Asian Lite News Archive

Category: World News

  • Poll-bound Clinton Raps Obama

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    Former US secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has used her sharpest language yet to describe the “failure” that resulted from the decision to keep the U.S. on the sidelines during the first phase of the Syrian uprising. In an interview to The Atlantic, seen widely as an attempt to distance herself from President Barack…

  • Erdogan leads in Turkey polls

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    Outgoing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has surged into the lead in Turkey’s first direct presidential election, early vote counts suggest, BBC reported. Mr Erdogan is polling at 56% after almost half of the votes have been counted, Turkish broadcasters said. He needs more than 50% of the vote for an outright victory, otherwise he…

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    Selected pictures from the world events

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    Asian Lite provides a selection of pictures from various world events unravelling

  • Pope concerned over Mosul crisis

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    Islamic State onslaught makes Christians flee Thousands of Christian families Thursday fled their homes in northern Iraq after militants of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni insurgent group seized several predominantly Christian areas in Nineveh governorate even as Pope Francis expressed concern over the situation in northern Iraq. The IS rebels took the cities of al-Hamdaniya…

  • US-Africa ties get $30 bn boost

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    Commitments worth over $30 billion were announced at the first US-Africa summit to boost economic ties between the world’s largest economy and the continent, the White House said. President Barack Obama announced $7 billion in new financing to promote US exports to and investments in Africa under the Doing Business in Africa (DBIA) Campaign at…

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    Hiroshima tops the news agenda of today’s pictures. People shout slogans to call for peace at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on August 6, 2014. Hiroshima, the city that suffered U.S. atomic bombing in 1945 during the World War II, commemorated the 69th anniversary of the bombing on Wednesday at the city’s Peace Memorial…

  • PICS: Leader on tour!

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  • UNICEF raps Israel for killing children

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    Nearly 400 children killed in Israel’s offensive on Gaza: Unicef Economic losses at $1.6 billion, while Palestinian Public Works Minister Mufeed al Hasayne said $5 billion would be needed to repair damages to buildings and infrastructures Nearly 400 Palestinian children were killed and 2,500 wounded in the 29-day Israeli offensive on the Gaza strip, and…

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  • UK gears up to mark WW1

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    World leaders are gathering in Belgium for one of a number of ceremonies marking 100 years since Britain joined World War One. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be at the Liege event, as the Prince of Wales and PM attend a Glasgow service. UK buildings from Downing Street to the Blackpool Tower will turn…

  • PICS: Canada Carnival

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    Performers during the King and Queen Competition and Show of the 47th Toronto Caribbean Carnival in Toronto, Canada.  the event gave the spectators an opportunity to experience the colourful Caribbean culture.

  • WHO issues alert on Ebola

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    The Director-General of WHO and presidents of west African nations impacted by the Ebola virus disease outbreak will meet on Friday in Guinea to launch a new joint US$ 100 million response plan as part of an intensified international, regional and national campaign to bring the outbreak under control. “The scale of the Ebola outbreak,…

  • Bibi firm on Gaza destruction

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    No ceasefire without destruction of tunnels: Israeli PM    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday said Israel will continue to destroy underground tunnels in Gaza regardless of any possible cease-fire agreement even as the toll in the coastal enclave touched 1,363. “We are determined to complete this mission with or without a ceasefire,” Netanyahu said…

  • Clowns gather in Guatemala

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     Over 200 professional clowns gathered in Guatemala earlier this week from across the Americas for a meet which allowed them to exchange insights about their trade. Mario Solarzano, the union’s founder, who performs under the name Remachito, said he and his colleagues get together “to learn new tools for our shows”. He said such an…

  • MH17 investigators fail to reach crash site

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      Australian and Dutch investigators have failed for a third consecutive day to reach the MH17 crash site because of fierce fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Tuesday. Abbott, who met with the national security committee in Canberra, said that it was a “confused situation on the ground”,…

  • Israel committing genocide: Khamenei

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      Israel has committed “genocide” in Gaza Strip, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday. “What Israeli authorities are doing in Gaza today is a genocide and a big historical disaster,” Khamenei said when addressing a huge crowd gathered to mark the festival of Eid al-Fitr at the end of Islamic holy month of…

  • Israel denies UN school attack

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    The Israeli army Sunday denied responsibility for the deaths of 16 Palestinians during Thursday’s attack on a UN school in northern Gaza. “The inquiry as well as documented footage conclude that a single errant mortar landed in the courtyard of the (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) UNRWA school in Beit Hanun…

