Workers try to clear a sea of garbage and debris brought by intense monsoon rains at the Redemptorist Water Channel in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, yesterday.
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Beijing has quietly confirmed the deaths of two Chinese sailors in a collision in the contested South China Sea, according to government statements nearly a year after the incident. In August last year, a China Coast Guard ship collided bow first with a Chinese naval destroyer while chasing a Philippine patrol boat near the disputed Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan Island, 黃岩島), video footage released by Manila showed. A China Coast Guard spokesperson confirmed at the time that there had been a confrontation, but did not mention the collision, nor injuries or deaths. The Chinese People’s Armed Police Force said on social media on Wednesday
South Korean police yesterday raided the Starbucks national headquarters, the chain’s local operator told reporters, following allegations that an advertising campaign defamed activists slain in 1980 pro-democracy protests. Seoul-based Starbucks Korea caused an uproar this year when it launched a “Tank Day” promotion on May 18, touting a new line of capacious tumblers for its coffee beverages. The date marked the anniversary of the 1980 Gwangju pro-democracy uprising, when at least 165 civilians were killed as a military dictatorship rolled tanks out onto the streets. The chain was accused of trivializing the nation’s landmark protest movement and insulting the dead, remembered as martyrs
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he was once more trying to limit the number of people who are born in the country who can become American citizens, in a sign that even after his first attempt at limiting birthright citizenship was rejected by the Supreme Court, he was ready to try again. Trump said he was signing two executive actions on immigration, including one limiting the number of people eligible for American citizenship after being born in the US. The written executive order released later on Thursday was narrower in scope than the previous one shot down by the
EIGHTY-ONE YEARS AGO: The city mayor criticized leaders for justifying nuclear arms as a deterrent, while PM Sanae Takaichi backed ‘a realistic approach’ Hiroshima yesterday marked the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with its mayor criticizing major powers for waging wars and urging them to stop justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a method of deterrence. “Downplaying the inhumanity of nuclear weapons and accepting the use of force to pursue one’s own prosperity risk cycles of violent retaliation that could ultimately result in another Hiroshima or Nagasaki,” Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui said. Too many political leaders still consider nuclear deterrence a realistic approach and legitimize violence, which “simply pushes a world without nuclear weapons further into the
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