MEXICO CITY, January 18 -- At least 60 people have been killed and 71 more injured after a pipeline exploded in central Mexico. The pipeline was ruptured by suspected fuel thieves in the town of Tlahuelilpan in Hidalgo state, around 62 miles north of Mexico City, according to state and federal authorities. Dozens of people had been trying to fill up buckets, plastic jugs and garbage cans with spilling petrol when the fire broke out on Friday evening, officials said. Mexican television footage showed large flames and screaming people running away from the blaze. Images showed people at the scene with severe burns as the government sent in ambulances and doctors to treat the victims. It came just weeks after new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched a major crackdown on fuel theft, which the government has said cost the country more than $3bn (£2.3bn) last year. Hidalgo state police said the leak was first reported at about 5pm local time."There was a report that residents were on the scene trying to obtain fuel," according to a police report. Two hours later, the pipeline burst into flames. It came just weeks after new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched a major crackdown on fuel theft, which the government has said cost the country more than $3bn (£2.3bn) last year. Hidalgo state police said the leak was first reported at about 5pm local time. "There was a report that residents were on the scene trying to obtain fuel," according to a police report. Two hours later, the pipeline burst into flames. The ruptured pipeline was near the Tula refinery of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned company, which in a statement blamed the incident on illegal tapping. And another pipeline burst into flames in the neighbouring state of Queretaro on Friday, because of an illegal tap. However, Pemex said the fire near San Juan del Rio posed “no risk to human beings." The explosion in Tlahuelilpan was one of the worst in recent history in a country that has suffered hundreds of illegal ruptures to its network of oil and gas pipelines. Omar Fayad, Hidalgo's governor, warned that the number of victims could still rise depending on what emergency services discovered where the blaze had been hottest. On Twitter, Mr Fayad said: "I urge the entire population not to be complicit in fuel theft. Apart from being illegal, it puts your life and those of your families at risk." Mr Lopez Obrador tweeted: "I greatly lament the grave situation Tlahuelilpan is suffering because of the explosion of the duct.” He called on all branches of government to assist the victims.
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BOGOTA, January 18 -- Colombia' s government declared three days of mourning Thursday after at least 21 people died in a car bomb at a Bogota police cadet training academy, and 68 were wounded -- the worst such incident in the city in 16 years. The defense ministry said the "terrorist act" was carried out using a vehicle packed with 80 kilograms (around 175 pounds) of explosives. "Unfortunately, the preliminary toll is 21 people dead, including the person responsible for the incident, and 68 wounded," Colombian police said in a statement, adding 58 of those injured had been discharged from hospital. The defense ministry had previously reported 11 dead and 65 injured. "All Colombians reject terrorism and we're united in fighting it," President Ivan Duque tweeted in the aftermath. Later in a statement to the nation, he said he had ordered reinforcements to Colombia's borders and routes in and out of cities. "I have also requested that priority be given to all the investigations ... to identify the masterminds of this terrorist attack and their accomplices," he said. The bomber -- who authorities confirmed was killed in the attack -- struck at the General Francisco de Paula Santander Officer's School in the south of Bogota during a promotion ceremony for cadets. No group has claimed responsibility, but public prosecutor Nestor Humberto Martinez named suspect Jose Aldemar Rojas Rodriguez as the "material author of this abominable crime." Martinez said Rojas Rodriguez entered the school compound at 9:30 am (1430 GMT) driving a grey 1993 Nissan Patrol truck, but gave no details about the explosion. He said the truck underwent an inspection in July in the Arauco department on the border with Venezuela -- a traditional stronghold of ELN Marxist guerrillas. BOGOTA, January 17 -- A car bomb exploded at a police academy in Colombia’s capital Bogota on Thursday, killing at least eight people and wounding about 10, authorities said. The bomb went off in the General Santander Police School in the south of the capital, Mayor Enrique Penalosa told reporters. The Defense Ministry put the death toll at eight. Authorities did not immediately say if the dead and wounded were police or civilians. Colombian President Ivan Duque said he was returning to the capital from the west of the country, where he had been attending a meeting on security, and had ordered security forces to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice. “All Colombians reject terrorism and are united to confront it,” he said on Twitter. There was no word on who might be behind the explosion. Colombia grappled for decades with a civil war but the worst of the violence ended with a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016. Images on social media showed the remains of a vehicle in flames in the parking area of the police school, and emergency responders at the scene. "Today’s stage was extremely difficult, with some massive dunes and tricky navigation," said Al Attiyah after arriving at the bivouac in San Juan de Marcona. "We led for most of the stage, but then made a small mistake near the end, which allowed Sebastien (Loeb) to take the stage win." Al Attiyah reported a clean run in terms of the Toyota Hilux, which powered through the tricky terrain without missing a beat. His standing after the long stage puts him 37:43 clear of Loeb, who has moved into the second position after MINI’s Stephane Peterhansel lost 18 minutes on the stage, relegating the MINI driver to third on the table.
