WORLD NEWS August 27, 2020 5 China Warns U.S. Over Erdogan Warns of ‘Ruin’ as France Joins Greek Drills

‘Provocative Behavior’ STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -- Sweden is beefing up its military presence in the Bal- “Pacific Air Forces personnel will tic Sea amid concerns over increased Rus- continue to fly and operate any- sian and Western activity in the region and where international law allows, at heightened tensions in Belarus following a the time and tempo of our choos- disputed election. Sweden has been rearm- ing,” the U.S. military said in the ing in recent years after running down its statement. military following the end of the Cold War, The U-2 aircraft can fly at over focusing on the Baltic Sea area, where the 70,000 feet and carry out reconnais- strategically important island of Gotland sits within easy reach of the Russian exclave of sance activity from afar and would not Kaliningrad.Sweden’s military gave few de- necessarily have had to enter a no-fly tails of the buildup but said the security situ- zone. ation around its borders had deteriorated. While China did not say exactly Sweden’s armed forces said military activ- where the incident took place, it is ity in the Baltic Sea conducted by Russian currently carrying out drills in the Bo- as well as Western countries was on a scale hai Sea. the likes of which have not been seen since Other exercises are also happening the Cold War. “The focus of the high readi- in the Yellow Sea and South China A woman looks through binoculars as Greek and French vessels sail ness action is to reinforce naval surveillance in the Baltic Sea, at sea and from the air,” Sea. in formation during a joint military exercise in Mediterranean sea, in Jan Thornqvist, the Swedish Armed Forces’ U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is seen during its visit to “China demands the U.S. side im- this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on August 13, 2020. Commander of Joint Operations, said in a Hong Kong, China November 21, 2018. mediately stop this kind of provoca- statement. “The military presence in Gotland tive behavior and take actual steps to ISTANBUL (Dispatches) -- President But the discovery of hydrocarbon re- is also increased.” HONG KONG (Reuters) -- China no-fly zone in the northern military re- safeguard peace and stability in the Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday serves in the eastern Mediterranean has has lodged “stern representations” gion where live fire drills were taking region,” the ministry added. warned Turkey would make “no conces- further strained relations, with Turkey re- *** with the United States, accusing it of place, “seriously interfering in normal Relations between Washington and sions” in the eastern Mediterranean and jecting calls from the EU and Athens to BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Re- sending a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance exercise activities”. Beijing have worsened over every- told Greece to avoid taking steps that immediately stop energy exploration in the uters) – Takfiri militants killed at least 20 plane into a no-fly zone over Chi- This could easily have caused a mis- thing from trade and human rights to could lead to its “ruin”. region. people during attacks on three villages in His remarks came just hours after Ath- Turkey sent the Oruc Reis research vessel eastern Congo, the army and a local admin- nese live-fire military drills on Tues- understanding or misjudgment or an what the United States sees as aggres- istrator said.The Allied Democratic Forces day, further ratcheting up tensions “unexpected incident”, the ministry sive moves by China’s armed forces, ens said it would launch military exercises accompanied by warships to disputed wa- (ADF), a Ugandan armed group operating between Beijing and Washington. added. especially in the disputed South China Wednesday with France, Italy and Cyprus ters on August 10. Its activities were meant in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for China has long denounced U.S. sur- “It was an act of naked provocation, Sea and around Chinese-claimed Tai- in the region, where tensions between the to end on last Sunday but were extended to more than three decades, have killed more veillance activities, while the United and China is resolutely opposed to it, wan. two neighbors have escalated in recent Thursday. than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, States has complained of “unsafe” and have already lodged stern repre- In April 2001, an intercept of a U.S. weeks. Germany has led the charge in Europe according to United Nations figures.The army intercepts by Chinese aircraft. While sentations with the U.S. side.” spy plane by a Chinese fighter jet re- “In the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black to defuse tensions, dispatching its foreign and local authorities discovered the victims such missions happen regularly, for In a statement, the U.S. military sulted in a collision that killed the Sea, Turkey will get what is rightfully minister to Ankara and Athens on Tuesday of the latest massacre on Wednesday in the China to talk about them publicly is said a U-2 flight was conducted in the Chinese pilot and forced the American ours,” Erdogan said in the eastern province to resolve the issue through dialogue. villages of Mapasana, Mayitike and Sayuni, of Mus on the anniversary of the 1071 Bat- Both sides said they were open to dia- around 30km north-west of the city of Beni. unusual. Indo-Pacific region and it was “within plane to make an emergency landing The killings come just three days after a simi- China’s Defense Ministry said the the accepted international rules and at a base on the southern Chinese is- tle of Malazgirt where the Ottoman army logue after talks with the German minister, lar raid that left 13 dead. Late last year the U-2 flew without permission over a regulations governing aircraft flights.” land of Hainan. defeated the Byzantines. and there will be an informal EU foreign Congo army launched a large-scale operation “We don’t have our eye on someone else’s ministers’ meeting in Berlin on Thursday against the ADF, sparking a string of revenge territory, sovereignty and interests, but we and Friday. attacks against civilians that the U.N. says will make no concessions on that which is France’s Defense Minister Florence Parly may constitute war crimes.“The population is Terrorist in NZ Mosque Massacre ours,” he said in the televised speech. said on Twitter Wednesday that three Ra- distraught and on edge,” said Rosette Kabula, “We invite our counterparts to change fale jets, a frigate and a helicopter would deputy administrator for Beni territory. “It is their ways and avoid wrongs that will be take part for France in the exercises which a moment of mourning.”

