Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi received on April 25, 2016 the authorisation from the Municipal Council to sue Alpes-Maritimes Prefect Adolphe Colrat, in an arm wrestling with the French State to avoid the opening of the mosque financed by Saudi Arabia (AFP Photo/Valery Hache) Nice (France) (AFP) – A Saudi-funded mosque […]
Last year the Asia-Pacific region overtook North America for the first time as home of the largest number of super-rich, according to the World Wealth Report from consulting group Capgemini. There are 5.1 million people in the Asia-Pacific region worth more than a million dollars, and they now control more […]
North Korea has conducted back-to-back tests of a mid-range ballistic missile from its eastern coast, South Korean officials say. One test of the powerful Musudan intermediate-range missile made considerable improvements in flight distance and altitude over previous failed launches, but still fell well short of the missile’s projected range. Wednesday’s […]
North Korea has test-fired two mid-range ballistic missiles from its eastern coast, says South Korea. The first launch was considered to have failed, travelling about 150km (90 miles) before landing in the sea. The second, launched hours later, flew about 400km. Military officials in the South said both were intermediate-range […]
The Japanese island of Okinawa sees one of the biggest demonstrations in two decades, involving at least 50,000 people who protest against heavy US military presence after a local woman was murdered by an ex-Marine and a string of other incidents. The rally, which organizers said numbered more than 65,000 […]
Beijing (AFP) – China’s unbranded goods are often better than the branded originals they imitate, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Jack Ma has said, posing an additional challenge to the battle against sales of counterfeits. “The problem is that the fake products today, they make better quality, better price than […]
Japan : Japanese protesters on Sunday demonstrated against the heavy US military presence on the island of Okinawa, as tensions run high after a base employee was arrested following the rape and murder of a local woman. Some 100 people marched through the streets of downtown Tokyo, with many of […]
US naval : A US Navy sailor has been arrested on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on suspicion of drunk driving, Japanese police said. Petty Officer Aimee Mejia, 21, was involved in a three-car accident injuring two people on Saturday. Military personnel are already under curfew after a US military […]
Yamato Tanooka : A boy missing in remote woods in Japan since Saturday after being left alone by his parents as a punishment has been found alive and well. Seven-year-old Yamato Tanooka was found in military barracks near Shikabe in northern Hokkaido, just a few kilometres from where he was […]
A young Pakistani woman died Wednesday after she was tortured and set alight in the country’s conservative northeast for refusing a marriage proposal from the son of a former colleague, relatives and police said. Maria Sadaqat, 19, was attacked by a group of people on Monday in the village of […]