LIMA, Januari 12 -- Sebastien Loeb won the fifth stage of the Dakar Rally in Peru on Friday while Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah extended his overall lead.
Frenchman Loeb, a nine times world rally champion, beat Al-Attiyah by more than 10 minutes after the 519-km timed stage from Tacna to the city of Arequipa. It was Loeb’s second stage victory of this year’s edition, after he was also fastest on the second day, and moved him up to fifth overall but 40 minutes off the lead. Twice Dakar winner Al-Attiyah, in a Toyota, increased his lead over second-placed Frenchman Stephane Peterhansel, driving an X-raid Mini, to 24 minutes and 42 seconds with Spaniard Nani Roma third. SAN JUAN DE MARCONA, January 8 -- France's Sebastien Loeb won the second stage of the Dakar Rally on Tuesday by holding off a challenge from Spain's Nani Roma on Peru's coastal desert dunes. The nine-time world rally champion finished the 342km timed stage from Pisco to San Juan de Marcona in three hours, 26 minutes and 53 seconds in his private Peugeot, just eight seconds ahead of Roma's Mini. Dutchman Bernhard Ten Brinke was third in his Toyota, a minute and 20 seconds further back. "Today it all came right and we feel really good about it," said Loeb, who is now fifth in the overall standings, just under two minutes behind leader Giniel de Villiers of South Africa. "It was a tricky stage, you need to know when to attack and when to play it straight. We didn't make up that much time in the end. "But we got the right strategy. We raced a great special and made no mistakes. I needed to get into the swing because I have done almost no test drives here and less than 100km since the last edition." It was a forgettable day for reigning champion Carlos Sainz, who crossed the finish line in eighth place, almost five minutes behind Loeb. Thirteen-time Dakar winner Stephane Peterhansel fared even worse as he took 17th spot, more than 15 minutes off the pace. Austria's Matthias Walkner won the bike stage as he bids to defend his title on a KTM. American Ricky Brabec was second and his Honda teammate Joan Barreda third. Spain's Barreda leads the overall two-wheel standings, a minute and 31 seconds clear of Walkner. LIMA, January 7 -- In the midst of preparations for the Dakar Rally, adult superstar Stormy Daniels has hit the high road to Peru to christen the Penthouse World Media LLC and Penthouse Clubs Worldwide LLC sponsored car, marking the iconic adult media brand’s arrival in the world of motor sports. With champion racer Olga Rouckova at the wheel, and Stormy at her side before the race, Penthouse lauds these strong, beautiful women who lead the change. “I have a wonderful and long-standing relationship with Penthouse and I love to travel, so needless to say, I jumped at the chance to head to Peru to help promote the Penthouse car at the Dakar Rally Race,” Daniels said. “The trip was even better than I hoped it would be. I had so much fun meeting the race team, posing with the car and interviewing our badass driver Olga.” The world-renowned off-road endurance rally, which is held from January 6 to 17 in Peru, is a 10-stage race that will feature a variety of off-road vehicles in four classes and covers 3,100 miles of sandy dunes, rocky terrain and intense desert heat from start to finish. Rouckova is one of 17 female competitors in the race comprised of 334 racers in total. Although a traditionally male-oriented event, the 2019 Dakar Rally hit a huge milestone with the most female drivers to date, empowering women around the world to showcase their competitive skills. “We were excited to have Stormy, a female pioneer of challenging endeavors, on location to support Olga. It is a great opportunity to focus on the achievement and great potential of all women who challenge the status quo,” said Catherine Brandt, COO of Penthouse World Media LLC. “The Dakar Rally is a grueling and difficult race and we’re honored to support Olga who is the epitome of courage, beauty, determination and talent. She is a great ambassador for Penthouse and its free-thinking, unstoppable spirit.” LIMA, January 7 -- The world's most grueling rally event is underway again, as more than 330 cars, trucks, bikes and quads set off for at least 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of high speed machine torture in the 41st Dakar Rally. This year's course takes competitors on a lap of southern Peru, starting and finishing in Lima. It's going to be a sandy one; the Peruvian desert around the Ica