Blast kills 3 in S. Thailand:
This photo taken on Jan 20, shows a woman producing traditional new year pictures for the upcoming Lunar new year on Feb 15, at a workshop in Weifang in
China’s eastern Shandong province. (AFP)
years, militarizing several small, disputed islands.
Washington hopes to draw a contrast between its own approach and those of China – seen as aggressively modernizing its military capacities – and Russia, which has annexed parts of Georgia and Ukraine. (AFP) ash on communities where tens of thousands have fled after warnings of an impending eruption.
Mayon volcano’s new activity prompted state volcanologists to raise the alert level one notch higher than the initial warning scientists issued last week, meaning a hazardous eruption is possible within days.
Fine ash and sand fell on Legazpi, a city of about 200,000 people, and nearby areas after the midday explosion of Mount Mayon, forcing motorists to turn on their windshield wipers and headlamps, an AFP video stringer said.
Live local television footage and photographs showed the ash column rising several kilometres (miles) above the volcano, blotting out the sun in a largely agricultural region some 330 kilometres (205 miles) southeast of Manila. (AFP) Buddhist monks, police said on Monday.
The Muslim-majority Southeast Asian nation has been on high alert since gunmen linked to Islamic State (IS) launched several attacks in Jakarta, the capital of neighbouring Indonesia, in January 2016.
The two suspects were arrested in two separate raids in December and January, on suspicion of planning to carry out acts of violence and promoting IS ideology.(RTRS)
A motorcycle bomb killed three civilians and wounded two dozen others on Monday at a bustling morning market in Thailand’s insurgency-hit south, the first such attack on a “soft target” in the Muslim-majority region for months.
A rebellion against Thai rule in the country’s culturally distinct “Deep South” bordering Malaysia has left nearly 7,000 dead – the majority civilians – since 2004.
The death toll in 2017 from the insurgency was 235, the lowest in 13 years of conflict as peace talks edged forwards and the Thai junta boosted its security lockdown on the region. (AFP)