  • Israel resumes attacks

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      The Israeli military said it has resumed its offensive on the Gaza Strip, cutting short a temporary ceasefire after Hamas militants rejected the truce and continued to fire rockets at Israel, an official said Sunday “Following Hamas’ constant rocket firing, the Israel Defence Forces will now resume their aerial, naval and ground activity in…

  • Anti-Israel protest turns violent in Paris

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    At least 40 people were arrested in the French capital Saturday after an anti-Israel protest involving several thousand people turned violent, media reports said. Waving Palestinian flags and chanting slogans to show their support for Palestinian people, demonstrators took to the capital’s streets at 3 p.m., Xinhua reported citing BFMTV news channel. Some 2,000 policemen…

  • US closes embassy in Libya

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    The United States closed its embassy in Libya and evacuated the staffers to neighbouring Tunisia amid security concerns in the restive north African country, the State Department said Saturday. “Due to the ongoing violence resulting from clashes between Libyan militias in the immediate vicinity of the US Embassy in Tripoli, we have temporarily relocated all…

  • Bloodiest day in Gaza

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    US Secretary of State John Kerry and top diplomats from Europe and the Middle East Saturday called for an extension to the temporary truce between Israel and the Hamas, as the toll in the Gaza strip violence rose to over 1,000 with the recovery of 130 bodies of Palestinians Saturday. The toll over the past…

  • Gaza toll crosses 1000

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    The toll in the 19-day Israeli offensive has climbed to 1,030, with the bodies of at least 130 more Palestinians being recovered from rubble across the Gaza Strip, officials said Saturday. Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of the health ministry in Gaza, told reporters that rescue teams, medical crews and paramedics pulled out the corpses from the…

  • No survivor in Algerian plane crash

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    Algeria Friday declared a three-day national morning for the victims of the Air Algerie flight AH 5017 that crashed over Mali the previous day with no survivor yet found from the plane wreckage, media reports said. The aircraft with 116 passengers and crew on board, operated by Spanish charter firm Swiftair on behalf of Air…

  • Wreckage of Algerian plane spotted

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    The Algerian government has received unconfirmed reports from Mali about sightings of wreckage of a jetliner that disappeared in Malian airspace early Thursday with 116 people on board, Algeria’s transport minister said. The wreckage was spotted in the Gao region, where “investigations continue”, Algeria’s Minister of Public Works Amar Ghoul said. Air Algerie Flight AH5017…

  • Ukrainian PM announces resignation

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    Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk announced his resignation Thursday over parliament’s “ineffectiveness” after two political parties withdrew from Ukraine’s ruling coalition. “I am announcing about my resignation due to the collapse of the coalition and blocking of the government initiatives,” Yatsenyuk told parliament. He said the break-up of the ruling coalition meant the parliament was…

  • Algerian plane with 119 on board missing

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    An aircraft belonging to Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, with 119 people on board, disappeared early Thursday, 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou Airport in Burkina Faso, media reported. The plane was reported missing over the Malian region of Gao, some 500 km south of the Algerian border, Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal told reporters on…

  • Gaza toll crosses 700

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    An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians early Thursday in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, taking the toll in the embattled coastal enclave to 707. Health ministry officials told Xinhua that four people from one family were killed when an Israeli warplane hit their home at Beit Lahiya town, north of Gaza, adding…

  • Ten survive Taiwan plane crash

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    Ten people survived the passenger plane crash in Taiwan Wednesday with injuries, but as many as 48 have been confirmed dead, the airliner said in a statement Thursday. TransAsia Airways’ Flight GE 222, with 58 people on board, smashed into residential buildings after a failed emergency landing in the outlying island county of Penghu Wednesday…

  • Hamas links ceasefire with Gaza blockade

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    Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Islamist militant group Hamas, has said there can be no ceasefire to ease the conflict in Gaza without an end to Israel’s blockade. Meshaal said Hamas would continue to reject a lasting ceasefire until its conditions were met. It follows further Israeli air strikes and ground operations in Gaza, as Hamas…

  • MH17 black boxes arrive in Britain

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    The black box recorders from the crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have arrived in Britain for data downloading and analysis, the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said Wednesday. The flight recorders, commonly know as black boxes, from MH17 have been delivered by the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) to the headquarters of AAIB in Farnborough,…

  • UN warns of possible Israeli war crimes

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    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay Wednesday warned that Israeli military attacks on Gaza could constitute a war crime, as the toll in Israel’s ongoing offensive on the Palestinian enclave rose to over 650. Pillay told a special session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that independent reports on the Israeli…

  • Russia ready to join crash probe

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      Russia is ready to join the international investigation led by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) into the crash of the Malaysian Airlines MH17, Moscow said Tuesday. “Russia is closely watching the investigation into the cause of the Malaysian plane accident,” Xinhua quoted Russia’s foreign ministry as saying in a statement. Russia welcomed the…