region is as tough as the Sahara itself, and dune specialists will find themselves right in their element. There will be little this year in the way of mountains, mud and dirt tracks – indeed, some are concerned the lack of diverse driving environments might lessen the spectacle. But lots of sand often means lots of crashes, so competitors will need to stay on point at all times, and no lead will be safe. On the other hand, crashing out early won't be quite the abrupt end to proceedings it has been in prior years. This year, for the first time, if you drop out of the race in the first half of the route, you'll have a chance to jump back in and race the second half of the program – albeit under a different classification. It won't be the same as gritting the whole thing out, but many teams will find it a better option than heading home, tail between legs. In the car division, the 2WD turbo diesel Peugeots that have won the last three years won't be competing this year, having quit because Peugeot felt it was being unduly penalized for its success by Dakar rule changes. So all eyes are on Toyota's Nasser Al-Attiyah and Matthieu Baumel, who have proven themselves in the dunes and taken runner-up spots in 2016 and 2018. They're experienced campaigners, former champions with Mini, and this race feels like theirs to lose. For the big truck category – and if you've never watched Dakar before, you owe it to yourself to see these giant things crashing through the sand dunes – survival was the name of the game in 2018. Russia's Kamaz teams have endured and won the last two years, and the team has a new Kamaz-43509 truck for 2019, with manual and auto variants distributed between its four teams and three-time champion Eduard Nikolaev looking to expand his impressive resume. But Federico Villagra (who was challenging for the lead when his Iveco came to a complete stop on the second-last special stage last year) is back looking for revenge, and two-time champion Gerard De Rooy is back as well, so the Ivecos could well have their year in 2019.
As for motorcycles, there's been a marked uptick in rally-style, mid-displacement adventure machines in the last year or two, notably from Honda, Yamaha and KTM, all of which will be keen to sell on Monday with a bit of Sunday success in Peru. But for the last 17 years, the Dakar has been owned lock, stock and barrel by KTM. The past three winners are lining up again on orange bikes: Toby Price, Sam Sunderland and Matthias Walkner. But HRC has been snapping at KTM's heels the last couple of years, Price is lining up just weeks after breaking his scaphoid, and taking this event out of Austria's grasp would mean everything to the Japanese. LIMA, January 6 -- Thierry Sabine was lost and alone. It was 1977 and the Frenchman had gone off course during a motorcycle rally through the Ténéré Desert. All alone, and somewhere in the middle of Chad and Niger, the natural beauty that surrounded him sparked an idea in Sabine’s mind. A year later, Sabine was no longer lost and no longer alone. He was with 182 vehicles in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower at the start of the inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally, with the finishing line some 10,000km away, in Senegal. The race has grown and somewhat since then. Firstly, it is now simply called the Dakar Rally and attracts nearly 500 participants from across the globe. This year’s race sees a record of 17 women entering and the favourite in the car category is reigning champion Carlos Sainz Snr, the two-time World Rally Champion and father of Formula One driver Carlos Sainz Jr, who is at McLaren. Secondly, it no longer actually finishes in Dakar. An attack in Mauritania on Christmas Eve of 2007 saw a family of four French tourists killed and the fears of a terrorist-related incident saw the 2008 Rally canceled with eight of the 15 stages due to be held there. Osama bin Laden’s son, Omar, promoted himself as an “ambassador of peace” and proposed a 4,800km horse race to replace it, saying: “I heard the rally was stopped because of Al-Qaeda. I don’t think they are going to stop me.” After a year’s sabbatical, South America became the new home of the Dakar Rally. With Peru, Bolivia and Argentina acting as hosts. The race’s official website claims competitors “take on the challenges of the wildness and the forces of nature” and “to use the last drop of their mental strength”. However, the Vatican newspaper claims it is “the bloody race of irresponsibility”.
