ISLAMABAD, May 12 (Xinhua) — Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday condemned the deadly attack targeted on the country’s Senate’s deputy chairman’s convoy in southwestern province of Balochistan, leaving least 25 dead and 35 others injured, according to a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office. The statement said that Sharif wished a speedy recovery […]

TOKYO, May 12 (Xinhua) — Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition Komeito ally on Friday expressed reticence to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent push to amend the nation’s pacifist constitution to be ratified by 2020. Yoshihisa Inoue, Komeito’s Secretary General, told a press conference on the matter that there are no immediate security-related reasons why […]

PYONGYANG, May 12 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Friday slammed the United States Congress for passing a new law to tighten sanctions against the DPRK. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK has sent an open letter of protest to the U.S. House of Representatives, strongly […]

SEOUL, May 12 (Xinhua) — Residents living near a site, where the previous South Korean government had sought to deploy the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system, hailed the ruling Minjoo Party’s push for the parliamentary hearing and ratification on THAAD. “We welcome the party’s push for a parliamentary hearing. We […]

ISTANBUL, May 9 (Xinhua) — A Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday asked for 40 times aggravated life sentences plus 1,540 to 2,370 years in jail for the attacker on a nightclub in Istanbul on first day of this year, who gunned down 39 people in a shooting spree, local media reported. Abdulkadir Masharipov, a Uzbek national, […]

SEOUL, May 9 (Xinhua) — Conservative and centrist rivals of Moon Jae-in, a candidate of the liberal Minjoo Party, said they would accept the result of South Korean presidential election in an apparent concession to Moon. With 9 percent of votes counted as of 10:30 p.m. local time (1330 GMT), Moon garnered 37.5 percent support. […]

BANGKOK, May 9 (Xinhua) — Blasts at a downtown discount store in southernmost Thailand on Tuesday injured more than 30 people, police said. Two bombs were separately detonated in early afternoon Tuesday at the parking lot of Big C discount store and at a spot inside the store in Pattani province, about 1,050 kilometers south […]

PARIS, May 9 (Xinhua) — Two men carried out a robbery in a daylight at a watch retailor in Paris, making off with luxury watches worth between 800,000 euros and 900,000 euros (981,000 U.S. dollars), a local local newspaper reported on Tuesday. Wearing a grey suit, a face-uncovered man entered the shop at around 11:10 […]

RAMALLAH, May 9 (Xinhua) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Tuesday he is ready to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the U.S. sponsorship for peace making. Abbas made the remarks in a joint news conference with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas told reporters he reiterated […]