  • Meat scandal hits more cities

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    A suspect meat scandal in China engulfed Starbucks and Burger King on Tuesday and spread to Japan where McDonald’s said a Chinese supplier accused of selling expired beef and chicken had provided 20% of the meat in its chicken nuggets, The Guardian reported. As Chinese authorities expanded their investigation of the Shanghai-based company Husi Food,…

  • MH17 Black boxes handed over

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      Pro-Russian rebels have reportedly handed over the black boxes of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that crashed in Ukraine last Thursday to Malaysian authorities. The prime minister of the self-proclaimed people’s republic of Donetsk, Alexandr Borodai, presented the two devices to the head of the Malaysian delegation during an official ceremony held at the seat…

  • UN chief arrives in Cairo

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    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo Monday afternoon for talks with Egyptian officials on achieving a ceasefire in the war-stricken Gaza Strip, media reported. Ban is currently on a regional tour that includes Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority for discussions on reaching a ceasefire in the restive enclave, Xinhua…

  • Israel reject to protect Arab Bedouins

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    The Supreme Court of Israel rejected a petition by human rights groups to protect Arab Bedouin villages in southern Israel from Gaza rocket fire. The petition Sunday was submitted following the death of Auda al-Wadj, a 32-year-old Bedouin who was hit by a rocket near city of Dimona Saturday, Xinhua reported. Four of his family…

  • Kerry to travel to Egypt

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    US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Egypt Monday to meet officials on the situation in Gaza, the State Department said Sunday. Kerry is working to support Egypt’s initiative to pursue a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants, Xinhua quoted State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki as saying in a statement. The Gaza Strip…

  • Turkish PM compare Israel to Hitler

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    Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while lambasting Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza, Sunday accused the Israeli government of “barbarism that surpasses Hitler”, a leading British daily reported. “(Israelis) have no conscience, no honour, no pride. Those who condemn Hitler day and night have surpassed Hitler in barbarism,” the Independent quoted Erdogan as saying at…

  • MH17 black boxes not found: Rebel leader

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    A pro-Russian militia leader Saturday claimed that the black boxes of the Malaysian jetliner that crashed in Ukraine have not been found even as Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor agreed on a thorough and impartial investigation into the horrific tragedy. Aleksandr Borodai, the pro-Russian rebel leader in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, denied Saturday…

  • Israel escalates Gaza raids

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    At least 330 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians, have died and 2,400 others have been wounded since Israel launched a major military offensive in the Gaza Strip 12 days ago, medical sources said. The number of people killed has risen sharply since the Israeli army escalated its “Operation Protective Edge,” campaign of massive…

  • PICS: TYPHOON FURY

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    Super typhoon Rammasun hits China and Philippines. Rammasun made its landfall in Zhanjiang on Saturday. This was the second landfall of Typhoon Rammasun in China’s coastal areas within four hours.

  • Heatwave in Paris

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    An unsual heatwave is gripping the European cities.  People cool themselves in a fountain near Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

  • Merkel to revive trust with US

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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday said the lost trust between Germany and the US due to allegations of spying activities could be rebuilt only by talks and agreements. Speaking at a press conference, Merkel said the two countries should use conversation platforms such as US-German cyber dialogues to establish trust, Xinhua reported. She stressed that…

  • Interpol to help identify MH17 victims

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      Interpol said that they would send a team to help identify the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that crashed Thursday in eastern Ukraine. In a press release, Interpol Friday announced that at the request of the Ukrainian authorities, they are ready to send in the team in the next two days, Xinhua reported.…

  • Flight MH17 crash site

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  • Rebels admit to downing MH17

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      According to recordings of intercepted phone calls between Russian military intelligence officers and rebels, pro-Russian separatists admit to have downed the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that crashed Thursday over Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said Friday. According to the SBU, one phone call was made 20 minutes after the plane crash by Igor…

  • Many nationalities killed in MH17 crash

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    At least 154 Dutch citizens have been killed in the Malaysian passenger crash in the eastern part of Ukraine Thursday, the airlines’ European head said. Huib Gorte said that the victims include 154 Dutch passengers, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, 6 Britons, 4 Germans, 4 Belgians, 3 Filipinos one Canadian and 47 of yet…

  • Leaders urged to alleviate inequality

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    World’s most respected charity leaders including Graça Machel, widow of the late South African statesman Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the rock star Bono, the Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus, in a joint letter urged British Prime Minister David  Cameron to act swiftly to alleviate global inequality to stem military conflicts across the world. The joint letter said unless…