Posted by uspostU.S.Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
US President Barack Obama arrived in Seoul on Wednesday ahead of a Group of 20 (G20) summit due to start the following day in the South Korean capital. Obama left Indonesia, one of his stops on his 10-day tour of Asia, several hours earlier than scheduled because of fears that ash from the erupting Mount [...]
Over 200 flights and many overland shipping routes were canceled on Tuesday as Typhoon Kompasu passed through Okinawa, Japan. Over 6,860 passengers were stranded at airports, reported Bloomberg. Japan Airlines, the country’s biggest carrier, said the typhoon would not affect flight operations on Wednesday. Neighboring islands, concerned about the impact from the typhoon, also canceled [...]
Xinhua news agency quoted “relevant” government sources as saying the plane that crashed a day earlier may have been North Korean, noting its pilot was killed but otherwise damage was minimal. In South Korea, the Yonhap news agency quoted intelligence sources as saying the plane was a North Korean MiG fighter jet that crashed shortly [...]