Chinese president speaks with Trump and urges calm over North Korea
- Xi Jinping says all sides should avoid rhetoric
- Trump’s ‘locked and loaded’ tweet earns rebuke from Angela Merkel
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has told Donald Trump in a phone call that all sides should avoid rhetoric or action that would worsen tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Chinese state media.
Reports quoted Xi as saying: “At present, the relevant parties must maintain restraint and avoid words and deeds that would exacerbate the tension on the Korean peninsula.”
Trump has pushed China to pressure North Korea to halt a nuclear weapons program that is nearing the capability of targeting the United States. China is the North’s biggest economic partner and source of aid.
Two shot dead in Kenya election riots
Kenyan police have shot two people dead and injured five more during rioting after President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner in national elections.
The violence occurred in the western city of Kisumu on Lake Victoria, where opposition leader Raila Odinga has strong support.
The deaths were confirmed by regional police commander Leonard Katana, AP reports.
Police also opened fire in the capital, Nairobi, where opposition protesters had blocked roads and set up burning barricades.
The unrest follows a fiercely fought presidential election in which Mr Odinga has repeatedly claimed the vote was rigged.
German migrant rescue ship sent to aid anti-migrant vessel in Mediterranean
A German rescue organization has been sent to assist a vessel operated by a group of anti-immigration Identitarians in the Mediterranean Sea. When the NGO arrived, however, the other ship refused assistance.
An organization carrying out migrant search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean went to the aid of a boat on Friday that is run by European right-wing activists.
The C-Star, a ship chartered by an Identitarian group called "Defend Europe," experienced mechanical issues that made it unable to maneuver, said German NGO Sea-Eye in a statement on Facebook.
"Defend Europe" denied that the vessel was in distress on Twitter, writing that the boat suffered "a minor technical problem" and its engine was stopped as a result.
India anger as 30 children died in two days in hospital
Local reports citing unnamed sources say supply of oxygen at Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur was cut off.
At least 30 children have died in 48 hours at a hospital in eastern India with local media reporting the deaths occurred when a company supplying oxygen cut off supply after a payment dispute.
Officials denied a lack of oxygen was to blame for the deaths. District Magistrate Rajiv Rautela said on Saturday the deaths of the children being treated for different ailments were caused by natural causes.
The state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College (BRD) in Gorakhpur ran out of oxygen at 1am local time on Friday, forcing medics to use manual ventilators on patients, the Hindustan Times reported.
IF YOU ASK Steve Bannon how he got the idea that Muslims in the Middle East are a civilizational threat to America, he will say that his eyes were first opened when he served on a Navy destroyer in the Arabian Sea. At least that’s what he told the journalist Joshua Green, whose new book about President Donald Trump’s senior counselor is a best-seller.
“It was not hard to see, as a junior officer, sitting there, that [the threat] was just going to be huge,” Bannon said. He went on:
We’d pull into a place like Karachi, Pakistan – this is 1979, and I’ll never forget it – the British guys came on board, because they still ran the port. The city had 10 million people at the time. We’d get out there, and 8 million of them had to be below the age of fifteen. It was an eye-opener. We’d been other places like the Philippines where there was mass poverty. But it was nothing like the Middle East. It was just a complete eye-opener. It was the other end of the earth.
Abe vows to protect people from N Korean missile threat
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday he will do everything he can to protect the Japanese people as tensions escalate over North Korean plans to send missiles flying over Japan toward Guam.
"I will do everything, to the best of my ability, to protect the safety and property of the Japanese people," he said.
He made comments while visiting his father's tomb in his ancestral hometown of Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
On Saturday, the Defense Ministry deployed four of Japan's surface-to-air Patriot interceptors in western Japan to respond to a possible risk of fragments falling from missiles.
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