Thai cave rescue mission resumes with eight boys and coach still trapped – live
Speaking at a press briefing, officials suggested that the stronger boys would be rescued first.
Asked which boys are coming out first he says, “The perfect ones, the most ready ones” #thamluangcave @sloumarsh
The first boy will emerge about four to five hours from the press conference, meaning between 7.30pm and 8.30pm local time #ThamLuangCave @sloumarsh
Divers went in to extract more boys from the cave on Monday at 11am (5am BST), official reports have confirmed.
“The factors are as good as yesterday ... The rescue team is the same team with a few replacements,” Narongsak Osatanakorn, the head of the joint command centre coordinating the operation said.
Japan floods latest: More than 100 dead after mudslides and record heavy rains destroy homes
Worst flood disaster hits Asian nation since 1983
More than 100 people have been killed and dozens are missing after record torrential rains unleashed floods and landslides in western Japan.
Rescuers are searching for nearly 80 people who are still accounted for, most of them in the hardest-hit Hiroshima area.
Nearly 13,000 people have been left without electricity, power companies said on Monday, while hundreds of thousands had no water.
It is the worst flood disaster since 1983, when 117 people were killed in heavy rains.
David Davis resigns as UK Brexit Secretary over May's EU plan
Updated 0818 GMT (1618 HKT) July 9, 2018
The man responsible for overseeing the UK's exit from the European Union has resigned, citing irreconcilable differences with Prime Minister Theresa May, a move that threatens to destabilize her government.
In a resignation letter sent to May late Sunday night UK time, Brexit Minister David Davis said it was looking "less and less likely" that the Conservative-led government would be able to deliver on its "manifesto commitment to leave the Customs Union and the Single Market."
Speaking early Monday on BBC Radio 4, Davis said he "proposed one approach, (May) chose another one that is more conciliatory to the EU."
NATO leaders fear Trump crisis at key summit
Today 02:16 pm JST
By Damon Wake
NATO leaders face a major threat to the credibility of their military alliance at their summit this week-- not from traditional foe Russia, but from the head of their most powerful member, U.S. President Donald Trump.
The gathering at NATO headquarters in Brussels, days before Trump meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, is shaping up to be the most difficult in years, analysts and officials told AFP.
Allies are braced for a barrage of invective from Trump for not spending enough on defense, and are apprehensive that his often skeptical tone on the alliance that has underpinned European security for 70 years might turn into outright hostility.
THE WAR IN Syria, now in its eighth year, has been punctuated by a series of grisly massacres — so many that it has become nearly impossible to keep track. But the massacre of August 21, 2013, the day that Bashar al-Assad’s regime unleashed sarin gas on the suburbs of Damascus, is one that will not easily be forgotten. For those following the geopolitics, it is the day that the Syrian dictator crossed President Barack Obama’s infamous “red line.” For the families of the upward of 1,000 people who died a bloodless but painful death, it was a day of darkness and mourning. For Kassem Eid, it was the day he died and was born anew.
In his new book, “My Country: A Syrian Memoir,” Eid, a Palestinian-Syrian activist from the Damascus suburb of Moadamiya, describes waking up that August morning. “My eyes were burning, my head was throbbing, and my throat was rasping for air. I was suffocating,” he writes, painting a scene of an experience that is too often debated in the abstract. “Suddenly my windpipe opened again. The air ripped through my throat and pierced my lungs. Invisible needles stabbed my eyes. A searing pain clawed at my stomach.”
Ivanka Trump's Chinese-Made Products Conveniently Spared From Dad's Tariffs
Mary Papenfuss,HuffPost
Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods won’t touch Ivanka Trump’s foreign-made products for her fashion line.
While Trump rails at Harley-Davidson motorcycles for moving some production to Europe to dodge EU tariffs, the first daughter and senior White House adviser has never manufactured a single product for her Ivanka Trump brand on American soil.
Trump enacted tariffs Friday morning on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, affecting hundreds of products from boats to medical devices and auto parts. Products spared include those manufactured by his daughter.
That means Chengdu Kameido Shoes in Sichuan province can continue to supply shoes for the Ivanka Trump brand as it has in the past. It’s currently bidding for a new contract to manufacture 140,000 pairs of shoes for Trump’s company, a spokesman told The South China Morning Post.
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