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http://ift.tt/2r2hdvc This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 9, 2017 shows a test-fire of a new-type ground-to-sea cruise rocket developed by the Academy of National Defence Science at an undisclosed location in North Korea. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR North Korea’s latest missile launch was a successful test of a new type of “ground-to-sea cruise rocket”, Pyongyang’s state media said Friday. The official KCNA news agency said the rocket was a “powerful attack means capable of striking any enemy group of battleships attempting at military attack on the DPRK (North Korea) from the ground at will”. KCNA added the missiles “accurately detected and hit the floating targets on the East Sea of Korea”. Pyongyang’s fifth test in less than a month was launched in defiance of global pressure to rein in its weapons program. The reclusive state has ordered three ballistic missile launches, a surface-to-air missile, ...

http://ift.tt/2qdeBN4 Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, APC National Publicity Secretary The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended governors and political leaders in the northern part of Nigeria for condemning the ultimatum to Igbos by Arewa youths to leave the region. The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, on Friday in Abuja, described the action of the governors and leaders as “proactive and decisive’’. “We are delighted to see that the pressures mounted by the various leaders have forced the group to reverse its misguided ultimatum and threats. “However, our party remains disturbed by the increasing spate of separatist agitations by individuals and groups in the country. “While we affirm the inalienable rights of citizens and groups to agitate for legitimate causes as a key ingredient of participatory democracy, we believe such agitations should be guided by extant laws,’’ it said. It added that agitators must be peaceful a...

http://ift.tt/2rbFLow Manchester City's Spanish manager Pep Guardiola (C) and Manchester City's Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero (2nd R) react on the pitch after the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Leicester City at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on May 13, 2017. Manchester City won the game 2-1. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony DEVLIN /  Manchester United and Manchester City will face off in a friendly in Houston, Texas in July in the first Manchester derby on foreign soil, the two clubs announced on Tuesday. Jose Mourinho’s United and Pep Guardiola’s City will meet at Houston’s NRG Stadium on July 20 as part of the International Champions Cup friendly tournament. They had been due to play each other in Beijing, China last year, but the game was called off due to concerns about the pitch. “The Manchester derby is one of the world’s most iconic games,” said City chief executive Ferran Soriano in a press release. “We ar...

http://ift.tt/2qFz3Yi Thai Police A gunfight between Thai security forces and a band of Golden Triangle drug smugglers left nine traffickers dead, a senior official said Sunday, the latest clash sparked by the booming regional trade in narcotics. Narongsak Osotthanakorn, governor of northern Chiang Rai province, said the firefight broke out on Saturday evening two kilometres inside Thailand from the border with Myanmar. “Authorities told them to halt but they refused and started shooting. The two sides exchanged fire for about 10 minutes leaving nine smugglers killed and the rest fled,” he told AFP, adding the smuggling group was originally 15 people strong. Some 700,000 methamphetamine tablets were found alongside semi-automatic rifles, he added. The Golden Triangle, a region in the borderlands of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and southern China, is the world’s second largest drug-producing region after Latin America. Huge quantities of opium, heroin and methamphetamine pills ...