The Dakar has seen more than 70 deaths during its 41-year history, from young children being hit by support trucks when crossing the road to competitors going missing and their bodies being found days later. In total, 28 competitors have died during the race. Sabine himself, the rally’s organiser, died in tragic circumstances when his helicopter crashed into a dune during a Malian sandstorm in 1986 along with four others. He would never see his wacky dream that he thought up while lost in the desert in 1977 boon to generate around $A391m, draw in more than 4.5m spectators and around 1bn more viewers watching in 190 countries around the world. Sabine once described the race as “a challenge for those who go, but a dream for those who stay behind” and despite all its controversies, you would have to say he was right. LIMA, January 5 -- Spain's Carlos Sainz heads a formidable Mini trio as he bids to defend his Dakar Rally title when the gruelling 10-stage race, being hosted for the first time by a single country, gets under way on Sunday. Sainz will drive for the X-raid Mini John Cooper Works Buggy Team which also features Frenchmen Stephane Peter hansel and Cyril Despres, legends on the world's toughest rally race. The trio have a remarkable 20 Dakar victories between them, Peterhansel having won six times on the motorbike and seven times in a car, while Despres is a five-time motorbike winner and Sainz also claimed victory in 2010. "Honestly, I haven't changed the way I prepare after winning last year," said the 56-year-old Sainz, also twice a World Rally champion (1990, 1992). "Once you have won, all you want to do is come back and win again. You're still aware of what kind of race it'll be and you try and adapt to the car and its characteristics. "The Dakar challenges you in every way both physically and mentally. It taxes all your strength and that of your team, so victory brings maximum satisfaction." Mini look set to be best tested by Toyota, with Qatari Nasser al-Attiyah, a double Dakar winner (2011, 2015), no doubt looking forward to the sand-heavy rally. Attiyah finished second last year and will be bolstered by teammate Giniel De Villiers, the South African who claimed the Dakar title in 2009 and has had seven other podium finishes including third in 2018. Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb also returns for the fourth time, hoping to become the first privateer to win the Dakar Rally since Jean-Louis Schlesser back in 2000. 'Several teams have a shot' Loeb, who will be driving a Peugeot 3008 prepared and fielded by the PH-Sport private team, has previously made his mark with a total of 10 stage victories and a second place finish in 2017. "Several teams will have a shot at winning and I hope we are one of them," said Loeb. "I like the dunes. I haven't forgotten everything I've learned these past three years and I'm still hungry for success!" Since the race switched from its original route from Paris to the Senegalese capital Dakar for security reasons in 2009, it has enjoyed multiple hosts in South America. But this year Argentina, Chile and Bolivia all pulled out for economic reasons, leaving Peru as the sole host of the 41st edition. Race director Etienne Lavigne insisted it would not be a "cut price" race despite the reduction of the rally from 9,000 kilometres over 14 stages in 2018 -- when it went through Peru, Argentina and Bolivia -- to 5,000 kilometres across 10 stages in 2019. The shortened course has certainly not put off the competition with all the big names of the recent past among the 334 vehicles including 167 motorbike and quads, 96 cars, 30 SxS (buggies) and 41 trucks registered for the race which ends in Lima on January 17. Reigning motorbike champion Matthias Walkner of Austria heads a formidable trio of riders for the Red Bull KTM Factory Team including fellow Dakar winners Toby Price of Australia and Briton Sam Sunderland. "The goal is to reach my full potential on the 2019 Dakar. The mission is clear: defend my title," said Walkner. ROSEAU, January 2 -- The Dominica Government says it intends to start construction of a geothermal energy power plant by the third quarter of 2019.
