News archive of July 2018

TOKYO (AP) — More than 300 people died in July from weather-related disasters in one of Japan's deadliest months in recent years.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A roadside bomb struck a passenger bus in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, including women and children, officials said.

The morning attack in the Bala Buluk district in western Farah province also wounded 31 people, all civilians, according to Abdul Jabar Shahiq, the provincial health department chief.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino soldier, five militiamen and four villagers were killed by a powerful bomb that exploded in a van the troops were inspecting Tuesday amid threats of bombings in a southern province, military officials said.

LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) — Twin wildfires tearing through vineyards and brushy hills threatened some 10,000 homes in Northern California Tuesday — yet another front in the seemingly endless summer of wildfires that have ravaged some of the most scenic areas of the state.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country's first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, in the midst of talks to compel Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arms.

(Reuters) - Four people, including a young boy, were shot and killed on Monday in a New York City apartment, police said.

The 'Concordia' Employers Confederation expresses concern over Romania's macroeconomic balances having progressively deteriorated lately, as the 6-month budget deficit of 1.61 pct of GDP - 2.4 times higher compared to the same period of the year before - raises a red flag as to the imminent danger of overshooting the year-end target of 3 percent.

This body was set up to determine the consequences of NATO's bombing of Serbia for 78 days in 1999.

This report, quoted by the daily Vecernje Novosti, abounds in details related to the actions of NATO's aviation.

The Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) recorded in the first half of 2018 a net profit of 697 million lei (149.7 million euro) and an operating result of 740.9 million lei (159.2 million euros), BCR representatives inform on Tuesday in a press release issued for AGERPRES.

Thirteen people were hospitalized in Rhodes on Tuesday morning with gunshot wounds following an incident outside a Roma camp on the island, the state-run Athens-Macedonian news agency reported.

Based on initial information, three Roma in a car stopped shortly after noon outside the camp at Karakonero and opened fire.

It is not known what the motives of the assailants were.