At least 22 people were injured after a bomb detonated on a packed London Underground train during the morning rush hour on Friday in what police are treating as a "terrorist incident".Witnesses reported seeing a "wall of fire" and passengers with facial burns and hair coming off at Parsons Green station in west London after the explosion on the train."At 8:20 this morning at Parsons Green station there was an explosion on a Tube train. We now assess that this was a detonation of an improvised e

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday, September 15, that Japan would "never tolerate" what he called North Korea's "dangerous provocative action that threatens world peace" following a missile launch over his country. (Yonhap)"We can never tolerate that North Korea trampled on the international community's strong, united resolve toward peace that has been shown in UN resolutions and went ahead again with this outrageous act," Abe told reporters. (AFP)

YANGON -- Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi will address the crisis engulfing Rakhine state next week, in her first speech since scores were killed in violence that has sent nearly 380,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh and battered her reputation as a defender of the downtrodden.In a press conference government spokesman Zaw Htay said Suu Kyi will "speak for national reconciliation and peace" in a televised address on September 19. In this Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, file photo, Myanmar's St

GENEVA -- The cholera epidemic tearing through Yemen, exacerbating the already dire humanitarian situation in the war-ravaged country, could impact 850,000 people by the end of the year, the Red Cross warned Wednesday.The outbreak "has reached colossal proportions," said Robert Mardini, the International Committee of the Red Cross's Near and Middle East director.The collapse of Yemen's infrastructure after more than two years of war between the Saudi-backed government and Shiite rebels who contr

MANILA -- At least four people died and six were missing after a major storm caused flooding in and around Manila on Tuesday, forcing schools, government offices and businesses to shut down.A 12-year-old girl who drowned in a rain-swollen river in a Manila suburb and a three-month old baby who was crushed by a landslide southeast of the Philippine capital were among the victims, local officials said.Most of the dead and missing were poor people forced to live in identified "danger zones" despite

Peru on Monday ordered North Korea's ambassador to leave the country within five days because of Pyongyang's nuclear tests in defiance of the international community.The foreign ministry's announcement declaring Ambassador Kim Hak-Chol "persona non grata" came as the UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea for its sixth and largest atomic test that took place early this month. (Yonhap)It also followed a decision by Mexico last week to expel the North Korean ambassado

MOSCOW -- Russian police detained people from a crowd of about 200 protesters Sunday in Saint Petersburg who had gathered over the crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.The square in the city centre was surrounded with police vans and policemen were leading people away into the vans, an AFP correspondent at the scene said,  counting over 100 detained at the unauthorised demonstration. "Our brothers are being detained! Why are Muslims always to blame, why are they detaining us?" one protes

Rescuers pulled bodies from the rubble and grieving families carried coffins through the streets Saturday after Mexico‘s biggest earthquake in a century killed 65 people, while elsewhere two died in mudslides unleashed by storm Katia.Officials raised the death toll from Thursday night’s quake as more bodies were found in the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas.In the town of Juchitan, Oaxaca, hundreds of families spent the night camped in the streets, too scared to go back inside for fear of a

Hurricane Irma began pummeling Florida late Saturday, threatening almost the entire southeastern US state after cutting a deadly path of destruction through the Caribbean.Tens of thousands of Floridians were hunkering down in shelters for a direct hit from the monster storm, after more than 6.3 million -- nearly a third of the state's population -- were ordered to evacuate.For those still at home, it was already too late to escape the wrath of what could be the worst hurricane in storm-prone Flo

As Hurricane Irma barrels across the Caribbean toward Florida, Miami Beach residents who refused to join the millions fleeing their state are out walking dogs and surfing in a ghostly city. Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport (AFP-Yonhap)Miami Beach, a beachfront barrier island in front of Miami normally teeming with tourists, young families, and beautiful people hoping to be admired, was deserted on Saturday.Oceanfront restaurants and stores that had rushed with last-minute storm pr

A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Mexico late Thursday, killing at least 5 people and triggering a tsunami alert in what the president called the quake-prone country’s biggest one in a century.Officials evacuated residents along the central and southern Pacific coast as seismologists warned a tsunami of more than three meters could be headed toward land, affecting coastal towns as far south as Ecuador.The quake hit offshore in the Pacific at 11:49 p.m., about 100 kilometers from the coa

UN investigators on Monday accused Burundi's government of crimes against humanity, including executions and torture, and urged the International Criminal Court to open a case "as soon as possible". The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi said it had "reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed and continue to be committed in Burundi," pointing a finger at "the highest level of the state".The three investigators, appointed by the Human Rights Counci

North Korea's escalating nuclear provocations are putting putative ally China in an increasing bind, and may be part of a strategy to twist Beijing's arm into orchestrating direct talks between Pyongyang and Washington, analysts said.The North's Kim dynasty has repeatedly used nuclear brinkmanship over the years in a push to be taken seriously by the United States but traditionally avoided causing major embarrassment to China, its sole major ally and economic lifeline. Chinese President Xi Jinpi

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai and Muslim countries in Asia led a growing chorus of criticism on Monday aimed at Myanmar and its civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the plight of its Rohingya Muslim minority.Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh in the past 10 days following an uptick in fighting between militants and Myanmar's military in strife-torn western Rakhine state.The impoverished region bordering Bangladesh has been a crucible of communal tensions between Muslims

US President Donald Trump declared Sunday that "appeasement with North Korea" will not work, after Pyongyang claimed it had  successfully tested a missile-ready hydrogen bomb."North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test," Trump said. "Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States." This combo of file photos shows an image (left) taken on April 15, 2017 of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on a balcony of the Grand People`s Study House following a militar

One of Cambodia's few remaining independent newspapers announced on Sunday it would close hours after the country's opposition leader was arrested for treason, the latest in a string of blows to critics of strongman premier Hun Sen.The Cambodia Daily, which is often critical of the government, said Monday's edition would be its last after it was slapped with a multi-million dollar tax bill that its publishers said was politically motivated.The announcement came after Kem Sokha, head of the oppos

A third criminal charge against the fugitive heir to Thailand's Red Bull fortune over a fatal hit-and-run expired on Sunday but prosecutors said it would not affect their heavily-criticised attempts to bring him to justice.Worayuth Yoovidhya, better known as "Boss", is wanted for drunkenly ploughing his Ferrari into a policeman riding a motorbike in Bangkok in 2012, dragging the officer to his death.After years giving prosecutors the run around, the 32-year-old billionaire has become an emblem f

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ranks among the world’s youngest heads of state, but has some of its most powerful weapons at his disposal.Sunday’s test of what appeared to be a powerful, full-fledged thermonuclear bomb, marked yet another watershed in Kim’s relentless drive as leader to turn the North into a credible -- and feared -- nuclear-armed state.In the process, he has simply shrugged off international warnings and economic sanctions, as well as bellicose threats from US President Donald

The UN Security Council denounced North Korea's latest missile test Tuesday, unanimously demanding that Pyongyang halt the program after a rocket was fired over Japan into the Pacific.The 15-nation body maintained its unity after Kim Jong-Un's latest provocation, with China and Russia agreeing to sign up to a statement condemning his isolated regime's action.But the US-drafted statement, while noting that the test contravened several previous Security Council resolutions, will not immediately le

STOCKHOLM - Copenhagen police said Tuesday they were scanning an inventor's homemade submarine for possible hidden rooms as they investigate the death of a Swedish journalist last seen on board before her headless torso was found.Peter Madsen, 46, who has been held in formal custody since August 12 and accused of "negligent manslaughter," has insisted that Kim Wall died in "an accident" aboard his submarine and that he later "buried her body at sea."Police said in a statement they were inspectin