Energy Minister Ian Douglas said that the plant to be constructed in the Roseau Valley, on the outskirts of the capital, will be a major boost for the island that is attempting to become the world's first climate resilient country. “The Government has seen tremendous progress being made in the geothermal development programme. This is one of the pillars on which we intend to achieve the goal of being the first climate resilient country in the world,” Douglas said on the state-owned DBS radio Wednesday. “We thank all our international partners who have helped us in this quest to date. We are now in the position to begin the construction of the power plant by the third quarter of 2019,” he said. Douglas told radio listeners that with the commissioning of the plant “we will be in a position to benefit clean reliable, low cost renewable and high quality energy supply in the future which will benefit all sectors of productive activity in Dominica”. In September, Douglas told legislators that local consumers could, hopefully, begin benefiting from geothermal energy to power their homes, “in a short time”. He said that the geothermal programme is proceeding “on track”, and that a local company has already been established to ensure the continued success of the project. Earlier this year, the World Bank announced that it would be providing more than US$17 million towards the development of a geothermal plant for Dominica. CUCUTA, December 27 -- The Colombian border city of Cucuta is virtual chaos - as "Rail-thin women cradle their tiny babies, and beg along the trash-strewn gutters. Teens hawk everything from cigarettes to sweets and water for small change." The young, the old and the disabled cluster around the lone Western Union office – recently established to deal with the Venezuelan influx – in the hopes of receiving or sending a few dollars to send home. Without passports or work permits, the Venezuelans – many with university degrees or decent jobs in what was once the wealthiest nation in Latin America – are now resorting to whatever it takes to survive. Men buying hair approach groups of women with their young children, offering them enough to feed their families for a short while. Local wigmakers in Colombia will pay between $10 - $30, depending on length and quality. Other Venezuelan women - including girls as young as 14, resort to sex work on the streets of Cucuta - earning around seven dollars per john. Both men and women are exposed to sex trafficking along the route from Venezuela to Colombia. According to several walkers, some women “chose” prostitution as a means to make money and earn rides along the way. And some heterosexual men “sell themselves on the gay market” for a little money. Other women are manipulated or forced into giving “pimp types” their documents and identification cards, and are subsequently drawn into prostitution rings. That's particularly the case in border areas, where many rebel and drug-trafficking groups operate. Back home in Venezuela, the situation is dire - as the socialist country suffers from starvation, disease, a lack of health care and extreme violence. Children have been dying from hepatitis and malaria. "There is a human catastrophe in Venezuela. There is a resurgence of illnesses that were eradicated decades ago. Hundreds have died from measles and diphtheria. Last year, more than 400,000 Venezuelans presented malaria symptoms. Up to now, there are over 10,000 sick people from tuberculosis," said Caracas mayor and former political prisoner Antonio Ledezma, adding: "People have been doomed to death. More than 55,000 cancer patients don’t have access to chemotherapy. Every three hours a woman dies due to breast cancer." Caterine Martinez, an attorney, and director of the Prepara Familias (Ready Families) organization in Venezuela – which endeavors to support hospitalized children and their families and caregivers – concurred that the public health care issue in the country is nothing short of “severe.” “Currently there are no broad-spectrum antibiotics, not even basic antibiotics to treat basic pathogens from children and present chronic illnesses,” she said. “We don’t have x-rays working, they haven’t for a long time. We don’t have a CAT scanner or an MRI scanner. Many other vital medical instruments don’t work. The municipal blood banks don’t have reagents, therefore we have kids who are getting blood transfusions and are getting infected with hepatitis C and could even be injected with HIV.” BEIJING, Nov. 2 -- President Xi Jinping held talks with the Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina in Beijing Friday, pledging to promote common development.
