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Fifty years ago this July, as the waters of the South Pacific rushed toward the shores of Teahupo’o in a perfect, powerful curl, as they have always done, another wave visited the tiny hamlet. This time it was an invisible and airborne one: a surge of radiation escaping from a nuclear weapon test conducted by France in this far-flung reach of their republic.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Tuesday disavowed many Afghan diplomatic missions overseas, saying it will not honor passports, visas and other documents issued by diplomats associated with Afghanistan’s former Western-backed administration.
Telecoms infrastructure was damaged in France, within days of attacks against the country's rail network that disrupted travel for 800,000 people through the weekend, just as the Olympic Games opening ceremony kicked off in Paris.
Amy Chew is an independent journalist and former investment bank analyst who covers Asian and global affairs. A former Reuters Jakarta and Channel News Asia senior correspondent, her work appears in regional publications including Nikkei Asia and Al Jazeera.
Was it the Parisians who bluntly told travelers "do not come" to Paris during the Summer Games?
CLARK, Philippines (AP) — France renewed a commitment to help defend freedom of navigation and overflight in the Asia-Pacific Sunday and said that its supersonic fighter jets — a pair of which landed for the first time in the Philippines — and advance military power would enable it to respond rapidly to any humanitarian or security crisis in the region.
Orchestral music as a plea for peace is not a new idea. The 95-year-old Pablo Casals played his “Song of the Birds” before the United Nations in 1971, and Daniel Barenboim continues to conduct the West-East Divan Orchestra, scheduled for the BBC Proms in London on August 11.
