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BEIJING (AP) – Chinese police report 14 children have been injured in an attack by a knife-wielding assailant at a kindergarten in the western city of Chongqing. The report posted on the police force's microblog said the early Friday morning assault at the Xinshiji Kindergarten was carried out by a 39-year-old woman identified only by her surname, Liu. China has suffered a number of such incidents in recent years, blamed largely on the mentally ill or people bearing grudges.
BEIJING (AP) – Taking a page from the US president's own playbook, China on Thursday denounced a newspaper report that it is listening to Donald Trump's phone calls "fake news," and suggests he exchange his iPhone for a cellphone made by Chinese Huawei manufacturer. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying did not provide any evidence or cite any specifics in her dismissal of the report in The New York Times. China tightly censors domestic media and routinely rejects. Hua told reporters that the reporter behind the report "are sparing no efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Screenplay." "Firstly, The New York Times should be such a report that the New York Times is making fake news," Hua said.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States imposed sanctions on North Korea through the U.S. financial system. The Department of Justice also disclaims criminal charges against the person, Tan Wee Beng, accusing him of "a multi-year scheme to violate and evade U.S. national security controls" against North Korea. Officials said he is also managing director of a marine fuels company involved in illicit economic activity with the North. Pyongyang evade U.N.-mandated sanctions on its nuclear weapons program.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North and South Korea is taking over talks with the United States. South Korean Major Gen. Kim Do-gyun before the meeting at Panmunjom said that it was meant to establish a joint military committee that was meant to maintain communication and avoid crises and accidental clashes. The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the Korean President Jae-in last month in Pyongyang.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – While South Korea has come out swinging, it has come to the fore. The plans have drawn an outcry from civil liberty advocates, who see it as an attack on free expression. They question whether liberal President Moon Jae-in, who was elected last year a popular uprising that a corrupt government, is pivoting to a path taken by his disgraced conservative predecessors who used their powers and a criminal charge of defamation to suppress critics.
BORACAY, Philippines (AP) – Boatloads of tourists sailed to tiny Boracay island Philippine officials reopened the resort to visitors after a six-month closure to clean water the president had called a "cesspool" due to overcrowding, partying neglect. Aklan province has imposed new regulations to regulate the influx of visitors and beach parties, decongesting resorts and preventing them from being discharged into the turquoise waters. Only a portion of Boracay's hotels and other businesses have been reopened under the new rules, and a fraction of the 20,000 workers who have lost their jobs were rehired.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Organizers of an Indonesian movement to moderate a moderate level of violence in the Muslim world, sparking allegations of blasphemy. Yahya Cholil Staquf, General Secretary of Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia 's largest Muslim organization, said Friday the rally in Yogyakarta, was killed to prevent violence. Video of members of Nahdlatul Ulama's youth arm of the group, Hizbut Tahrir, has stirred controversy in Indonesia because the flag is also emblazoned with the Islamic declaration of faith. Said Hizbut Tahrir "operatives" disrupted the youth wing's celebrations and exploited religious symbols, which led to the flag burning incident.
Anti-India protesters in Kashmir take cover behind a tin sheet with clashes with security forces following the killings of two rebels and a civilian. In other images from the Asia-Pacific region, Hindu group is waiting for a religious celebration in India. Rescuers work at the site of a train derailment in northeastern Taiwan that killed 18 people and injured scores others. China has inaugurated the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, the world's longest sea-crossing project with a length of 55 kilometers (34 miles). This gallery was curated by Associated Press photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo. ___ Visit the AP Blog Images: http://apimagesblog.com Visit AP Images online: http://www.apimages.com
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – The Kenyatta National Hospital is one of the biggest donors in the world, a "center of excellence," says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The hospital's website proudly proclaims its motto – "We Listen … We Care" – along with photos of smiling doctors, a vaccination campaign and staffers holding a gold trophy at an awards ceremony. But there are no pictures of Robert Wanyonyi, shot and paralyzed in a robbery more than a year ago. Kenyatta can not pay his bill of nearly 4 million Kenyan shillings ($ 39,570).
YANJI, China (AP) – At the end of a street of newly built high-rises in the northern Chinese city of Yanji stands an exposed cliff face, where paleontologists scrape away 100 million-year-old rock in search of prehistoric bones. Like many fossil excavation sites in China, this one was discovered by accident. China's rapid city building has a motherlode of dinosaur fossils. While bulldozers have unearthed prehistoric sites in many countries, the scale and speed of China's urbanization is unprecedented, according to the United Nations Development Program. Perhaps Xu Xing, a diligent and unassuming standard-bearer for China's new prominence in paleontology.
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