Waives Right to Speak the path to ruin,” Erdogan added in pointed get underway on Wednesday. ***

is expected to become the first person in remarks to NATO ally Greece. Tensions are already high between MOSCOW (Reuters) -- The Kremlin said New Zealand imprisoned for life without “We want everyone to see Turkey is no France and Turkey over the conflict in on Wednesday Russia did not want the illness prospect of parole. longer a country whose patience, determi- Libya where both Paris and Ankara have of opposition politician Alexei Navalny to Shortly before waiving his right to speak, nation, means and courage will be tested. If accused the other of interference. damage ties with the West and that it was as Tarrant was face-to-face with Abdul Aziz, we say we will do something, we will do it, Meeting Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anas- keen as anyone else to find out what caused him to fall gravely ill.Germany, the United who was hailed a hero when he chased the and we will pay the price,” he said. tasiades in Paris last month, President Em- Greece and Turkey are already divided on manuel Macron denounced what he called States and other countries have called on gunman from the Linwood mosque. Russia to investigate the circumstances that “I saw the fear in his eyes when he was significant issues including migration and Turkey’s “violation” of the sovereignty of Byzantine heritage in Istanbul. Greece and Cyprus. led to Navalny collapsing on a plane last running for his life,” Aziz told the court. week after a German clinic said its initial “You know the face, the one who chased medical examination pointed to poisoning. you out,” he told Tarrant who sat a few But the Kremlin says it is too early to say that meters away, maintaining the same pas- for certain and that the medical examination sive demeanor he had shown throughout Kim Shown Chairing Meeting is inconclusive. the three days of harrowing testimony. *** When Tarrant opened fire through a After West’s Health Rumors SEOUL (Reuters) -- A government health- window at the mosque, the 49-year-old care reform plan in South Korea has sparked Aziz grabbed a credit-card payment ma- opposition from doctors, prompting strikes, chine and ran outside, passing the bodies threats of legal action and public debate even of an elderly couple, until he saw “this as it grapples with one of its biggest outbreaks Brenton Tarrant, the gunman who shot and killed worshippers in the coward, gutless person” and threw the of novel coronavirus infections.Thousands of machine at him. teaching hospital doctors, trainee doctors and Christchurch mosque attacks, is seen during his sentencing at the private-practice physicians began a three- High Court in Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26, 2020. “Then he started shooting at me directly from three or four meters. I ducked in be- day strike on Wednesday despite government orders that they stay at work at key locations CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (Dis- been speculation Tarrant would use his tween the cars,” he said. in the greater Seoul area.At the heart of the patches) – The terrorist in New Zealand sentencing to promote his extremist views, “I went to the back car park and told dispute are government proposals to boost mosque attack Brenton Tarrant waived leading to strict restrictions on media re- him, ‘Come here. You looking for me?’ I the number of medical students over several his right to speak at his sentencing porting the case. didn’t want him to go inside the mosque. years, establish public medical schools, allow hearing in Christchurch on Wednesday, But when judge Cameron Mander At that time I knew I was going to lose government insurance to cover more tradi- in a dramatic twist after the court heard asked if he wanted to speak -- after sitting my life.” tional medicine and introduce more telemedi- more than 90 horrific victim statements. through three days of anguished and angry But Tarrant ran to his car, allowing Aziz cine options.The government says the mea- Tarrant, who sacked his lawyers last testimonies from more than 90 survivors the chance to pick up a discarded rifle and sures are necessary, in part to help prepare month, had admitted 51 charges of mur- and bereaved families in which he was throw it at the vehicle. for future public health crises by boosting the number of doctors in unpopular but important der, 40 of attempted murder and one of frequently called “a loser” and “a coward” “When it smashed his side window I North Korean leader Kim Jong Un addresses a plenary meeting of the fields of medicine, as well as enticing more of terrorism over the attacks at the Al Noor -- Tarrant declined. could see in his eyes he feared for his own Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in North Korea, in this them to rural areas.The Korean Medical As- life... you should thank God on that day and Linwood mosques in Christchurch on A court-appointed lawyer will make a photo released August 20, 2020. sociation (KMA), which has helped organize March 15 last year. brief statement on his behalf before Man- I did not catch you,” Aziz told Tarrant. the strikes, argues that the concentration Defendants in New Zealand have the der delivers his sentence on Thursday. “You will never forget these two eyes you SEOUL (AFP) -- North Korean state border with the South, saying a defector who of physicians in urban areas is due to poor right to address the court and there had The Australian white supremacist, 29, ran from.” media on Wednesday showed leader Kim had returned was suspected of carrying the medical infrastructure and work conditions in Jong Un at a meeting of a top committee is- virus. rural areas, and the plan to train more “pub- suing