China and the Dominican Republic established diplomatic ties half a year ago. Xi said the decision of President Medina to establish ties with China conformed to the trend of the times and the historical inevitability, which allowed the Dominican Republic to have more than 1.3 billion Chinese friends. "Although China and the Dominican Republic have only recently established diplomatic relations, our hearts have long been linked together," Xi said. "The establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries has given China a good partner with mutual respect, equal treatment and mutually-beneficial cooperation." He expressed China's willingness to work with the Dominican Republic to promote accelerated development of bilateral relations, turn the good vision of cooperation between the two countries into more tangible results, promote common development and bring benefits to the people. "History and facts will prove that the decision to establish diplomatic relations between China and the Dominican Republic is completely correct," said the president. The relations between China and the Dominican Republic have released a wellspring of vitality and shows the unlimited broad prospects since the two countries forged diplomatic ties half a year ago, said Xi.He encouraged both sides to enhance the top-down design and political guidance, calling on the Dominican Republic to adhere to the one-China policy so as to lay a solid foundation for the lasting and stable development of bilateral ties. He suggested that both sides strengthen overall planning and coordination to advance bilateral cooperation in various areas through partnership in the Belt and Road Initiative, and conduct cooperation in areas including infrastructure construction, finance, investment, tourism and aviation in the principle of a government-guided, business-led and market-driven approach for win-win progress. Xi expressed his welcome to Medina's participation in the opening ceremony of the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) scheduled for Nov. 5 to 10 in Shanghai, and called on the Dominican Republic to make the best use of the platform to promote its products. The president also encouraged both sides to intensify cultural and people-to-people exchanges and mutual understanding and to promote exchanges at high and local levels and from governments to legislature bodies so as to gain extensive public support for China-Dominican Republic cooperation. China stands ready to carry out cooperation with the Caribbean country in areas such as human resources training and sports, and will send medical teams there, Xi said. He also called for coordination on international affairs and joint efforts to safeguard international peace and security as well as the common interests of developing countries. Noting that China and Latin American countries, including Caribbean countries, are developing countries, Xi said both sides are at a similar stage of development thus providing opportunities for each other. Cooperation between China and Latin American countries conforms to the trend of the times and is the common aspiration and choice of both sides, he said. China-Latin America cooperation has been mutually beneficial and greatly promoted economic development and improvement of the people's livelihood in Latin American countries, Xi said. Medina expressed admiration for China's achievements in development and poverty reduction. Noting that the establishment of diplomatic ties with China is completely in the interests of the Dominican Republic, Medina said his country is willing to develop closer ties with China and deepen the friendship of the two peoples. "The Dominican Republic hopes to promote cooperation with China under the Belt and Road Initiative, in such areas as trade, infrastructure construction, energy, electricity and tourism," Medina said. After the meeting, the two leaders witnessed the signing of bilateral cooperation documents. SAO PAULO, October 18 -- The state of Sao Paulo is on the cusp of an unprecedented water crisis stemming in part from one of the worst droughts in decades, leaving millions scrambling to find clean water sources. On Friday, the city of Sao Paulo recorded its hottest temperature in more than 71 years, and 70 cities in the state are facing extreme drought, with 30 cities already on some sort of water rationing. The problem stems from a lack of water at the Cantareira, a complex of reservoirs and small dams built in the 1970’s that are the primary source of water for more than 10 million people in the state. The water levels at the Cantareira are now below four percent, the lowest in recorded history, and estimates on when it could totally dry range from November to March of next year. A visit to the town of Nazare Paulista revealed how bad things are, with the water lines under bridges visible, and abandoned cars appearing from the mud of what was once underwater. In May, just a few weeks before the World Cup, and with the water levels nearing 10 percent, officials released what they called an emergency "dead volume" reserve of water into the Cantareira to boost volumes back up to above 20 percent. But with almost no rain, it went down to record lows. Officials are now debating if they want to release a second round of reserve water, as there are disagreements over whether it is healthy for drinking. Re-using sewage water The state of Sao Paulo is larger than the UK, has a population of 44 million equal to Kenya, and a local economy of nearly $700bn equal to the Netherlands. Residents of Itu, an old and historic municipality in Sao Paulo state, told Al Jazeera they had no other choice than to re-use sewage water to flush their toilets. On Friday, dozens of people appeared at a local ravine overgrown with shrubs, all desperate to get any water they could from an obscure water pipe, the only source in their neighbourhood. SEOUL, September 15 -- A South Korean fisherman has found a suspected North Korean drone near a frontline island south of the rivals' disputed sea border, military officials said. The wreckage, without a wing, engine or camera, was recovered when it got caught in his net off Baengnyeong island, a South Korean defence ministry spokesman said. "Its shape and colour were similar to those of the unmanned aerial vehicles discovered earlier," he said. In March and April, South Korea retrieved crashed drones equipped with cameras in three different places, including Baengnyeong island and the northern border city of Paju. Military officials said their memory chips contained pictures of border areas and the capital Seoul, including the presidential palace. After a joint investigation with US experts, Seoul claimed to have secured "smoking gun" proof that the three recovered drones were flown from North Korea and had been pre-programmed to fly over South Korean military installations. North Korea angrily denied any involvement and accused the South of "fabricating" the evidence. Source: Agencies |
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