Mar 14 (EFE).- North Korea on Tuesday launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, the South Korean army reported, a day after Seoul and Washington began their spring joint military drills. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected two short-range ballistic missiles launched from Jangyeon in South Hwanghae province at … Read more
Washington/Beijing, Mar 14 (EFE).- China on Tuesday accused the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia of undermining global peace and stability, a day after the trio unveiled a plan to acquire and develop nuclear-powered submarines. The submarine deal is part of the AUKUS trilateral security pact, signed in September 2021 to counter Beijing’s growing … Read more
Washington, Mar 13 (EFE).- President Joe Biden on Monday approved the controversial “Willow Project” to extract oil in Alaska, a decision that has been strongly criticized by ecological groups. The approval comes in a report made public on Monday on the US Department of the Interior’s Web site, which provides details about the project to … Read more
Tehran, Mar 13 (EFE).- Iran announced Monday that it has granted amnesty to 22,000 people who were detained for taking part in protests that swept the country late last year. The civil unrest – the most widespread in Iran since the 1979 revolution – came in response to the death in police custody of Mahsa … Read more
New Delhi, Mar 13 (EFE).- India continues to be the world’s top arms importer even as the imports declined by 11 percent in the last decade, a global arms sales watchdog said on Monday. The decline in the arms imports to India was linked to “a complex procurement process, efforts to diversify arms suppliers and … Read more
By Maria Roldan Tokyo (EFE).- Births in Japan reached a new low in 2022, falling below 800,000 for the first time, accelerating a demographic challenge to which the government wants to respond with economic measures many experts consider insufficient. The archipelago is “at a limit moment” regarding its sustainability, said Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida … Read more
Dhaka, Mar 13 (EFE).- The results of an investigation in Bangladesh, which said that a fire that gutted a Rohingya refugee camp earlier this month was the result of planned sabotage, has triggered concern among activists who have flagged the rising number of attacks against the shelters. “After analyzing the whole thing we thought it … Read more