warnings about the coronavirus and The restrictions were lifted earlier this lic doctors” instead of tackling the systemic Terrorists in Philippines Blast Were Widows of Militants a looming typhoon, following international month and the infection was never con- problems is inexplicable. speculation over his state of health. firmed. *** MANILA (Dispatches) -- Two female terrorists who and civilians. Kim’s comments come amid conjecture The meeting also discussed emergency MUMBAI (AFP) -- The death toll from carried out a double bombing in the southern Philip- Inda Nay was the wife of Talha Jumsah, also known as over his condition after South Korea’s spy measures to prevent crop damage or casual- a collapsed apartment block in India rose pines were the widows of militants who had worked for Abu Talha, who acted as liaison between Abu Sayyaf and the agency said he had delegated some author- ties from Typhoon Bavi, which is forecast to to 16 overnight as rescuers said Wednesday the Daesh-linked Abu Sayyaf group, the army chief said Daesh group. He was killed in November in a shootout with ity to his sister Kim Yo Jong to relieve his hit the country this week. they didn’t expect to find anyone else trapped Wednesday. security forces on Jolo. “governance stress”. There have been days of heavy rain across dead or alive in the rubble. Local officials The pair blew themselves up in a coordinated attack on Jolo Authorities are checking if Nanah was Indonesian. A former aide to late South Korean presi- parts of North Korea, which is vulnerable to had initially feared up to 200 residents of 47 island in Muslim-majority Sulu province on Monday, kill- Sobejana has called for martial law to be imposed in Sulu dent Kim Dae-jung even said on Facebook flooding as many mountains and hills have flats were buried when the block collapsed ing or wounding scores of security forces and civilians in the -- a chain of islands that has long been a stronghold for Abu he thought the North’s leader was in a coma, long been stripped of vegetation, allowing late Monday in Mahad, south of Mumbai. But many were spared, having fled the town country’s deadliest attack this year. Sayyaf -- to “bring back normality” and enable the military to though with no apparent evidence. water to flow downhill unchecked. weeks earlier to wait out the coronavirus The death toll from the blasts has risen to 15 with 74 wound- control the movement of people. But Kim presided over a meeting Tuesday Kim laid out tasks for various departments, pandemic in their home villages.Emergency ed, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said in a state- But Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has rejected the of a top committee of the ruling Workers’ saying thoroughly preventing casualties and workers rescued nine people from the wreck- ment, blaming Abu Sayyaf for the attack. request. “There will be no martial law,” Lorenzana said late Party, the official KCNA news agency report- crop damage was “crucial”, KCNA reported. age, with the loudest cheers reserved for a “The Abu Sayyaf Group will not deter us from nor shake our Tuesday. ed, where he assessed “defects in the state Several analysts have played down sug- four-year-old boy found alive on Tuesday resolve to bring an end to their violence,” AFP Chief of Staff Listed as a terrorist organisation, Abu Sayyaf is a loose net- emergency anti-epidemic work for checking gestions that Kim’s health is deteriorating afternoon.Shell-shocked residents said they Lieutenant General Gilbert Gapay said. “Our troops on the work of takfiri militants blamed for the Philippines’ worst the inroads of the malignant virus”. and Seoul’s intelligence agency has a mixed had previously complained to the builder ground continue to be on high alert to deter similar attacks.” terror attacks as well as kidnappings of foreign tourists and Pictures in the Rodong Sinmun newspaper record with its past pronouncements on de- about the condition of the complex, with po- No group has claimed responsibility. Army chief Lieutenant Christian missionaries. showed Kim addressing the meeting, wear- velopments in the North. lice launching an investigation against him and four other people in connection with General Cirilito Sobejana identified the female bombers as Monday’s explosions happened near a Catholic cathedral on ing a white suit and in one image apparently Earlier this year Kim was absent from pub- the tragedy.Local politician Manik Motiram Inda Nay and Nanah. Jolo where two terrorists blew themselves up in January 2019 smoking a cigarette. lic view for nearly three weeks, missing a Jagtap told TV9 Marathi that the building In a text message to reporters, Sobejana said Nanah was the killing 21 people. That attack was blamed on a group linked Kim addressed “some shortcomings” in key celebration in April for the birthday of was 10 years old and built on “weak” foun- wife of Norman Lasuca, who is considered the Philippines’ to Abu Sayyaf. the preventive efforts and called for stronger his grandfather, the North’s founder -- the dations. “It fell like a house of cards,” he first homegrown bomber. Suicide attacks were once very rare in the Philippines, but measures to eliminate “defects”, KCNA said. most important day in the country’s political said.Building collapses are common during Lasuca and another attacker blew themselves up outside a since July 2018 there have been five, including the latest Last month Pyongyang imposed a lock- calendar -- prompting widespread questions India’s June-September monsoon, with old military camp on Jolo in June 2019, killing several soldiers blasts. down on the city of Kaesong, close to the over his condition. and rickety structures buckling after days of non-stop rain.